'69-'73 Replacement Dash @ Lakewell

[Eminence Gris]

… For sure, the Porsche OEM spare part is not ‘plug and play’ part.

Damn. Thank you for ‘taking one for the team.’

While we are on the topic of Turkish Porsche parts, I bought a set of their four door pockets and returned them. I would classify them as decent, but not appropriate for a high end restoration. The pockets are all plastic with the vinyl grain cast in to them. The top trim on the pop outs is too shiny. The upper portions of the fixed pockets are hard plastic, not rubber. I would say they are five footer parts. Also, they don’t come with hinges, and instead have large holes where the hinge rivets would go.

[Simonjjb]

One important point with these - you have to be very careful not to over tighten the nuts....or they will pull out.

[merbesfield]

Tried to install the ‘official’ Porsche replacement dashboard tonight on 1972 car. The 4 studs fit on the existing holes, but the shape around the clocks totally does not fit. The angle between the front and the top is much sharper, which make inside of the dashboard does not touch metal and when you tighten the bolts, these teared out of the dashboard. Instead of buying the ‘original’ at 1000€, perhaps better to have bought some cheap Turkish aftermarket at 350€, where the effort of making it fit would be similar - in the hope that we can repair the original and can make it fit.
For sure, the Porsche OEM spare part is not ‘plug and play’ part.

Well if the dashboard is anything like the sun visors I am not surprised. The official Porsche part was total crap.

[Longballa]

The last couple Porsche replacement dashes I've installed went pretty well but you don't want to over tighten. I've had to open up a couple holes slightly for the studs to come in straight and not get hung up on the metal of the car. You've got to take your time and go slow. The fit could be better towards the a pillars but they did improve the fit to the vents and fixed the speaker pattern.

Tried to install the ‘official’ Porsche replacement dashboard tonight on 1972 car. The 4 studs fit on the existing holes, but the shape around the clocks totally does not fit. The angle between the front and the top is much sharper, which make inside of the dashboard does not touch metal and when you tighten the bolts, these teared out of the dashboard. Instead of buying the ‘original’ at 1000€, perhaps better to have bought some cheap Turkish aftermarket at 350€, where the effort of making it fit would be similar - in the hope that we can repair the original and can make it fit.
For sure, the Porsche OEM spare part is not ‘plug and play’ part.

[JM9090]

An update on our journey to install the genuine Porsche replacement dash.




After a first attempt to install it and where we pulled out the screws out of the plastic, we started with a repair using 2 component glue to fit the screws back on the part.

We found 2 reason why the part did not fit well. The first reason was that around the edges of the oval of the gauges, the part was too narrow. There we grinded some material on the inside of the cover away, being carefull not to damage the front of it. After several grinding and fitting sessions, we got some acceptable result, but still we had a wide gap between the windscreen and the dashboard. This brought us to the second reason of not fitting well. When tightening the bolt, the part tumbles a little to the front, creating the gap. So we enlarged the bolt openings next to the oval of the gauges, so that the bolts would be a little bit higher. This made the inside angle of the dashboard better fitting to the metal base.
To obscure a little bit the gaps between the dashboard and the covers for the heating nozzles, we resprayed the metal base with black paint, but finally with the above adjustment actions we were able to close the gap rather well.

On our journey to have it fitted, we faced some other collateral damage. The plastic near the speaker corner is quite brittle where the plastic plug is fitted. Unplugging the dashboard during our grinding and fitting sessions, the plastic cracked. Here we made a metal reinforcement, trying to avoid that the outside cover would tear open on this spot.

Further adjustments we made at the opening for the speaker. The speaker seems to be a little bit larger than the opening between the screwholes for the cover. You can fit it by sliding it in, but once in, it becomes difficult to get it out (the brittle plastic of one screwhole broke, which we had to glue). So we grinded some material away of the plastic around the screwholes, enlarging a bit the opening, enabling easier access to build out the speaker.
Finally we shortened the screws of the speaker cover, in order to have the cover aligned with the dashboard.

This does not look to have been our best performance, but finally we can get back in the windscreen.

[denniso]

Anyone try this dash from Turkey? A dash and set of kneedpads for $700


https://www.bamboliltd.com/products/...aab819f7&_ss=r

[Eminence Gris]

Anyone try this dash from Turkey? A dash and set of kneedpads for $700


https://www.bamboliltd.com/products/...aab819f7&_ss=r

I bought their reproduction door pockets and sent them back.

I suspect the dash parts are ok for a super low budget flip.

[Haasman]

.... and looking carefully the illustrated dash is for a 1974 and later, it has the center vent.

[Eminence Gris]

.... and looking carefully the illustrated dash is for a 1974 and later, it has the center vent.

Center vent is ‘77 and later

[denniso]

Thanks Guys.

When if it's too good to be true, then it usually is.

Related thread on The Bird. Consensus was the dash required a lot of fitting, but at least one person got it to fit. A couple of folks are happy with the knee pads.

https://forums.pelicanparts.com/pors...mboli-ltd.html