Dash trim

[Andy 74]

I am working on replacing old vinyl on the face of my dash and have found the vinyl is attached to a separate piece of steel and then that is attached to the aluminium trim.
Is this normal? Or is the vinyl normally glued directly to the aluminium? The car is a '73E

If its normal, i seem to be missing the steel bit the vinyl is glued to for the ignition part of the dash. Does anyone have one of these I can buy?

Cheers

Andrew

[MTemp]

It was the case with my 72E. I acquired some spare bits so I'll take a look, but don't recall a spare ignition section. I suppose they're not 'handed' as you can just flip them over.

Mick

[Andy 74]

Thanks Mick
I figured I would be able to flip it for RHD. Thanks for looking.

[Andy 74]

Any other thoughts on this? Has anyone pulling the vinyl trim off their ignition part of the dash?

[Bantam]

Andy

Not the one you are looking for but just for reference I have also found one of these pieces but I am afraid I don't know for sure what car/year it came off but think it may have been a LHD '69E.

[Fishcop]

Can't "flip 'em"... the LHD and RHD configurations are slightly asymetric.

Pretty sure it's only the radio plate that has the steel insert. I deleted my radio and replaced the plate with a solid piece cut from aluminium sheet. The ignition piece had vinyl glued directly to the aluminium extrusion.

[RSTarga]

I've done mine a couple of times. The vinyl is glued to a thin steel plate which is then glued to the aluminum. Be careful removing these as it is very easy to bend them and then they never fit right.

[pcivalero]

David or Anyone - currently my 73 only has the aluminum trim and I purchased vinyl to glue on to the car. I originally thought it would get glued directly onto the aluminum but after reading some posts - ARE there steel plates that the vinyl gets glued on to and THEN glued onto the aluminium? If so where can we source these steel plates?

Thanks!!

[moito]

David or Anyone - currently my 73 only has the aluminum trim and I purchased vinyl to glue on to the car. I originally thought it would get glued directly onto the aluminum but after reading some posts - ARE there steel plates that the vinyl gets glued on to and THEN glued onto the aluminium? If so where can we source these steel plates?

Thanks!!

the vinyl/steel unit is not glued to the aluminum....it is slidden into the aluminum trim

[fourteenten]

You need to find 0.75 mm thick steel to be exact. I have seen this steel plate in the glove box door alu trim as well.

Cees