Tremendous job! However "super easy" isn't how I would personally describe removing a dashboard.

I thought I was the innovator of Bondo dash repair! I did it 10 years ago on Honda AZ600 dash top, came out great then black SEM Bumper Coater. Try Krinkle Paint for heavy texture. If you spray satin clear on top you will get the matte finish.

this is why i watch your videos, learning new stuff is good for the noggin.

That looks great! Since you shot this a year ago, any chance you have an update on how the dash is doing?

Back in the early 1980's, my first real job was at Vinylsmith Repair in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The local used car lots kept us extremely busy. Back then, it mostly was GM vehicles that kept us busy. The Camaro door handle, arm rest and dash, the Chevy pickup dash and arm rests.

As a retired professional educator, I was humbled by a lesson shown here done so well. I followed every procedure. Every question I had was answered within seconds by your structured, systematic, methodical explanation. What is so laudatory here is teaching this way, I know, is a splendid labor of love shown in caring enough for your audience to anticipate their questions. I know too that you are teaching as all of us learned mechanix the art, science, tech, logistics, chemistry, economics, . . . it takes to do stuff like this routinely, within budget, all the time, no matter whut. This is tuf thing to do at all and you make it a walk in the park, so to speak - mission accomplished. Bravo maestro!

On the edges of existing gashes to be filled be it metal or plastic or in this case vinyl, I always add some insurance holes drilling in a 1/4” from the edge giving the bondo a place to push through and mushroom in behind it locking the patch area in better than just counting on the rough surface for adherence. THAT dash came out awesome. One could say it’s the newest & shiniest item on that ride😉Great work as usual. It’s refreshing to see someone else who believes in waste not want not using their hands and mind to revamp the old and keep it alive. That’s what I love about your channel, you’ve got the Midas touch using those frugal fingers lol! 👍🏼👍🏼

To reduce chance of the bondo cracking, there's a type called "short strand". It would have been ideal for the thicker applications such as some of the cracks being filled in this dash. Another type called "long strand" is especially for bridging gaps and probably would have been a good choice for the speaker holes in this dash. Both short and long strand body fillers remain flexible and adhere better than plain bondo. They have fiberglass strands mixed in, which give them more strength. But the stranded bondos don't sand and finish well, so they're usually used under a layer of standard bondo. Personally I would have used a flat paint or, even better, truck bed liner for a tougher matte coating with some texture. That can be sprayed or rolled on. It also can be tinted to just about any color.

That came out Great! I used raptor liner on my 72 bronco dash, rolled it on with a dollar tree mini foam roller, gave it pretty good texture, I first sanded the cracks level with a belt sander and filled them with spray foam, but it had too many big bubble voids in it, so I used the low expansion foam spray was better for sanding and forming.

It looks fantastic. Maybe in the near future you can show us an update? Curious to know how this holds up in the long term?

I clicked on this video thinking it was a joke. I was amazed at the quality and simplicity of the repair. Well done video!

You put an insane amount of work on that dash. I would have tapped out in just pulling it out. You are the man!

Probably nothing I would ever do but interesting to watch a master craftsman.

This video gives me hope for my "68 Mercury Commuter - it will be LOTS of bondo and whatever else I can figure out to build up to the original "shape" (it is basically unusable). Gave me good ideas, good stuff :) ..

"This is your dash on crack!" Hahahaha!!!! You really have a strong ability to visualize what something can look like and set your brain for the goal. Really great technique!!

Simply the best channel on KZfaq, keep on the great work

I guess it’s true what they say “Bondo and paint make it something it ain’t “

I miss the days of the steel dash you never have to worry about it cracking

Want to, Failure is NOT a option. Great job,thanks for the video.

I like your method of repairing you seem to go the extra mile to make a good repair. when I went to furniture finishing class the teacher told us the worst compliment is someone coming up to you and say nice patch job

OMG... what an artist you are!!!!

My dog chewed up a part of my dash board. Thank you!

I've seen those dashes before. Mk1 caddy dashes were back for cracks. Thanks for the info on what to do. Gonna be fixing my mk2 scirocco dash soon.

You never cease to amaze me

One piece at a time, and it didn't cost me much over a dime. Excellent as always !

Wow! That came out amazing. I'd love to see a short update video after you've driven around to see if the bondo cracks or holds up where it meets the vinyl. Nice work!

Super easy DIY that's affordable and eliminates possibility of cracking is a dash skin

This was an AMAZING intro to bondo work with interior paneling. Also I like that you play with your dog. Dog seems happy. I'm happy.

Watching this video was time well spent. Thank you.

Maybe this is a good place to proclaim my love for washable sand paper. It's pretty awesome.

Nice job Moe.I’ve actually used good stuff spray foam and grind it down with a small air grinder then fill in the air bubble holes with bondo. Had good luck with that technique.

Good job man. Dang, that turned out soooo much better than I would have thought possible. Thanks for recording and posting this how to vid. Awesome dog.

Watching this have me a flashback to the 80s when we'd do an entire dash on our lowered custom mini trucks to get a super slick smooth custom painted dash...

Best video on the internet

It looks great Moe. Can you make a video on how to fix a cloth head liner on a DODGE Caravan WITHOUT removing the whole thing from the car?

That bit of information is going to save me big in the future thanks for sharing

It definitely does work, I've also done it before, and then when I got it flat it flocked it. I really like the look of the flocked dashes, especially in track cars and such. The hand flocking kit where you put the flocking on by hand works pretty good. I dig it. Nice work man.

Bondo or bog is best used at a minimal amount, I'm not sure if it's still available but there use to be a product that was 2 part foam mixture that sets similar to dashboard foam , in either case it is better to re skin the entire dashboard and have all fresh material as the aged material can continue to crack in other areas.

I redid the interior of my grandads 76 dodge prospector extended cab farm package. No headliner vinyl arm rests dash etc. I refinshed the door panels with a rough stone look. Made arm rests out of back walnut with a southwestrn design inlay on the edge. I used fleckstone to cover the panels. The inlay set in black walnut replacing the chrome strip from left to right across the dash then copied the contour of the plastic dash with one big piece of black walnut. Made an over gead console with the inlay has scissor lift radar detector and storage. The backseat area has fold out seats from the left and right. I fleckstones the plastic paneling and replaced the chrome with a strip of walnut with the inlay. Did away with manual locks and manual windows. Gonna shave the door handles next.

Color me impressed. Creative body filler use. I love it. Great job, thanks for sharing.

Your a freaking wizard of all automotive! I bet there is peoples heads exploding because of this video but I love it ! Good job

Great video I'll never doubt you again.

I thought you were going to feather that knife into your forearm! Awesome job!

I dare you to do a 2nd GEN dodge 🤣 Nice work brother.

Just bought a 81 caddy vw this is the dash! Super cool thanks for the video

I’m about to restore a dash. These vids are a great resource to get started. Thanks.

I like your ATTITUDE as much as I like your projects. Most folks would have wastefully chunked that dash. Not folks like you and me!

That’s pretty impressive, I’ve tried to fix mine in the past, this method blows me out of the water! Nice work!

Wow. I did not realize you could make it look so good. I would have put money on it. However, you completely knocked it out of the park. Well done.

Interesting technique and great results! I wonder if you could use spray foam to fill in the bigger gaps and then do Bondo over that? I've done that with wallboard and joint compound and it works great so long as you sand/scuff the foam so the other stuff can stick to it.

Very nice. I have had a couple of 69 Mach 1 dash cracks in the past. !5 years or more ago it was most of a thousand dollars for a new dash. The largest part of the job is getting the dash out and back in. Just a ton of fun, or maybe another F word. Again nice job.

Excellent work and thanks for the vid now I can fix the dash on my 64 Continental 🤟🏽

Looks fantastic compared to some of the repairs I've seen. And much faster/cheaper than having it wrapped with leather. Well done sir

SEM sells a texture spray specifically for adding texture back to repaired vinyl dashes and vinyl trim pieces, prior to using their vinyl spray color which comes in most original colors.

Recovering something that most would send to the auto wreckers. Well done as it shows that all vehicles can be maintained to last as long as they are kept up. The thing now with vehicles is just get a new one within 5 to 8 years as it seems to be worn out. It’s only worn out if you don’t fix it as it needs it. Old vehicles are usually fully depreciated and can be driven without a monthly or by weekly payment.

Incredible, thanks (running out to my '71 VW)

If the repair dont crack your a winner..........

That Bulldog is some good stuff. I would use it. It actually opens up the 'pores' of the surface so the paint will get a better tooth or grip. For any 'non-wear' vinyl any of those paints are fine, like you said. Used to be you could go to an automotive paint mixer and they could mix actual vinyl 'dye' which would have vinyl resins in it. Since the discontinuation of most lacquers it seems to have gone away. It was nice. Once you laid it down you really couldn't tell it was 're-dyed' and it was super durable. not like the original vinyl but sure a lot better than regular paint. Very flexible.

Did this do my 280z and it cracked again within a year... Did it again but used cans of spray foam to do the under layer and bondo on top and it works great.

great video. just repaired my dash from a 77 el camino using spray expanding foam and rubberized spray like on the infomercials, so far so good.

That's a great idea and fantastic results, thank you!

Every time I watch one of your vids I miss my heeler more and more. Great fix brother.

this is so funny to me cause I've been doing it this way since 2008 never knowing it was done this way, so to see someone else do it, well i no longer feel i'm cheating me or other people when i sell the vehicle. thx.

Good work now I can do my 1987 Monte Carlo dash

I love your positive can do attitude! Thanks!

An added trick to using body filler is add epoxy resin. This fill not only give you the same end result when dry but you'll get less pinholes when dry. Also depending on how much resin you use in the body filler making it thinner it will self level. A rule of thumb with the mixing ratio is 10% resin to the amount of filler at this ratio you will not need to add resin hardener when you mix everything.

hey Moe, that was very cool. I did not know Bondo would flex when warm. This reminded me of fiberglass boat repair. I also did not know about the hammer paint. You could do a whole video just on different paints and I would watch. Back in the nineties I was dating a woman that put vinyl daisies all over her dashboard and even rooftop to cover cracks and dings. The dash on my 94 Corolla looks new even though it sits in the Florida sun, it will probably outlast the rest of the car as a lot of plastic parts are failing. I like how you showed the finished item at the beginning, I need to do that more. Thumbs up!😎👌

Awesome job and diy instructions. My brother used a dollar store pizza cutter to make lines

Nice work, 65 Ford! Looks as good as new to me!

Looks great. My '79 F150 dash pad has been on my todo list for a few years now. This video has given me the confidence to finally refinish it. I've always wanted to try the truck bed liner texture. Just have to decide if I'm going to top coat it or leave it black.

OLD LEATHER SMITH here, very nice, great job, considering what I do 4 clients I would cover it with leather, infact the 1 time I did I carved the leather before installing, still think you did a great job, God's BLESSINGS ✝️⚾🙃

Looks a 1,000 percent better. Good job.

When I was in high school my friend’s brother had an old Saab with the driver’s side door caved in… instead of pulling it out, he filled the whole thing with MANY applications of Bondo; the damn door weighed about 25 lbs more than the passenger side! It felt like opening and closing a bank vault!

👍 Nice. I have a worn out dash I’m an 88 Trooper. I’ll try this.

"This is your dash on crack!" LMFAO! You forced me to watch a beautiful job. Thank you, sir.

You did a great job! Thanks for the tips!

Pretty incredible repair, very impressive work. Only thing I would do different is use SEM vinyl dye as the color coat instead of spray can. It dries more Matte finish

turned out really professional looking. I hope it lasts for you. I typically only get about 6-12 months in the Texas sun before rattle can paint fades which is why I've been putting an activated clear on top of everything I paint

Fabric and fiberglass resin works great also for dashboard repairs

Never even seen your channel before. Great video. I believe I will do my '78 F100 dash the same way. Subbed.

My 80 Ford Courier decomposed in Mesa and Williams AFB Arizona in the 80s. The plastic disintegrated. I'm not so picky, it's still that way :)) I might try this. COOL!

Great job think I will try that on my square body pickup it heck of lot cheaper than buy new one thanks a lot

Cut all the vinyl off with the foam. Close the unwanted openings the skim coat bondo. Paint to suit. Do not get me wrong. Beautiful job. Love it.

These are the type of videos that are what we need more of fixings things that would actually cost you a lot, i know that people could go to a junk yard and find one that wasnt as bad as yours but fixing things yourself makes you proud and who doesn't like being proud of what they did, you are very good at what you do there my friend.

Great job. I never knew you could do that.

Looks awesome man! Good work. I was thinking, if you don't like the sheen, use a flat clear coat. You would have a little more protection and the sheen you desire.

Great work! Thanks for sharing.

Love the channel and all of the information you share. How about an update video on some of the repairs you have made like the dash and how they stood up over time.

Good work. Well done

Another great video. I've a dashboard on a couple of buses to refurbish after very poor past repairs from other companies. It's hard plastic (ABS?) . I deferred the job on the basis that I couldn't replicate the ingrained pattern in the plastic- but as sixtyfiveford rightly points out, after painting there's probably none of the pattern going to show through anyway, and even if it does, it will look a lot better than it does now. This channel was a real find.

Absolutely excellent looking dash. I'm glad I seen your video. After watching this I plan to do one of my trucks like that. Great video.👍👍👍

WAY better than factory! I remember Armor-all burning my eyes out. Must be good for the system to bring all that blurred vision and wheezing on. And I like the smell of Bondo but don't have a bad dash now BUT THANKS for the fix. Had NO idea! Your Wabbit will hug you but Ginger will have to take another wide in it! GBWYall!

Love your Heeler. I have a blue one.

Great job dash looks perfect

Excellent work thank you for sharing this

I filled the cracks on my dash with Bondo on my old beetle but then I also put fiberglass over it. I'm hoping the fiberglass will make it a more long-term or permanent repair but only time will tell.

That was fantastic! And Thankyou for the plastic repair instruction too in another video

Cool tip on the texture, really good video brotha

Repair looks great dude.

I use minimum expanding spray foam. It fills in and then can be cut back to add in the Bondo.