Many of us have a cracked S13 dash. The options for fixing the cracks in place do not seem to last, and buying an uncracked dash can make you go mental when it finally cracks too, not to mention the going price is over $100 potentially plus high shipping. Here is another option.

I found an eBay seller from England who lists RHD S13 stitched leather wraps for the dash, console, A-pillars, door inserts, glove box and even seat belt receivers. http://www.ebay.com/usr/topgaiters?_trk ... 1436.l2754











Contacted via eBay messaging, and they do carry LHD - just request LHD in the comments when ordering. So I bought the dash cover and the console cover. Very fast replies to eBay messages and the parts shipped right out in days, and arrived a week later.













I previously recovered my door cards (and a spare set for practice - pictured), glove box and rear convertible panels with some semi-stretchy black check vinyl from WalMart. Super cheap, looks good - but unfortunately the Permatex "high temp" headliner spray contact adhesive I used lifted in the tight corners of the door cards so I am looking to redo them.



This time, I bit the bullet and paid $45 shipped for DAP Weldwood HHR Contact Adhesive, a whole gallon of it (no smaller sizes available). In stock and shipped out immediately from here: http://www.yourautotrim.com/noname37.html This is recommended by a bunch of people I trust including Toby Broadfield, a meticulous perfectionist who builds custom gauge clusters and instrument pods. His blog is worth checking out, here is one link: https://broadfield.wordpress.com/catego ... /interior/



I have a spare console and am currently looking for a cheap badly cracked spare dash, since I want to strip all the OEM vinyl & foam padding off it to make for a better fit around the vents etc. on recommendation from Mike at http://www.clearcorners.com - another perfectionist.

Watch this thread for my progress over the spring / summer. I am currently finishing up the car reassembly from my DIY paint job (see this thread: painting-a-240sx-t563111.html) once I get some temps in my garage over 60 degrees I can start working with the adhesives and finish the top and get going on the dash recover.

Comments, questions and suggestions welcome!

I surely hope this works out well for you! The red stitching on the dark leather is really classy! Looks like you have a really good adhesive, let us know if it lives up to its hype!

definitely going to keep my eye on this.

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Spare dash secured for $30. Extra console ready to go. Now I just need time and temperature.....