We're here to help and we speak 13 languages in our team: French, English, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Catalan, Mandarin Chinese and Korean! If leaving these parts in place will not damage them during the repair, you should at least cover them with paper to protect from dust and aerosol overspray. If you have a repair kit, go ahead and use the mini heat iron which will be included with the other items.

To make the most of your sugru during this hack why don't you see if you can do one of these quick hacks at the same time. A bristle brush works well, too, but air pressure will do a better job of blowing out loose foam and plastic particles.You need a product that will adhere and hold to the dash and is thick enough to fully conceal the repair underneath. Gently roll the stamp on the filled in holes, applying gentle pressure, enough to make an impression without squashing the sugru out of place. You should keep channeling through each crack until you have penetrated far enough into the foam so that you can no longer see any separation. Shake the can for a minute and spray a light coat over the entire dash, including those areas with no undercoating.

Special attention should also be paid to covering the three windshield vents in the top of the dash if you choose not remove them from below. When finished, the filler should still cover the edges of the vinyl so as to keep them buried under the filler. If you fail to do this step correctly or choose not to use the recommended prep solution, the surface filler will not adhere properly and eventually, will peel off your dash.Once the color has been reached use very small amounts of black and white to achieve the shade that you desire. In some cases, touch-ups may not leave a texture the same as the rest of the dash and a light re-spray of the entire dash is recommended. That the section of dash that juts out fits well into the bend of the plastic piece and 2) the edges of the plastic trim pieces hang off the edges an equal amount (see below).

Some of these products contain high VOCs, so be sure to wear the proper respirator and spray only in a well-ventilated area. Wipe down the entire dash again and if there are any high spots from the welding stick, you can either re-melt it to reduce its height or sand it down. The coating then becomes hard, brittle, and can no longer expand or contract in relation to the temperature. TIP: While colour mixing and working sugru in your fingers, sugru will get warm and this makes it more sticky.

The dash itself is originally a plastic type of material over a thin layer of foam which gives a bit of push. Be careful in how you tape off this area, as you can ruin the finished top coating if a piece of tape gets stuck onto the dash surface.

This acts as a release agent so you can get the texture off the surface without sugru sticking to it. DO NOT use thick coats of filler or expect to completely fill a weld in one pass; too much product laid down at once will require major sanding to knock down high spots, which are inevitable when using this dash filler. Keep the tip of the iron on one side of the stick just long enough to soften it up and then flip the stick so that the melted side is now facing into the groove. Irregularities in the shape of the dash may require you to build-up more texture in some areas than others.Also, be careful not to mark the paint or gouge the undercoating when putting the dash components back in place.