Got My Flock On!

[V8Wedgehead]

It's been what........too long and a another Targa Newfoundland missed. I did manage to get something done to the car that I was not going to do myself and you guys here know what happens........you end up doing things yourself. I flocked my dashboard to cut down on glare and reflected light and it was not as hard as I thought it was going to be! It came out really nice in the end and cost me about $40.00 in materials and I still have enough left to do 2 more dashes!



I ended up filling in the little tray-recess on the top of the dash above the glove box door. The works cars deleted it so why not follow their lead? You can tell at all there was anything there!




Michael
1980 RALLY TR8 FHC #0020

[Beans]

Very nice [8D]

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[DNK]

Steve-

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[:)][:D]

Don
"No More Cars For You"
71 TR6- Perpetual Stick a Wedge In It
80 TR7 V8 Kick in the pants

[Spectatohead]

It looks flocking great. [:D]

Jim Clark
'80 TR8
'97 Maxima 5spd

[DNK]

Somebody had to say it!

Don
"No More Cars For You"
71 TR6- Perpetual Stick a Wedge In It
80 TR7 V8 Kick in the pants

[V8Wedgehead]

Stevie-I bought a duck hunting decoy flocking kit with 2lbs of black flocking, applicator bottle and directions. I had to buy Bulldog Adhesion Promoter and Duplicolor satin trim paint. I sanded the dash areas to be flocked with an orbital sander and 150 grit paper. Then wiped it down with wax and grease remover. Taped off the edges and sprayed the adhesion promoter in 2 coats. I used an open plastic container to apply the flocking. Before the flocking I put a medium to heavy layer of trim paint immediately followed by putting on the flock. Give it about 15 seconds and remove the excess by blowing and shaking the part. This is the first coat. I sprayed a heavy layer over the flocking on the whole area and got it good and saturated and again immediately applied the flocking and removed extra. Touch up is easy but you have to be careful.

Michael
1980 RALLY TR8 FHC #0020

[DNK]

Whoa!! that's not cloth??

Don
"No More Cars For You"
71 TR6- Perpetual Stick a Wedge In It
80 TR7 V8 Kick in the pants

[V8Wedgehead]

It's all micro fiber aka flocking!

Michael
1980 RALLY TR8 FHC #0020

[Hasbeen]

Not only does it look good, it should also reduce the heat reflecting off the shiny plastic, into the drivers face in hot weather.

A much cheaper way of doing it, than fitting air conditioning as I did.

Hasbeen.

[FI Spyder]

OK, now where's the fluffy dice hanging from the mirror.[:p]



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[silverseven]

what da flock !!

Ron.

[Vegas_M]

Well I'll be flocked!

Sure do like it though. [:D]

M

Martin

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[reychris]

Had my dash done a year ago and still looking good.
Stops a lot of the squeaks from the plastic rubbing together as well.



Chris

[darrellw]

Hi Chris,

Is that embossed leather/vinyl over the glove box? Looks cool.

One things I've started doing is putting some Dynamat inside the plastic dash pieces. Seems to help dampen the resonance and quiet things down.

-Darrell

Darrell Walker
66 TR4A IRS-SC CTC67956L
81 TR8 SATPZ458XBA406206
Vancouver, WA, USA