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These are pics of my fix for the dash warp. Anybody that has seen my car knows that it was so bad that the dash touched the windshield. All I did was get the vent piece off a pre 98.....trimmed as necessary and I screwed it in.

It defintely looks A LOT better!

Before:

After:

What do you think? Anybody who wants any more info or pics let me know.

Does your defroster still work?? I see batting through the slot in that one "after" picture...

Originally posted by TourDeForce:
Does your defroster still work?? I see batting through the slot in that one "after" picture...

It works a lot better. Before my defroster BARELY worked.

You can see it because of the angle of the pic.

Dash looks good! I like your gauges too

I need to get a cover for my steering wheel like that, where'd you get it?

looks good

Originally posted by ZetecChris:
looks good

I need to get my dash done soon.

i need to do something to mine

I wanna see what the pre 98 defroster vent looks like outside the car, i guess I don't understand the diff. (no, i've NEVER looked inside a pre-98)
Also, did you have to remove your dash to do this? I'd imagine ya did.

interesting fix

i gotta do something to mine that i just got

think the recall is still good?

It's nice seeing SVT guages on Zetec. Looks good.

I don't understand what you did. My dash warp is worse than yours in my 00 SVT and I would love to do something about it. Is the dash from a pre 98 different from a 98+? I would like to see an after picture from the same angle as your first picture.

we need more pics hector!! it looks like you may be on to something very cool.

Looks very good; nice job Hec

What's dash warp?

awsome, i love the tan with red

wish i had tan

I will get more pics.

And I'm still waitin on those pics!!! PUHLEEEZE!

Originally posted by Sl33stak:
And I'm still waitin on those pics!!! PUHLEEEZE!

Still!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh and a howto would be nice while i'm begging.

Originally posted by Sl33stak:

Originally posted by Sl33stak:
And I'm still waitin on those pics!!! PUHLEEEZE!

Still!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh and a howto would be nice while i'm begging.

Raining right now.....I will take some pics tomorrow.

More pics as promised!

Looking GOOD Hec! I had a friend up the street pull my glass out(it was alot easier to get to the dash that way) and use high temp epoxy and @ 10 black screws in the plastic vent to hold it down. He put the screws into the metal support frame under the dash so it shouldn't be going anywhere soon. They're pretty flush so it doesn't look all ghetto and mess.

Speaking of your SVT guages since they're 160 and regulars are 130 doesn't that mess your speedo up bad or did you have it calibrated on dyno or something?

Originally posted by kontour_sev6:
Looking GOOD Hec! I had a friend up the street pull my glass out(it was alot easier to get to the dash that way) and use high temp epoxy and @ 10 black screws in the plastic vent to hold it down. He put the screws into the metal support frame under the dash so it shouldn't be going anywhere soon. They're pretty flush so it doesn't look all ghetto and mess.

Speaking of your SVT guages since they're 160 and regulars are 130 doesn't that mess your speedo up bad or did you have it calibrated on dyno or something?

Thanks.

I did the whole cluster....not just the face. The speed is pretty accurate....maybe 1 mph off.

Sweet, I'll have to check that out.

Mine was covered under recall by ford, you sure your not elligible for recall, or has it run out?

not only does the recall not cover it, the extended warranty doesn't either.

Wow, that looks awesome. I really need to do this, as my dash warp seemed to get a lot worse the last couple of weeks with these 110 degree heat indexes.

Thanks Hector, i just want some info on what it takes to do this exchange.

Originally posted by Sl33stak:
Thanks Hector, i just want some info on what it takes to do this exchange.

Will type up a How To a little later.

Originally posted by LocoSCZ:

Before:

omg look at the rice behing the car (not kim) all that vinyl makes me sick.

Originally posted by lsneo:

Originally posted by LocoSCZ:

Before:

omg look at the rice behing the car (not kim) all that vinyl makes me sick.

The funny thing is almost all of those stickers on that cabinet in the backround were from parts I bought for my car!

rice i tell u rice

I see you've put a lot of money into this car but you still have the ANCO wiper blades on your car. How often do you replace them? Every other week? those blades suck. You should really invest in some higher quality blades. They aren't as nearly as expensive as most of the things you've done with it. Maybe get a set of Bosch blades or even Rain-X blades.

I don't know about you, but I don't appreciate a streaky windshield.

-just a tip.

way to revive a 4 month old post to give someone some smack talk. this my friend is for you...

Best yet, he doesn't own that car anymore ...

Yeah...I own Anco's too...your right they do suck, but Advance ain't open at 6:30 in the AM like WallyWorld is. And I work nights SUCKA!!!

Come change my blades dude!

Dumb question, where are the screws?

1 in each corner of the dash by the windshield.