Dash Pad Or no Dash Pad is the ?

[hotrod ford]

for flistr8, the dash pad has about 12 or nuts mounting to the inside of the dashboard. its kinda time consuming but should'nt take that long to remove it

[truckguy]

I put mine in last week. Like hotrod ford said it is time consuming you have to take out the radio, ash tray, glove box, and dash. there a 14 3/8 nuts all over. then I put it on my 1 ton I only put on 9 nuts back on. I only take out the dash and glove box and put the ones back on that I could reach help out a lot and saved time.
Kyle

[flistr8]

Many thanks. I'm thinking if I can R & R it myself, it won't cost me that much to get it recovered at the upholstery shop.

[averagef250]

I think they look much better with the pad. Ya spend a couple hundred thousand miles behind the wheel of bumps and an interior without a dashpad is just wierd.

[rjewkes]

the 4x4 i'm buying from Fordfool has a smoothed dash but i think i'm gona try to cut the defrostvents back open. Just incase i have to drive during the winter.

[Supermike]

I prefer the look of the dash pad. Not that the dash looks bad without it (esp. if you fill in the holes), but as someone else said it just looks more "finished" with it.

ALSO... if you plan to have passengers in your truck and don't plan to install shoulder belts, put in a dash pad for safety. Someone hitting his/her head on the metal dash during an accident would be bad news, compared to hitting it on a pad.

[1971fordcustom]

Well I wont have to meany people rideing with me just A cute girl that lives down the road . And then on the car runs. It wont be like im driveing that thing ever day I all ready have a hay barn to put it in right down the road and to get back home I can just get on my horse and he will take me back home . But tomarow I got to go over to the guys house and ill take to him about it. I for got the cute gril drives a 68 f 100 and its red but it need a lot of work and it dont have a dash but the holes are not welded up well its really not hers its her step dads truck my best friend that is 30 years old . Im the only one in this town that has a 71 f 100 well im about the only one in town that has a old ford. All the other teens have lil Chevys. But I under stand where you are comeing from with hiting your head on the dash. But with that you have a better % of going thure my windshild. I can push that thing in and out but with the rubber there was no way for me and my boss at the glass shop to put any glue on it other ways it woud not fit. Any ways I want to say thank you ever one for all the help and Ideas.

[theogre5150]

Here is a picture of my with a clean dash pad.

[1971fordcustom]

LOL there a lot dang better then LMC JUNK. I was talking to the guy thats painting my truck and after looking on hear at what ever one saying Im going to put a pad in it. + he can get it for 120 And not pay for shipping. And for my seats and headliner its going to be all back and Chrome Same with the door panels but there not going to be that cheep looking abs stuff. And for the paint its that gold that ford only had for 2 years 71 and 72. In the 70s a lot of people had that paint. Now days you dont ever see it . The last things I got from lmc was soo bad all the rubbers for the glass was not right so I had to cut them where the glass woud fit into the slot. The anti rattle kit after 4 weeks thay was rusting bed bolts was wrong. Now ever thing ive got from dc was great no problems what so ever.

[rjewkes]

And remember gentelmen its not good to have crack on dashpad police might arrest its nice.


cracs in the vinyl suck too.

[rjewkes]

woops i can seee IE7 is having its fun this morning.

[oldbiker]

I tried the " search" and it got me here...has anybody tried the "dash topper" that NPD offers??

[MadMaxetc]

I tried the " search" and it got me here...has anybody tried the "dash topper" that NPD offers??

The conclution here is that it is better than a badly cracked and faded dash, but not anything near that the original. You can clearly tell that it is a cover and it does not fit all that well.

Since you have to look at it every time you drive the truck I would get a new one or a good used one.

I would even recover a cracked one before using the cover.

[oldbiker]

I tried the " search" and it got me here...has anybody tried the "dash topper" that NPD offers??

The conclution here is that it is better than a badly cracked and faded dash, but not anything near that the original. You can clearly tell that it is a cover and it does not fit all that well.

Since you have to look at it every time you drive the truck I would get a new one or a good used one.

I would even recover a cracked one before using the cover.

many thanks, I had a excellent one I hauled from Ohio & son-in-law tossed it as trash ..Oh well, water over the dam I guess..

[Pipes71]

I was going to go the no dash pad route, then the guy who is going to do the body work and me were talking and he mentioned, how would I see when the sun reflects off the shiney bright red paint?