I think the aluminium is too flashy for me and doesn't go well with my tan interior. Keep it or not?

 

take it out and give it to me!
edit: or ill buy it....

 

it doesnt blend too well with tan, wood trim would look better

 

Wood would look better. On a side note, my aluminum dash kit has been installed since July and it is already peeling, so I am going to be removing it soon as well.
Good luck,
Dan

 

I agree, wood is the move

 

I would agree with everyone here. Chrome usually looks a lot better with darker colors such as black. When you peel it off, while the sticky stuff be hard to remove or does it come along with it? Good luck

 

your interior looks just like mine, and i have the wood kit and it looks great, then just add a momo combat shifter to go with it, that looks really good

 

I used to have the aluminum trim......i LOVE the stock look over it now though and would never go back.

(I would give you that smile face with the little wave sign, but this computer is soooo anti-ad/firewall'd that I cant bring up the smilies window...LOL)

 

I say change to wood grain dash kit or try trading with somebody with their stock ones. It's a SOB to remove them, especially the sticky residue leftover.

 

i would trade but you live a long way away and we both would have to due w/out the dash pieces for a while and i dont think thats possible!

 

hey i have the same kit and on my interior... but my interior is black and tan... i have all the aluminum trim... even on the guages and a chrome shift ****... and a silver racing tack with all phantom gauges on a-pillar as well... i think it looks good... but that's just my opinion... besides... it's more unique... why do wood when everyone else has it? but i am just into being different anyways...

 

 

i bet you could take off the aluminum dash pieces real easy with the help of a blow dryer

 

Well IMHO, that "aluminum" dash is kinda ghetto. It just looks fake. If i were you, id go the route im going, since i too have a tan interior, im going with a carbon fiber AND true aluminum accents (shift ****, cd player) i think it will be a good. Just have to get my hands on a Carbon Fiber Dash Kit for a reasonable price...


Wood just doesnt look sporty...

 

CF IMHO looks the best with your color interior.

Ant

 

I think I'm going to pull it off and let it go for cheap.

 

When you remove it, you will most likely destroy some of the pieces. Plus the 3M tape isn't reusable, so the person who buys it is going to have to get creative in installing it. So trading it may be a better option.

 

It ain't easy at all. I just spent 3 days removing my wood kit that was on the car when I bout it last month. Even with a hair dryer, it leaves gobbs of adhesive behind. A real PITA! I decided to wet sand and paint. I'm much happier now.

David

 

the person who bought it could just remove the old tape and put some new 3m tape on it right?

 

Id imagine so

 

i have that same kit and it looks great in black but with your color interior, i would go with the chrome (thebigsadler's interior) or back to wood...not aluminum though, not crazy bad but not that good.

 

You can do that, but the tape is almost impossible to get off without damaging something. And the 3M tape used is rather expensive to get. You can get it at autoparts stores, but it's $6 per pack, and you'd need 5-6 packs of it to do a whole dash kit. That and it will take you many hours with an X-acto knife to trim and apply the tape. I know because when we do prototyping, we have to apply the tape like that and it's not a fun job.

 

hooktup98SE
how u have tan interior with black

did u paint over the brown dash , and turn it black ??

i was thinking the same then putting on a aluminum dash with a black dash board instead of brown and my tan interior, if u did that u have pics ??

 

you could always do black chrome....

 

Trung...YGM

 

dont even try to remove it, if you want to sell it, trade dash piecers

it comes off ok on the AC vents and stuff but the center dash it leaves alot of crap and even a heat gun doesnt help very much

 

This thread is mad old. Dash kit has been removed. You guys were correct, the kit was not reusable. Removal was pretty easy. I scratched up my dash pretty good because I did a sh!tty job.

 

do a tan to black interior swap and keep the dash kit..

 

Yeah I wish.. Too much time and money involved.