Hi just a shout out for any owners in scotland I stupidly glued my taxi radio holder to dashboard  damaged more by myself cutting into dash trying to remove after 3yrs made a right mess of it as u will see from photos phoned a couple of company's who do mobile repairs but didn't want to attempt it my mechanic who is my m8 was willing to change over dashboard if I got another but didn't want the expense/hassle or live with it and just glue another sat nav mount over it got in touch with Tony from Magic mend through Facebook who is mobile and managed to get it repaired  as near as poss for £100 probably no one as daft as me but for any interior damage worth knowing

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3 minutes ago, gon said:

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@Darm Very nice repair, your guy has skills.

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1 minute ago, Tolpol62 said:

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That is a very neat repair. 

Wow amazing repair 

I'm sure all the materials will have dried up in the intervening 43 years but for one of my first cars I bought a vinyl repair kit that had pots of different coloured heat cure vinyl compound plus graining papers, you would fill the tear with the compound using a backing mesh if on a seat etc, then cure it with a hot iron through the graining paper, there was even some moulding compound for taking a mould of a stitched seam or other detail to replicate it.

 

No doubt the guy was using something similar, colour match looks good but the graining not so much so,  maybe he didn't have a suitable transfer paper.

 

The dash on my Yeti was reconditioned after an airbag deployment which leaves a big jagged hole in the top of it, I challenge anyone to see where it has been repaired & a year later it has not faded or sunk, the whole unit has been texture sprayed as you can see a blue primer at the hidden return edges, the texture looks identical to an original dash, I thought I would have trouble fitting the instrument binnacle as it was a tight fit on the old dash and the extra spray thickness I expected to cause problems but it didn't.

 

It must have been the same process as used on the new mouldings, it was done in Poland, you look up underneath and where the spring loaded deployment hatch has been reattached with lockwire it looks a typical bodge but the visible finishing is beyond any criticism.