Dash peeling

[FuzzyDunlop]

My buddys dash has peeling on it. Is there anything he can do?

Mid 2000's Honda Accord

 

[NutBucket]

Use a sunshade. Otherwise, not much you can do...maybe glue down the part that's peeled up?

 

[FuzzyDunlop]

really? nothing to be done... hmmm

 

[mindless1]

There are kits where you take some vinyl caulking like material and squeegee it into the crack then flatten the whole area down with tape till it sets, but it wouldn't look anywhere near perfect and wouldn't keep the rest of the dash, with similar UV damage, from continuing to crack, but might reduce the rate that an already peeling section continues to peel further. Nothing is going to make it look like it never happened, especially on a faux leather grain like that, it would have a texture mismatch as well as slight color mismatch.

I don't know how that piece is constructed, if you could take the dash apart and remove the faux material from that section and reupholster that area with new material, which isn't likely to color match but a little off might just seem like it could have been meant to be that way... or if there is a foam backing it could have pretty much disintegrated by now and the complexity in actually doing it is more than just writing about it, but only you can see if the panel can be isolated and there is clearance to reupholster or not.

 

[Subyman]

Looks like its the UV protectant layer, hard to tell on my screen.