dash board Suede bubbling up?

ninja · Post by **ninja** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 4:42 pm

the covering to my dash is bubbling up. this happened in the summer and i was kinda hoping that it would fix itself! but you guessed it, it's not gone back to it's normal flat profile. so there are a few bubbles.

what can i do to get these to go away? are they just air and i can maybe suck the air out and inject glue under it to stick it down again?

i don't really want to have to take the car to bits to fix this tbh. i know jkelly has done this but god it sounded like a lot of work and i've no garage!!

ninja

Post by **Shug** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 4:56 pm

Buy an S1 with no silly suede stuff to come off?

Gareth · Post by **Gareth** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:05 pm

ninja wrote:the covering to my dash is bubbling up. this happened in the summer and i was kinda hoping that it would fix itself! but you guessed it, it's not gone back to it's normal flat profile. so there are a few bubbles.

what can i do to get these to go away? are they just air and i can maybe suck the air out and inject glue under it to stick it down again?

i don't really want to have to take the car to bits to fix this tbh. i know jkelly has done this but god it sounded like a lot of work and i've no garage!!

ninja

Yeah, inject glue with a needle....know any junkies?

ninja · Post by **ninja** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:09 pm

was planning on using insulin syringes, they're very very thin and won't leave a visible hole.

so is this an idea or is it just bollox!

ninja

Gareth · Post by **Gareth** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:24 pm

Well, I'm gonna do it..

ninja · Post by **ninja** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:26 pm

hell so am i - might as well it's hardly going to make it any worse.

will give it a go at the weekend and let you know how much of a mess i make of it.

i'll have to think what glue to use tho as the needle is really really thin so araldite will never get through it. lol

ninja

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:35 pm

Thin super glue, try a model shop, they sell differing viscosities (sp?)

HTH
Rich

The_Rossatron · Post by **The_Rossatron** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 6:14 pm

I think this is one of those FOC fixes as they used to wrong glue at the factory or something on early S2s.

I have a warranty receipt somewhere regarding mine being sorted by the previous owner.

see here http://www.elises.co.uk/problems/s2/index.html and "Interior Finish"

ninja · Post by **ninja** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:21 am

does that mean that murry's will fix it for free?

ninja

ninja · Post by **ninja** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 3:00 pm

done

see technical forum

ninja

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dash board Suede bubbling up?

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