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dash board Suede bubbling up?
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 4:42 pm
by ninja
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
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 4:56 pm
by Shug
Buy an S1 with no silly suede stuff to come off?
Re: dash board Suede bubbling up?
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:05 pm
by Gareth
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?
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:09 pm
by ninja
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
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:24 pm
by Gareth
Well, I'm gonna do it..
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:26 pm
by ninja
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
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:35 pm
by Rich H
Thin super glue, try a model shop, they sell differing viscosities (sp?)
HTH
Rich
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 6:14 pm
by The_Rossatron
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"
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:21 am
by ninja
does that mean that murry's will fix it for free?
ninja
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 3:00 pm
by ninja
done
see technical forum
ninja