Dashboard - 2008 Fiesta

mandymoo72

Hi there

My fiancee has bought a 2008 Fiesta Zetec Blue and the dashboard is blue - is there companies that will respray the dash or can you buy a new black dash - this would help make the inside better.

any advice appreciated

Hintza

Sure; just go to Ford and buy a new dashboard. It will cost.

Hope your fiancee isn't reading this he might decide the cheaper option in the long term will be to get a new fiancee.

If my OH suggested this she would be wearing the dashboard...lol

goldspanners

mandymoo72 wrote: »

Hi there

My fiancee has bought a 2008 Fiesta Zetec Blue and the dashboard is blue - is there companies that will respray the dash or can you buy a new black dash - this would help make the inside better.

any advice appreciated

why did he buy this one? theres millions of fiestas for sale im sure. could he not have bought one with a normal dash?
he could just change the car.
swapping dashboards isnt a nice job to do.

as a side note i quite like the fiesta with the matching red dash and seats.

Petree

My OH has that too, it makes no sense at all, most is black with silver (which looks boring but nice) then this hulking great blue bit around the dash, I wasn't with him when he bought it!

It will be a pig to get out for painting or switching, with connections left right and centre, to change the matrix for the internal heater requires removing quite a bit of the dash and thats an 6-8 hour job minimum and it will never go back right with squeaks and noises all the time so would guess about the same plus painting time (plastic is a nightmare to paint too)

Suggest you either;

* live with it - I do and you do notice it less as time goes by
* sell/swap the car
* start buying lots of pine fresh trees and fluffy dice to disguise it! :rotfl:

maninthestreet

Buy one of the indelible black marker pens.

gilbert_and_sullivan

Why not leave it blue, makes a change from the millions of boring cloned cars out there driven by the millions of equally boring cloned people.

harveybobbles

mandymoo72 wrote: »

Hi there

My fiancee has bought a 2008 Fiesta Zetec Blue and the dashboard is blue - is there companies that will respray the dash or can you buy a new black dash - this would help make the inside better.

any advice appreciated

It's called the Fiesta Blue for a reason, duh................