Scope Creep - one thing leads to another.....

[NC_John]

I know I'm preaching to the choir but I just have to vent....These 'effin trucks...

When I ordered my first set of parts for Blu last week I saw GMCPaul had "made in the USA" dash pads for a pretty reasonable price so I added one. My original blue one was trashed and looked terrible.

Well, it came in yesterday so after work I got to real work taking the original tore up pad off. I didn't realize so much of the dash had to come apart.

In the process of getting the old one off I busted the original cardboard glovebox while trying to remove it. Not surprising.

Then when I got the old pad off I noticed how lousy the dash looked between the pad and the windshield. That won't do. Start scrubbing to get it ready for paint. In that process I broke one of the defroster vents (brittle original plastic) and then the hose came apart under the dash (add those to the parts list now).

I'm painting the dash between the pad and windshield black with plasti-dip (http://www.plastidip.com/home_solutions/Plasti_Dip) to match the new dash pad. The wonderful thing about plasti-dip is if I want to go back to blue I can literally just peel this stuff off.

So the dash will look fresh and the delaminating windshield (all white at the bottom) will look like awful so I'll have to start looking for someone that can do a good job installing a new one. Sigh...more money. Then the instrument cluster will look tired compared to everything else. Then the rush will be on to get a nice steering wheel in there because the one in there now will look even worse.

With the interior gutted one of my seatbelts fell (just a couple inches) and the plastic cover broke on the floor. Sigh again. Need to order a set of seatbelts. Going to black anyway but this is ahead of schedule... The new carpet will make the seat and doorpanels look like crap. One thing leads to another....