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What kind of car is this for? (i.e. year and model)

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Looks like the person took an installation kit for a vehicle and took out the BMW trim plate and used polyurathane caulking to stick the two pieces together.
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This is going in a '02 Audi A4

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What kind of car is this for? (i.e. year and model)
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This person used an install kit for the pocket and single din adapter, but the flat piece is ABS plastic. How did he get it so smooth and professional looking? Is it really that easy just to take some abs plastic, glue the pieces together, sand it down and paint?

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Looks like the person took an installation kit for a vehicle and took out the BMW trim plate and used polyurathane caulking to stick the two pieces together.

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The person probably sanded, primed & painted the ABS flat black. It's not hard to do with the proper tools. Just have to make sure of the fitment and that the trim plate doesn't come apart after a while with driving & temperatures.
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Could this also be done with fiberglass and some filler (like bondo or rage gold)?

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The person probably sanded, primed & painted the ABS flat black. It's not hard to do with the proper tools. Just have to make sure of the fitment and that the trim plate doesn't come apart after a while with driving & temperatures.

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Sorry, I ment duraglass ... not rage gold.

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Could this also be done with fiberglass and some filler (like bondo or rage gold)?

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The person probably sanded, primed & painted the ABS flat black. It's not hard to do with the proper tools. Just have to make sure of the fitment and that the trim plate doesn't come apart after a while with driving & temperatures.

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Fiberglass & Duraglass is for fabrication & shaping / filling purposes. If you are only going to take ABS plastic and make your own kit from two separate kits, you only need to use some high build primer & paint to accomplish this. Using bondo to fill in the gaps and use a bonding catalyst for the two peices so they are connected as one piece. I would not use fiberglass in this case if I were you as this will cause you alot more unnecessary work in the end...... that being sanding Dash Kit Fabrication (BWW) -- posted image.
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Posted: June 24, 2003 at 9:48 AM / IP Logged  

Cool ... Thanks!

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Fiberglass & Duraglass is for fabrication & shaping / filling purposes. If you are only going to take ABS plastic and make your own kit from two separate kits, you only need to use some high build primer & paint to accomplish this. Using bondo to fill in the gaps and use a bonding catalyst for the two peices so they are connected as one piece. I would not use fiberglass in this case if I were you as this will cause you alot more unnecessary work in the end...... that being sanding Dash Kit Fabrication (BWW) -- posted image.

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