Fiberglass Tape

Hey. I just found this stuff at Rona called Fiberglass Tape. It's used mainly for drywalling applications, but i was thinking about usuing it to fiberglass my dash for my 82 Monte Carlo. Its basicaly a roll of  woven fiberglass with one sticky side. I figured if I just evenly layed the entire dash in it, and glassed on top of that, It'd work just like fiberglass. So then I could sand and bondo like normal. And this way I'd be left with the original dash style. Anyone ever tried this stuff?

i have...i make a spoiler out of it, lol.  worked fine except fot the fact that the wood expanded and shrank with the weather and caused it to crack...i dont entirely like it though, it doesnt want to hold around fairly tight curves, even with a lot of resin....its fairly stiff, but is good for flat surfaces for sure....actually, u say its woven fiberglass?  the stuff i used was more of a fiberglass mesh...probably the same stuff, but i dont like it a whole lot as u can just paint on some resin and make the cloth stick to it.  so why do u want to fiberglass right onto your existing dash? changing the shape of it anywhere or shanging something?  or just wanting to get a really smooth surface?

too bad i cant edit yet....but IMO it would take more time to lay the strips of fiberglass tape since u will have to put down the tape and foil to keep it from sticking to the dash anyways....more opinions are definitely needed though as I'm just a newbie

Ya basically what i wanted to do originally was just paint the dash. But I noticed cracks and tears in the soft spots. So I figured the best thing, and easiest would be using the tape. Then I get a solid, smooth finish. Do you think areas that it doesn't stick to could use some glue to help?

ok!  not sure if its fiberglass that u want to use then to fix those cracks...its vinyl right.  if u are going to use fiberglass then rip off the "soft stuff" and work with the metal/plastic

If i rip off the soft stuff, i wont know what kind of shell ill be left with. I dont want to have to do any molding . How do if its a solid structure underneath?

i dont know what kind of shell u will be left with either, but I'm guessing that there wasnt a whole lot of shaping with the padding so basically u should still have the same shape, just a half inch smaller, which can be build up with fiberglass again if u want...but dont start riping things apart till someone else says the same thing.

Im pretty sure that there is a solid structure underneath there. My buddy took his dash in his honda accord out and tore that stuff and painted it. But dont hold me to that cause that was a 94 honda accord not a monte carlo.