Meeting people as a mechanic.

[4king]

I have a regular customer with an 01 grand prix that has a dash that is literally rolling itself away from the windshield. She uses literally a dozen door stoppers to keep it under eye line against the winshield.

96-01 rams were the worst, 02+ being second worst. 95-98 chevies being third. I haven't seen any newer 07 silverado or tahoe dashes cracked yet, but we usually only see those after they've been dumped from fleet service and put back into lawn fleet service

[JC316]

My guess is the more time spent out in the sun, the more likely it is going to happen.

Not for dodge. My dad kept his 98 ram under a car port, or in a parking garage all of it's life. Damn thing still cracked.

[Grimpala]

Or just be baller enough to not daily drive a two decade old truck.

The rich don't get rich by spending money needlessly.

[Grimpala]

Dodge Ram dashes crumble to dust. One guys '01 ish dash was broken a little but the bezel had been broken and glued back together like a mosaic. I begged him to at least buy a new bezel from the Dodge dealer. It was in stock and I told him I would go get it, sell it to him at cost and reinstall it for free since we were doing a radio anyway. Nope, just glue the pieces back together.
News flash: If your '07+ GM truck dash is not cracked yet, it will be.

Yeah, a dodge dash is a piece of shit. All the trucks we had at TxDOT in college were cracked out. I think they were that way from the factory.

[EW]

What are you guys doing to these trucks to crack the dashes?

My 96 is perfect except for a little color fade, and my 03 is all but perfect, some of the vinyl coating is rubbing off where the wife likes to keep putting her damned feet.

Dodge Ram dashes crumble to dust. One guys '01 ish dash was broken a little but the bezel had been broken and glued back together like a mosaic. I begged him to at least buy a new bezel from the Dodge dealer. It was in stock and I told him I would go get it, sell it to him at cost and reinstall it for free since we were doing a radio anyway. Nope, just glue the pieces back together.
News flash: If your '07+ GM truck dash is not cracked yet, it will be.

[351Coupe]

Last night had a customer in a Durango with a hell of a lean to the drivers side front. He asked me to come look at it and I told him he needed to take the wheel off the car to see what was really going on. Still asked me to look, basically the truck was riding on the lower control arm with no suspension movement. I couldn't see under far enough to tell what was really going on but he was asking about the upper ball joint. In my 30 second in the dark parking lot appraisal it appeared the upper ball joint had failed or broken and the truck was completely bottomed out on the lower control arm. His response was ok cool thanks and drove off into the night.

"But I can drive it for a couple of weeks until I can get it fixed can't I?"

[Baron Von Crowder]

Sunshade cracked my fbody dash into a million pieces. The hot edges expanded while the cool center pieces decided to crack

was it a chuck norris sunshade?

[4king]

Some of you ballers need to invest in a $10 sun shade.

Sunshade cracked my fbody dash into a million pieces. The hot edges expanded while the cool center pieces decided to crack

[CexMashean]

Or just be baller enough to not daily drive a two decade old truck.

[Grimpala]

Some of you ballers need to invest in a $10 sun shade.

[Chili]

What are you guys doing to these trucks to crack the dashes?

My 96 is perfect except for a little color fade, and my 03 is all but perfect, some of the vinyl coating is rubbing off where the wife likes to keep putting her damned feet.

My guess is the more time spent out in the sun, the more likely it is going to happen.

[Grimpala]

What are you guys doing to these trucks to crack the dashes?

My 96 is perfect except for a little color fade, and my 03 is all but perfect, some of the vinyl coating is rubbing off where the wife likes to keep putting her damned feet.

[Frank]

like 2007 and up gm trucks/suvs dash broke to shit because minor bump or a shop touching it?

"that was not like that!"

My 96 has cracks all over it.

[EW]

I don't make them sign a waiver but we do discuss it. Usually, it is broken in multiple places already so they can't say anything.

[LaserSVT]

Cant say I ever broke a 99+ GM dash. Had a couple 95-99 (early) ones break the center mounts at the defrosters but thats because they dry rot.

Problem with 97+ Dodge dashes is they are made of powder.