Anyone repaired their centre console?

Tippin · Post by **Tippin** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 10:27 pm

has anyone had success trying to repair their centre console???

im going try superglueing it all together and then fibreglassing the joints, just wanted to know if anyone has tried it.

RallyMad · Post by **RallyMad** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 1:08 am

I had mine plastic welded once, which resulted in weakening in to the point I snapped it in half trying to put it back in.

Tried the super glue once as well, broke the glue positions when I tried to put it back in.

Sorry to say I believe your only option is to buy a new one, the plastic is just to brittle once it breaks once, it will break again. If you reinforce the spot it broke it will probably just break again in a different spot. That is what happened to me anyway.

Tippin · Post by **Tippin** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 3:16 am

ahhh ha! what if i reinforce all of it !!!

il shall go mad with fibreglass

RallyMad · Post by **RallyMad** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 3:40 am

Might work, or might break the clips with the reinforcing when trying to put it back in.

Post by **BorepYano** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 2:13 pm

mine's fibreglassed together. it was originally 6 pieces lol

i super glued it together first then reinforced it with firbe glass.
just super glue will not hold, i only used it to hold it together while i was fibreglassing it.
it looks like a mess from the back, and i've put some resin in to the cracks themselves, which meant i had to sand the front - that was ok for me cos i was painting it anyway, but without painting it would look dodgy as.

i'd say try it, i mean it's broken anyway right? worst case senario, you screw up and have to replace it anyway lol

J · Post by J » Sat Jan 03, 2009 4:34 pm

ive tried twice... And on both ocasions ive made it worse

1st time i tackled it with superglue, took ages then resorted to blowjdrying the glue to make it harden faster. It was all sweet but when i carried it towards the car the glue snapped and half of the console fell onto the cement and shattered into 7 different pieces.

We need a group buy... Or a cf centre console group buy

Tippin · Post by **Tippin** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 8:43 pm

BorepYano wrote:mine's fibreglassed together. it was originally 6 pieces lol

i super glued it together first then reinforced it with firbe glass.
just super glue will not hold, i only used it to hold it together while i was fibreglassing it.
it looks like a mess from the back, and i've put some resin in to the cracks themselves, which meant i had to sand the front - that was ok for me cos i was painting it anyway, but without painting it would look dodgy as.

i'd say try it, i mean it's broken anyway right? worst case senario, you screw up and have to replace it anyway lol

cool, thats what im planning to do. Resin??? like sikaflex???

did u only fibreglass the cracks or did you reinforce other areas as well?

i was spose 2 do it today but it turns out i ran out of super glue and was too late to buy some

Post by **dstocks** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 7:48 am

No, Fibreglass the whole back. You will find that if you flex it, the fibreglass will separate a little from the plastic. I actually used a hot knife to dig the plastic up a bit on the back when I was playing with this. It gives the fibreglass a little more to hold onto.

On another note, I can still get the genuine ones new. They arent brittle when they are first made. I have a spare new one atm if anyone wants to go down that path.

Post by **BorepYano** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 1:20 pm

tippin9 wrote:
BorepYano wrote:mine's fibreglassed together. it was originally 6 pieces lol

i super glued it together first then reinforced it with firbe glass.
just super glue will not hold, i only used it to hold it together while i was fibreglassing it.
it looks like a mess from the back, and i've put some resin in to the cracks themselves, which meant i had to sand the front - that was ok for me cos i was painting it anyway, but without painting it would look dodgy as.

i'd say try it, i mean it's broken anyway right? worst case senario, you screw up and have to replace it anyway lol
cool, thats what im planning to do. Resin??? like sikaflex???

did you only fibreglass the cracks or did you reinforce other areas as well?

i was spose 2 do it today but it turns out i ran out of super glue and was too late to buy some

resin = fibreglass resin

fibreglass the whole back as dstocks said.

Tippin · Post by **Tippin** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 7:23 pm

ohh yeh the stuff that makes it harder, sry

dstocks how much u wanting? im gonna try this first caus it also gives me a chance to spray it another colour but if it all goes wrong il send u a pm, thanx