I am in the process of a complete restoration of my GTP inside and out, and I thought in the interest of saving a little time I would order the custom made double din dash from...the only place online I found that sells them, I wont name any names here.
After 113 days and a phone call bi-weekly after the 8-10 week period I expected, I received my new dash. No vents, that are plastic welded in, no steering column rubber gasket thing also plastic welded in. A pretty rough re-texture job, and a partial respray with a bad color match and obvious tape masking lines. I figured the usual "We make it, you make it work!" as most aftermarket stuff seems to be these days. I pulled the dash apart and snapped it in just to see and I get this....http://i.imgur.com/puErICY.jpg
So I had to make the heater control a little thinner overall. I started by trimming an 1/8th of an inch off both the top and bottom of the HVAC, and shaving the guide pins. Then elongating the mount holes to move the entire control down, I gained the needed 1/4 of an inch.
Then it looked like this http://i.imgur.com/2bgkRVy.jpg You can see the rough texture but now the hole is the right size.
So then I painted it body color and cleared it and crammed a Kenwood double din in it!
http://i.imgur.com/QUZoU8I.jpg
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