Wrap your own console?
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Wrap your own console?
Has anybody leather (or pleather) wrapped their own center console/radio bezel? There are a lot of aftermarket ones out there, but the price is 
for something that seems relatively simple.
for something that seems relatively simple.
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I bought a bean bag for a$1 at a yard sale . the console has 2 part's: pur together with 4 screws remove screw's staple new pice at the one edge working your way down stapleing as u go. screw the 2 pices together your good to go
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So I guess the answer is a "no" that somebody has done a DIY console...
Is everybody so used to the Vette tax that they just don't notice prices any more or what!? C5-Kidd looks like he does great work. I'm not questioning that. But for a console and radio bezel you are talking $700
If you think that's a great deal for a few square feet of leather you have more money than sense.
Is everybody so used to the Vette tax that they just don't notice prices any more or what!? C5-Kidd looks like he does great work. I'm not questioning that. But for a console and radio bezel you are talking $700
If you think that's a great deal for a few square feet of leather you have more money than sense.
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So I guess the answer is a "no" that somebody has done a DIY console...
Is everybody so used to the Vette tax that they just don't notice prices any more or what!? C5-Kidd looks like he does great work. I'm not questioning that. But for a console and radio bezel you are talking $700 If you think that's a great deal for a few square feet of leather you have more money than sense.
Is everybody so used to the Vette tax that they just don't notice prices any more or what!? C5-Kidd looks like he does great work. I'm not questioning that. But for a console and radio bezel you are talking $700
If you think that's a great deal for a few square feet of leather you have more money than sense.Just roll over and accept the inevitable
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