How many cracks is your plastic clock housing in and how many times have you fixed it?

right now mine is in 3 (new) pieces and I've fixed it once (it was in 3 pieces when I bought it...I dropped it fixing it and it turned into 7 pieces)...and I think I'll fix it again, and repaint it again.

anyone know how much brand new ones are??

 

Mazdatrix has them for around $40.

 

They've got to be the most brittle piece in the interior....I got a perfect (used) one, and within a few months, it cracked up top. Now it's in pieces again...

 

my center trim was in 11 peices!!! i had to lay fiberglass over it and bondo it talk about some work i didnt know it was that hard to work with fiberglass with all the bends and curves

 

ya mine is in alot of pieces i just taped it together and painted it black lol looks like s***

 

1 piece *shrug*

 

in my TII its all together....
in the DD n/a its split down the middle because I use it as a pseudo cupholder by wedging a drink between there and the windhield

 

Yeah, my vert is still on its first one... and I even park it outside most of the time.

Maybe those people that have a large number of mutiple peices don't treat their car well??? You know a nice wipe down with some plastic/vinyl protectant (other than armor all) every now and then would probably do wonders.

 

well that could be.. but i bought my car a year ago so i know it wasnt carelessness on my part. i think it even had a crack in it before i took it out for the first time. it crumbled in my hands under its own weight.

 

All my dash is one piece, but I've used an ugly old dash mat to protect it since new.

 

Mine is still in the original one piece.... but my s4 radio surround crumbled after i took it off to put an aftermarket radio in, now i need an s5 surround...

 

Ditto. Now my center bin is another story, though. It was in 2 pieces when I got it, then I dropped by backpack on it and it became 7 pieces. I glued it back together with 2-part epoxy and it eventually ended up in 15 or so pieces. After the surface became more glue than plastic I gave up and chunked it.

 

*hint* ABS pipe cement from home improvement stores *hint*

almost all the hard plastic in our cars is ABS... hench using ABS cement... just like welding the parts back together.

 

s4 warning light surround dropped and shattered like glass, my black s5 surround is still perfect . . .

 

The speaker(?) thing on the pasenger side under the glove box in my car broke off completely while I was driving. Now it's hangin from the wire.

I replaced that clock housing not so long ago, and I accidently dropped the old one... It turned into dust practically.

My dash is falling apart....

 

+1

However my defroster grille is another story. Half of the pieces are in the garbage, the other half fell behind the dash.

Silly Logicon replacement...

 

mines in about 5 peices, glued back together with super glue.. ha

 

my dash is just crap i am doing a full aluminum dash .

 

i've always wanted to get the pieces in good shape and then vaccum form them.. i dont have a vaccum form either.. so... lol

 

Oh, thanks for the tip. It was in horrible shape when I got the car, and I just kept glueing it back so I could at least hold stuff it in. The car hasn't run in a year and I figure I can find one before its running again, which is why I gave up and chunked it.

 

I just recently replaced the broken and craked pieces that the previous owner did to the car (i was shaking my head the entire time). Oh by the way Mazda sells these two parts for:

122.30 for the center panel (the one peice unit that surrounds your radio and controls)
45.80 for the idiot lights and clock bezel.

those prices don't include taxes but probably included shipping somewhere. yeah... it sucked.

Post up some picks of the aluminum dash when it's done, that would be nice to see.