Dodge Truck Dashes

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Mike Pepin

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I apologize if this has been asked before. Why are so many Dodge truck dashes broken/cracked. I've owned 4 late model 1500 and 2500 vans and none were cracked. Is there a difference in the dashes or are the owners just dashboard haters?
 

MADDOG

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If I remember correctly what I read some years ago was that the dash pad was very thin, made of material that suffered failures under UV light and that the underlying structure bar spacing proved to be too far apart to support the dashpad as it sagged under heat and UV degradation.
 

Okiespaniel

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Poorly designed and made with low grade material. Another of Ma Mopars not so fine moments.

Gen 1 truck dashes warp and break over time as well but as bad as 2nd gens.
 

corneileous

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I had a second gen and a third gen Ram that never ended up with a cracked dash for as long as I owned them but, I also kept a carpeted dash mat cover over each one of them, and tried to use a sunshade in the windshield every time I parked.


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Moparfanatic21

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I wipe mine down every few weeks with Meguiars it has a UV protectant. Never had one crack on me
 
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