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Dashboard is falling off! What to do? 850 1996

posted by  Hugh on  Tue May 8 20:22 CST 2018
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Klaus,

I was under the impression based upon the comments made by my mechanic, that you could not “tighten up” the 4 firewall screws. That what ever type of plate or support bracket they screwed into, was in essence “stripped”.

If you can “fix” a loose dashboard, is your only option to buy a used one from a salvage yard? Wouldn’t even a used dashboard be no good, because again there were be nothing to screw the 4 bolts into to secure it to?

Or am I wrong, and the only way to “fix” this problem is to buy a used dashboard and hope it is in better shape than the outgoing one? Thanks as always for your erudite responses, and I mean that as sincere compliment. Volvo should put you on the payroll.

It would also seem by your suggestion, that assuming my dashboard doesn’t fall off tomorrow, I should wait to address this problem when the a/c evaporator fails again.

Hugh






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