should i seek help?? (stripped content)

[Struggler]

so today i thought to hell with it,

for want of anything else to strip out of the clio, i gave the dash the chop! (and i dont mean its foreskin!)

im sure its not to everyones tastes, but personally, i love the way it looks! considering its the closest thing i have to a daily (i do maybe 20miles a week not including "fun drives")

sorry for the poor picture,
believe it or not, it was 100x messier than this when the dash was freshly pulled out!!

 

[jesus]

How can you love the way that looks over having a dash?

 

[JackJack]

Sorry but that just looks messy.

 

[kerry-w]

That seems really pointless to me, looks a mess and you have saved a tiny amount of plastic in weight.

 

[K1NGY]

I dont get it?

Youve cut abit of the dash exposing whats underneith?

Bit pointless?

 

[Jon.G]

In answer to your question. Yes.

 

[bigrich690]

why oh why oh why!!!

 

[tonksy26]

LOL

 

[Struggler]

saved actually quite a bit of weight actually, about 10-15kgs once you add all the sound deadening and vents and such.
and no that is not just exposing whats underneith, had to remount the fuse box as it was part of the lower dash.

took the dash out for a clean up, and decieded to only put back in what i needed!!
i forget that im one of a small bunch that love the stripped out look

ill step back and let the haterz hate!

 

[.Andy.]

looks awful

 

[kerry-w]

saved actually quite a bit of weight actually, about 10-15kgs once you add all the sound deadening and vents and such.
and no that is not just exposing whats underneith, had to remount the fuse box as it was part of the lower dash.

took the dash out for a clean up, and decieded to only put back in what i needed!!
i forget that im one of a small bunch that love the stripped out look

ill step back and let the haterz hate!

To be honest now that you chopped some of the dash away you mayaswel just take the whole rest of it out, wouldnt look as bad then as it would be more symetrical.

 

[Gt rob]

started drilling hoes on the inside of your panels yet?

 

[Birdie*]

It does draw attention away from the awful White surround of the clock I guess

 

[Struggler]

if i took the rest out then id loose stereo, heater, and clocks. That wouldnt be too sensible now would it!

and as for the clock, its not a surrount, its a volt meter as i want to keep an eye on my alternator

 

[rampantreaper]

if i need t o save weight in my clio i just make sure i shi t before i go out, seems to work.

 

[Ra1nb1rd]

Get rid of the whole lower dash you don't need a stereo or heater

Gotta love the haters

 

[stacky]

failsport right there

 

[Nick172Cup]

failsport right there

Erm no...

Should of mounted the fusebox undernear the dash instead of onto it, looks silly and what happens if we get some more good weather and it gets f'ing hot inside the car? Could melt the parts of the outer casing of the loom.

 

[Struggler]

mount it to what benieth the dash? the dash is the only solid thing to mount it to without nut and bolting something through the bulk head,

which im tempted to do at a later stage as i want to put some switchers there.

and how hot are you expecting the summer to be?? melting the loom??

 

[Nick172Cup]

Bolt it to the dash but from underneath? Find some redundunt holes on the bulkhead to cabletie it to? Remember it may not be that hot but the window will aid as a magnifying glass in a way.

The wires went all sticky when I had no dash in my Mk1 16v, so yeah I think I would know...

 

[Dweeb]

everyone on the forum are such c***s!

 

[Dan1587]

It does draw attention away from the awful White surround of the clock I guess

I thought it was a turbo pressure gauge?

 

[Gavin.]

I wouldnt like to be a passenger if you had an accident lol

 

[Dan1587]

In all honestly, would that pass an MOT? Partly for the reason above?

 

[TimR26]

In answer to your thread title....

Yes, because it looks stupid!

 

[The Chubby Pirate]

FLOL.

 

[ROB91]

If you have gone that far then i would just take it all out.

 

[hixxy]

Poor Clio, looks like it's lost it's "va va voom!" :-(

 

[HartZ]

not for me..

 

[Goodj]

ditch the lot, stack dash mounted on the steering column is your calling!

 

[SC03OTT]

Stripped content is going a bit far.

Either strip entirely or don't strip at all. Half way between looks crap.

 

[Struggler]

I wouldnt like to be a passenger if you had an accident lol

dont worry dude, there are these things called seatbelts, they kinda stop you heading face first into the dash!!

In all honestly, would that pass an MOT? Partly for the reason above?

Yes
There are no sharp edges,
All warning lights are functional,
theres nothing on the MOT list that requires you to keep a certain level of trim!

when everyone is saying take the lot out,
what are you refering too??

i want the dials,
i want the heaters,
i want the stereo,

its for functionality over look tbh, i didnt really expect cliosport to understand

 

[Porkie]

When you get older.... you will look back at this and think to yourself 'WTF was I thinking!'

 

[Struggler]

possibly,

but i doubt it based on the amount of enjoyment i get out of the car that i built!

 

[daveski]

Try and mount the fuse box different as said already

I would lose the rest of the lower dash and find a way to mount the stereo and heater controls, it will look better than that.