Joseph44 Posted November 11, 2010 Share Posted November 11, 2010 Hello Everyone: Long time since I posted I'm still working on my 1983 Buick Prk Ave. What I'm looking for are the 2 brown dashboard grills must have speaker grill and ht/ac/def grill all in one piece. If anyone can point me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Schramm Posted November 15, 2010 Share Posted November 15, 2010 Got a picture of what you are looking for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Morton Posted November 15, 2010 Share Posted November 15, 2010 Don't know if you have a Pull a Part yard in your neck of the woods,Pull-A-Part but if you do,go to their web site and search for the model car and if they have one there you may be able to score one there.There also may be some other models that use the same part,or other junk yards nearby.Good Luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NTX5467 Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 These particular grilles can be somewhat problematic to find AND remove from the donor vehicle. With age, the plastic will become brittle and easily break regardless of how careful you might be in trying to get them out of the instrument panel pad.MIGHT BE BEST to get the complete instrument panel pad rather than remove the grilles from one in the salvage yard. Besides, the yard op would desire you to purchase the entire instrument panel pad rather than remove the grilles and make the pad "unsaleable" without them. Once you have the entire pad assembly, then you can probably re-color it and the grilles to match your existing interior color. ONLY way I'd do just the grilles would be to find some NOS ones and re-color them . . . but the "aged plastic" issue would still be there with the NOS ones, just not quite as seriously as with the used ones from a salvage yard. Still, you might have decent luck finding a good pad and grilles in Ohio (or similar) than we would in TX.Seems like the instrument panels were somewhat common for several years in there, but they might have looked to be basically the same BUT have some minor differences which woould not make them totally interchangeable. LOOK FIRST!Just some thoughts,NTX5467 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph44 Posted November 16, 2010 Author Share Posted November 16, 2010 Thanks guys for the site and for the good advice I'll look at both ideas. Thanks again for the heads up. Have a great wk!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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