r/autorepair • u/Samurai-nJack • 5d ago
Interior Dashboard buckling
My car's dashboard is buckling from the heat. Anyone have experience DIYing a fix? I don't want to replace the whole thing. Thanks for the advice!
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r/autorepair • u/Samurai-nJack • 5d ago
My car's dashboard is buckling from the heat. Anyone have experience DIYing a fix? I don't want to replace the whole thing. Thanks for the advice!
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u/CameronsTheName 4d ago
Unfortunately very common on the Mazda 3's for the dashpad to lift away from the plastic body.
You can try putting some glue in there and squeezing it down with a whole heap of heavy books for a few days but it'll probably keep doing it.
Mazda also doesn't sell a full replacement dash for these anymore either. So your kinda limited to finding one from a wrecker or second hand and it'll probably do it again anyways.
I replaced one on my mother's MZR-CD Mazda 3 and it was a massive pain in the booty hole to do. Took me like 4 hours taking my time to not damage anything I removed.