Wanted - Dash surround | Ford Explorer Forums - Serious Explorations

  • Register Today It's free!

Wanted Dash surround

Parts or services wanted

blueka

Elite Pickler
Elite Explorer
Joined
December 18, 2005
Messages
5,162
Reaction score
166
Location
Liverpool
City, State
UK
Year, Model & Trim Level
97 UK XLT, 99 Sport V8,
I'm looking for one of these..
Or if anyone can do a 3D scan of one of these, that'd be amazing.

Otherwise it's a ship to the UK job.

thanks

Si
Screenshot_20231201_203514_eBay.jpg

Screenshot_20231201_203514_eBay.jpg
 



Join the Elite Explorers for $20 each year.
Elite Explorer members see no advertisements, no banner ads, no double underlined links,.
Add an avatar, upload photo attachments, and more!
.





I don’t think I’ve ever seen any surround like that in the junkyards I hit in Wyoming and Colorado USA…
 












It does look like the 03-05
Bezel from tracs
Maybe 04-11 ranger also

Is that
Black or charcoal?

I have one in light grey I believe
 






Charcoal. Rangers have a round light button hole. 03+tracs have the oblong hole.
I'll take either a ranger or trac.

Basically I need to get it 3d scanned and flipped for RHD use.

Si
 






So the light grey one will work! It’s from 05 ranger I can get a picture

Is there any way I can 3d scan it for you? We could avoid all sorts of shipping and such. I have quite a few connections here I can look see if anyone I know has this ability
 












Okay I have one from a ranger and one from 03 sport trax so if I can scan it I assume you would like the oblong hole from the trax one

If I sell you one it would have to be the ranger unit as I will be building the sport trax
 






Are you able to scan it? That would be so much easier and obviously I would pay you for your time.
And yes please oblong one.

Thanks

Si
 






I will find out today have to call my fabrication shop buddy

If not I can just sell you the light grey unit or ship it to you and then you can ship it back? Either way I would like to help!
 












Okay so I checked two of my dashes and apparently they are not good enough!

2B56DBE5-996D-463E-8CAA-2AEC64CA58DE.jpeg

This is from 05 ranger and apparently not the correct part

I have two more dashes in storage I will check them today I have a 07 ranger and a 04 sport trac one of them should have that oval for the light switches
 






Thanks.

I'll explain my reasoning. In Europe, we have rear foglights. So the button that you have over there for your front fog lights gets used for our rears and the lights in our front bumpers are illuminated with our full beams. We don't have front foglights.
So, I want to mirror the later style dash surround and utilise the factory switches so I can use my bumper lights as foglights and have my bar lights come on with my full beam

Si

FB_IMG_1623175094449.jpg
 






So you are after the later model light switch that includes the fog light turn on! Then the fog light switch by the radio will become for your rear lights

When I built my sport trac I used a explorer radio bezel deleted a rear defroster button and added a second factory fog light button I will use for driving lights

36083A2C-FFCC-4BE1-A43D-5BFC61DE89BF.jpeg

Lucky for me sport tracs dont have rear defrost

I’ll check my other dashes!
 












20231223_115427.jpg

2004 Sport Trac, I don't know when they went to this style. The fog light switch is built into the headlight switch. Pull the switch toward you to turn the fog lights on.
 












Back
Top