Thread: Anyone willing to show me their soft dash in south east melbourne?

A reasonable diesel converted classic, softdash or not, will be harder to come across than you think....if $ isn't a big issue your much better off buying a totalled disco and a rangie with a good body and doing a mashup......

I personally much prefer the styling and space in a hard dash, but the AC in the softdash wins anyday so it goes out for drives.

Originally Posted by jsp

A reasonable diesel converted classic, softdash or not, will be harder to come across than you think....if $ isn't a big issue your much better off buying a totalled disco and a rangie with a good body and doing a mashup......

I personally much prefer the styling and space in a hard dash, but the AC in the softdash wins anyday so it goes out for drives.

I would have thought the hard dash air-con would be far better. Much larger evaporator ... not mixer flap rubbish to play up ... two big dedicated fans recirculating the air .......... It would have to be far more effective

seeya,
Shane L.

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

I would have thought the hard dash air-con would be far better. Much larger evaporator ... not mixer flap rubbish to play up ... two big dedicated fans recirculating the air .......... It would have to be far more effective

seeya,
Shane L.

Nah. Softdash is effectively almost D2 vs D1 - I believe they call it progress?

Having said that, I prefer the hard dash with grabrail, but then, I'm an old fart.

Interesting, my hard dash is so cold, the front passenger generally freezes and tries to point hte vents away from themselves (or turns the A/C off even though the back seat passengers are far from "cold"). The hard dash has its own very large dedicated A/C system.

G'day Justin,

I just sold my soft dash to a guy down your way in Sandringham. Of course I can't give you his info but you might see it around down there.

PM me your mobile and I can send you a couple of videos of the soft dash I took for him. Might give you a bit of an idea of what they are like. But they are pretty much a post 96 Disco 1 inside at the front with different door trims, seats and of course the dash pad. but still have the disco gauge cluster.

I've had both the hard and soft dash's and I much prefer the soft dash. It's just a bit nicer all round.

Cheers Steve

I thought about converting my hard dash to a soft dash some years back. then I started looking at disco's, and ultimately changed my mind.

Everyone has a personal preference, but I have never found the HVAC in my RRC to be anything less than overkill. It's so cold and quick that I only need it on 1 or 2 at the most to maintain frigid coolness in 40 degree heat.

by contrast, I feel that the heater matrix and defrost channels for the dash isn't 'perfect' but it's not too shabby. Mostly the issue is the vents and distribution / air balance.

but if the only real reason is for a different hvac - I'd want to know what isn't working properly on the hard dash - because there's absolutely no reason to complain about it from my own experience.

If it's a cosmetic thing, I can understand. But I have found that I like my Range rover looking like a Range rover and not a Disco.

Originally Posted by jsp

A reasonable diesel converted classic, softdash or not, will be harder to come across than you think....if $ isn't a big issue your much better off buying a totalled disco and a rangie with a good body and doing a mashup......

I personally much prefer the styling and space in a hard dash, but the AC in the softdash wins anyday so it goes out for drives.

Not that hard to find, here is my 4bd1t powered soft dash LSE. Currently parting it out though

Originally Posted by Mercguy

I thought about converting my hard dash to a soft dash some years back. then I started looking at disco's, and ultimately changed my mind.

Everyone has a personal preference, but I have never found the HVAC in my RRC to be anything less than overkill. It's so cold and quick that I only need it on 1 or 2 at the most to maintain frigid coolness in 40 degree heat.

by contrast, I feel that the heater matrix and defrost channels for the dash isn't 'perfect' but it's not too shabby. Mostly the issue is the vents and distribution / air balance.

but if the only real reason is for a different hvac - I'd want to know what isn't working properly on the hard dash - because there's absolutely no reason to complain about it from my own experience.

If it's a cosmetic thing, I can understand. But I have found that I like my Range rover looking like a Range rover and not a Disco.

A range rover soft dash doesn't look like a disco though, it looks like a range rover soft dash! Exactly how land rover wanted it to look