I sanded the cracks I repaired in the top of the dash and used my electric engraveing tool to try to simulate the vinal grain in the plastic to blend in the repair with no luck. I'll have to engrave a vinal pattern across the whole top of the dash for it to look even and hopefully hide the cracks repair after I paint it. It took 3 1/2 hours to do 1/4 of the top of the dash on the drivers side. Luckily the next 2/4th has the defroster vents and the last 1/4 on the pass side had the radio speaker grill. So maybe it will only take me another 5-6 hours to finish the vinal engraveing. What a fiasco this has turned out to be, and my own stupid fault too. Oh well I got the next 3 days to finish the engraveing of the grain. The wife is off from work from this comeing friday till a week from the following monday as she took next week off for vacation. You don't want to hear the noise this engraver makes, it is loud. So I better be done by thursday night cause I don't want to hear it from her if I am not done. I am so pissed at myself for causeing this problem I would kick my self in the A$$ if my legs would bend that way. "Doc"