Bullnose Instrument & Center Bezel Decal Kits from Rdash on Ebay

[Gary Lewis]

Done.  I added "How can we help" to the end.

[Gary Lewis]

Here's the response I got:

Good morning,

Thank you for your interest in Rvinyl. I am sorry we do not make custom pieces. The pieces shown in the diagram is what you would receive, I'm sorry we don't have an alternative.



Thank you,
Mariel S.

Rvinyl Customer Support

Here's my response to that:

Mariel - We aren't asking for anything custom. We are questioning whether your current offering fits the trucks the way they are supposed to fit.

Let me say this another way. What we can see in your advert doesn't appear to fit the radio bezel for the 1980 - 84 trucks, which have an odd radio opening. And if it does fit the 1980 - 84 radio bezels then it is impossible for it to fit the 1985 & 86 radio bezels as they have a different radio opening size.

Having said that, we are thrilled that you are doing this. Many of us would like to upgrade our instrument and radio bezel finishes. We just want to make sure the radio bezel decals are correct, and are very willing to help you make sure that they are.

In fact, we are willing to send you radio bezels if it would help. So please let us know how or if we can help.

[salans7]

To be honest, it doesn't seem like they're very willing to make changes to what they have. Most aftermarket companies aren't.

[Gary Lewis]

If the decal doesn't fit then I may make a comment about that on eBay.  But first we need to find that out.

[Rembrant]

The issue I have with this kit are the radio bezel decals. I guess technically they do fit...but for the purposes of refinishing a bezel set, they wouldn't really work. See below.



Here is my little collection of Bullnose center bezels. A 1983 on the left, my 1984 delete bezel, and then a couple 1986 wood grains.



And a closer pic of the 1983 and 1984 (delete) bezels:



So decals #4 and #5 clearly fit around the knobs on the 1980-1984 style radio bezels. Decal #7 fits the upper blank area if there is no text there like "XL", "XLT", "Custom", etc, etc.

I'm not sure where decal #6 fits, unless it fits the middle of a delete bezel??

So the issue is...the decals for the instrument bezel cover the actual woodgrain patterns from 1980-1986, but the center bezel decals would NOT cover the wood grain patterns at all.

I guess they could be neat to add...but they wouldn't really give you a matched set...not in the sense that I'd want a matched set.

Unless one of you can see something that I'm missing here.

[Gary Lewis]

Cory - I see what you are saying.  But I'm not getting across to the vendor.  Here's their latest response:

Hi,

Thank you for the response. The model of the kit we depict in our schematic is the only model of the kit we offer.



Thank you,
Collet M

I think I'm done.  They don't appear to either understand or care.  And I don't see a way on eBay to flag that it is improperly advertised.  What I'd like to do is to tell them I'm going to flag it because it is false advertising.  Maybe I could get their attention.  But I can't figure out how to flag it.

Does anyone know?  Other suggestions?

[Rembrant]

Gary I was just commenting for the heck of it. I wouldn’t bother doing anything.

[Gary Lewis]

I really wish we could help them as it would help us.  

[Rembrant]

Gary Lewis wrote

I really wish we could help them as it would help us.  

He might be able to come up with a solution for the 1980-1984 Rosewood center bezels as I believe the Rosewood printed areas are flat. The 1985-1986 Burlwood center bezels are going to be really difficult to decal over as the DIN style radio opening protrudes from the flat face of the panel. This causes some compound corners to cover which is not going to be very easy for the common guy like me. I guess a guy could paint over the protruded part with satin black or something...that would probably look fine.

I'm totally into it, but from what I see, his product won't work for me.