Explanation: my poor car
What is this? I posted it to Twitter this morning because even though my husband told me about it yesterday, I didn’t see it until then.
This is the hole husband put in the dashboard. He says that (while stationary) he was getting something off of the windshield and his elbow just came down on the dashboard, didn’t hit it hard at all, and made this hole. I’m not sure what I imagined when he first told me but it wasn’t this because I saw it this morning and thought THERE’S A HOLE. IN MY DASHBOARD. WHY? IT’S HUGE!
Unfortunately all but one of the pieces fell down inside the thing. I don’t think it’s possible to get them out without taking the whole thing apart. The somewhat irony of the situation? It needs to be taken apart anyway. The vent that is just below this GAPING HOLE? It’s the only one that really functions. Something is wrong with the fan and that is the only vent that is able to blow air more than an inch away. My mechanic cousin said that I would need to take it somewhere else where they could pull the entire dash apart in order to see if it could be fixed. Which, of course, it probably could if I could a) afford the time to take our only car somewhere and leave it for who knows how long and b) pay them to fix it. I honestly have no idea how much that would cost but it sounds labor intensive.
The lucky part is the hole in the dash didn’t make a hole in the vent. However, it might just be my imagination but I don’t think it was blowing as well today as it had been.
To be fair to him, a different part of the dashboard already has a good size crack in it. I think the plastic is just worn out and brittle to the point of breaking from a tap after 10 years of sun and the resulting heat of a baking car.
But his solution to the problem? Electrical tape. And if we found all of the pieces? Duct tape. Because you know, a little tape and anything is as good as new!