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Dash Trim Style
by Will Baum
Dash trim can enliven the
grayest and blandest of dashboards. Add a little wood and a dashboard becomes
like the bridge of an old-world schooner. Add colored carbon trim and sitting in
a car is like taking the wheel of some flying vehicle from the future. Most
modifications you can make to your car are expensive and time consuming. Dash
trim kits are a do-it-yourself bargain. You can have your new trim installed in
around an hour's time.
Dash trim comes custom made to
fit your car, regardless of the make and model. If you've got a Miata with four
air vents and a hazard button on the dash, that's how the kit will come. Trim
kits will have trim designed to fit perfectly on door locks, cupholders,
speakers, you name it. An interior can suddenly come to life with relatively
little effort.
As a verb, trim means "to make
something tidier or more level by cutting a small amount off it." As an
adjective, it means "tidy and well-ordered." Dash trim can make everything look
tidy, like a careful haircut or a just-clipped hedge. It can also give a
dashboard a wild look. Bright red or chrome-colored trim highlights the contours
of a dash. It makes a statement. It says, "Personalized. Not factory made."
Today, cars that seem ordinary
coming out of the factory are receiving radical recreation at the hands of a new
movement of car fanatics known as "tuners." Tuners will take a standard Honda
Civic, and turn it into something you might have seen in "The Fast and the
Furious." The transformed Civics are hardly recognizable. People want their cars
to reflect their personality. Dash trim is one way to start.
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