I"m on my 5th Camaro - now a '02 Z28 that has been well taken care of. Like most of you one day my pristine plastic dash plate just cracked - and a year later the 'padded' dash 'cracked' too. These are plastic fantastic snap together cars. And GM just milked the design once they'd decided to pull the plug on the Camaro.

So - for the padded dash - I found a replacement for $150 about 3 years ago - It's about two days of work to replace but not rocket science. Couple of hard spots - getting the inst cluster out with the wiring harness attached - and then when you put the wire harness back in place make sure you stretch it far enough to get it to the radio. I didn't and ended up put extender cable on the radio harness. All fine now.

For the crap dash plate that turns into a jig saw puzzle when you touch it - scrap it. But KEEP the round Velcro fasteners from the original dash. Then buy TWO dash caps. One is sacrificial and will become your 'original' dash plate that your used to attach the finish dash cap plate to. I trimmed down the edges of the sacrificial to ensure I'd have no interference with the finish cap. Many of these things don't fit right anyway so that just pushed the odds in my favor. You're going to need to fasten it down but the hard part is the curve over the instrument cluster. They never lay right. I fabbed some "L" shaped metal pieces about 1" long and cut tiny slots in the dash and pushed these L clips into the secure factory mounts the real dash mounted to. Works like a champ. There is a 'round' hole in the instrument housing on top - push an accordion body clip through a hole in your sacrificial dash into that hole and it helps with that curvature problem. You'll need to use those round Velcro discs to hold down the front - I cut 2" slots in the sacrificial dash then glued the velcro to the finish dash - it is ALL removable and ALL is held firmly in place - did not use silicon on edges - used Velcro strips.
I fought this dash issue for years until I came up with this - Originally I replaced with real dash - for $125.00 - Now they are $700 with shipping.

You can email me for details if you want. I've got about $150 invested in this solution.

 

if you got pictures of process please post em.

 

I don't have pic's. I thought about making a YouTube video on this but time and weather got in the way. I don't have a garage and weather has just been too poor to even want to.
I will follow up at least with pics and let you know..