Re: Loose Black Fabric Tape At Front Of Dashboard Top
I never saw the fabric tape until it began to come loose. If you look at the STAR parts manual at your Chrysler Service Department, the tape shows quite obviously along the front edge of "Part # 5099991AA Panel Ins" in their picture. The tape has no individual part number since it can't be glued back in place once the dashboard is installed. The reason that the dashboard replacement takes so long is that the screws keep falling down into the dashboard, requiring you to take it off again! Mine was replaced and appears perfect now. All of the Crossfire interiors used the same color dashboard so there will be a perfect match. It is not clear how recently the dashboard was upgraded by DC to the sewn cloth piece version so VINs would not be helpful. There must have been other complaints since DC would not have expended the effort to modify the part for their production assembly line because they are "good guys"! They were also forced to upgrade that flimsy emergency trunk release rod on the roadster because it kept snapping so easily; it was obvious when you looked at the cheap black plastic connector that it was going to break too easily!