he should have just got one of those caps that you glue on over the busted up dash, they install in minutes and make it look like new again
Those caps look just as bad….. I did the LMC dash in my old 01 many years ago. Biggest problem is the substructure is made from material just as bad. Spent many hours plastic welding and epoxying the skeleton the dash attached to. We quit doing dash work on 2nd gens at work many years ago.