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Yes I think having the wrong glue would be a recipe for failure. I replaced my headliner with the standard weldbond contact cement but the weldbond landau glue is probably better (it is more expensive so it must be better?). To wrap the early dash and have success to some extent you have to have the vinyl stretched as little as possible on each side of the instrument pod. The rest of the dash is not nearly as difficult as you can maneuver the vinyl and stretch it without the risk of it lifting as long as you are stretching against a flat surface. I vinyl wrap cars for a living and the techniques are vaguely similar in that you do everything possible to not stretch in the concave areas to avoid putting too much tension on your adhesive and do all your stretching in the flat, and convex areas, and avoid stretching near and edge. If someone was able to 3d print dash vents that would snap together from the top and bottom for the early dash it would probably eliminate a lot of the problem of the vinyl lifting in these areas.
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