RRaulston
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Anyone make a vacuum formed piece of plastic that presses onto the transmission shift panel to keep the sun/UV light/dust off of it? I didn't find anything after searching..
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Being from AZ, I am thinking I need to slow down on the truck the amp up on building the shade cover...You will have to use something really tolerant of heat because inside the cab in the sun the temps can get way beyond what will warp and melt PLA. You would need to use something like ABS but printing with that is a little more tricky and really should be done with an enclosed printer to limit temp swings and evacuate fumes.
hard keys or soft gell cover? there were two types. Hard Key kind seemed to last better... the gel ones... not so much so... Motor Homes with similar Alison keypad from that era had same issues. Lots of storys of folk using the end of writing Pens to push hard enough to get keypad to recognize a push.My truck spent it's entire life in the desert of Kuwait and El-Paso and my transmission panel looks/functions perfect. The seats were absolutely destroyed as was a lot of other rubber bits but that panel looks great. It really doesn't seem to be an issue honestly.