Exactly. Where I am though if they’re covered they last an extremely long time. This one came from a hotter place so it’s already cracking :(. I may buy a oak one and see about staining it? Or something along those lines
Stop crushing my dreams that a car company would indefinitely make ever single part forever haha. Man it would be cool if that was a thing, imagine getting to order every single part and assembling it yourself
Good point, but they still make the Oak colored dash pad as far as I can tell, plus they did exactly that with the MR2 I think? I remember hearing Toyota decided to bring some tooling out of retirement for it. Also I still am impressed with how many other parts are still available.
It’s such a freaking bummer. There’s a ton of parts where they make them in oak but not grey. Even if they did limited runs every once and awhile would alleviate the problem quite a bit.
grayish-blue part number/sku 55401-60150-B0
https://parts.toyota.com/p/63407710/55401-60150-B0.html
oak
https://parts.toyota.com/p/Toyota_1995_Land-Cruiser-45L-AT/PAD-SUB-ASSEMBLY---INSTRUMENT-PANEL-SAFETY-OAK/63431227/5540160150E0.html