Long Console Sides Templates??

[borgpj]

Does anyone have templates for the long console side panels (non A/C)? Or can Behr A/C side panels be modified to work as part of a rebuilt non-A/C console?  They seem to be molded for the wider A/C center console, but maybe could be drawn in to fit a narrower standard console center??

[Buckeye]

Maybe @SydneyTii could help you out. See first post on page 392

 

[tomphot]

I can help you out.  PM your address. 
I recently made new panels - be aware that there is well over 1” of draw back that needs to be made to screw in the back cross member.  It appears that the originals were scored and the panels were stapled to give them more strength.  I put some cuts in my new ones so the wood wouldn’t split when pulling the back ends together. 

[tomphot]

One other thing, AC was not an option on the 2002s so BMW only made 1 kind of console for that year.  I don’t know if Dealer installed AC used different consoles. 

[SydneyTii]

4 hours ago, Buckeye said:

Maybe @SydneyTii could help you out. See first post on page 392

 

I don’t have a template, I just laid the old ones  on the new board and drew around them. I can certainly do that on a piece of paper and send it to you, might take a while to get to you I’m in Australia !

Edited June 20, 2020 by SydneyTii

[visionaut]

I believe the long console panels for AC will fit for a console without A/C.  The small "bump" in the panels at the bottom is only .75" high.  The issue might be the panel height, since the side panels on the narrower console are at a different angle, it might be slightly tall.

 

This Q comes up fairly often, and I have some old Behr A/C console side panels, so I decided to take a pic.  Then I decided to do a few measurements.  Then I decided to combine the pic & measurements.  Lol.  To the computer, and a short bit later -- Ta-Da...a template of sorts. 

 

Hope the attached PDF helps!  It's Full Size on a 22x17 sheet.

 

Tom-too

 

 

Console Side Panel.pdf

Edited June 20, 2020 by visionaut
better PDF...

[tomphot]

As a comparison to the above, this is the non ac panel profile I used when I cut a new one from my old ones.  A lot shorter on the back end!

[visionaut]

 

3 hours ago, tomphot said:

this is the non ac panel

 

Thx Tom - looks like they just took a neat scoop out of the rear lower tail on the non-ac console for the A/C hw clearance.

 

For the curious, the final Behr A/C console side panel PDF template above isn’t just a trace off the photo. It’s been corrected for parallax, a non-infinite focal length, and scaled dimensionally to fit my actual panel measurements, and rendered at 1:1 scale. The measurements shown were verified across left and right panels.

 

Fun short little project to dust off the ol’ drafting skills - hope it’s useful!