Well, all my dreams of my project just shattered....literally.

I epoxied the cracked and broken dash back together. What I had figured is the UV sunlight had broken down the plastic. I got it glued back, sanded it all down nice and smooth like, and even painted it real evenly. It looked really good. Like I was actually excited. It was cured and ready to go...so get all the wires in place, carefully line up the clips, and gently push the piece in and...

KAPLEWY!!! plastic bits going everything. The entire piece just shattered into nothing...

Guess Ill just fork out some money and buy a new part. Dumb.