On your dashboard

[Crackpot]

Facia? that's the front (decorative part) of the vehicle. while it's tecnically correct to any decorative trim to be called a facia. never has the whole if the I/P been called a facia.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Never say Never

Fascia is used in two areas in the automotive world.

Fascia is often used in relation to the decorative panels of a car's dashboard,[1] or the entire dashboard assembly.[2][3]

Regulations affecting bumper design in the late 1970s, saw the increasing use of soft plastic materials on the front and rear of vehicles. Fascia was also adopted from this time as the term to describe these soft areas,[4] but is now increasingly used as a general term for the car's entire front-end "look" - grille, headlamps, front bumper, and other details

Wiki

[Crackpot]

SO you go back to Wiki to confirm it's own error?

[MajGenl.Meade]

Its own error.

Ah no. The "error" in WIKI that I referred to in my first post was the additional identification of the instrument cluster alone as being "a" dashboard or fascia - you and I seem to agree that is not quite correct.

In this (different) article, the fascia is described correctly as originally referring to decorative panels "on" the dashboard or to the entire dashboard. Only in later times did USians begin to think that the wor fascia should no longer describe a part of the interior of the car but should be applied to whatever exterior bits took their fancy.

Meade

[oldr_n_wsr]

I do like the bird's eye maple paneling on Meades picture.

Dashboard, firewall, facia, instrument pane/cluster, who cares. It's a pile or plastic that has wires and vents and vacume hoses that are impossible to get to without breaking every plastic clip and tab holding it together and then even more impossible to get replacement plastic clips. duct tape is your friend