The car had always stayed outside with the previous owners that being obvious with the clearcoat flaking off the entire front clip. The dash caught me by surprise since I thought maybe if it hadn't cracked in as many years, then maybe it wasn't going to crack at all. No such luck I guess. I've had many other cars whose dashes had never cracked, including a '63 Buick which at the time I had it, it was 30 years old and didn't have a single crack.
I'm just going to have to try the remedies offered in a similar thread to head off any more serious deterioration.

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84 300D Turbodiesel 190K with 4 speed manual sold in 03/2012