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The interior doesn’t suck. But you have very limited options as stated. Your only way to achieve what you want is to have a custom shop fab custom fiberglass dash & everything else along with it that you don’t like & it'll cost plenty.

Custom PRP seats will look the most modern & probably be the most comfortable - check those out. Everything else is just dash gauges, radio swap, painting, upholstering, etc.

Or just buy something else to mod like an 04 WJ.

 

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NO.

 

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What exactly do you mean? Like why are people online swapping out an older Ford truck Dash for a newer one? Because in some vehicles you can and some vehicles you can’t. But we are talking about an XJ. If you want a more modern look and you haven’t bought one yet then just buy a more modern jeep like a 99-04 WJ or a 97-01 XJ. A lot less work to just buy a WJ if you like the interior of that. Plus a lot more other features. Personally, my XJ fell into my lap, but if I could I do it all over again I would Have gotten a WJ to start a build with, mainly for interior, space, comfort, usually bigger, axles to mod, etc. but that’s just personal preference.

 

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I bet it’ll rattle like crazy, have issues where it meets the windshield as warriorsuspensions stated, & good luck with the airbags. But if you can make it work you’ll probably be the first unless you can find a photo of one already done. I haven’t seen one on any of the other XJ forums in 13 years though. Let us know how it works out for you.

It’d be easier to have a shop do a custom overlay onto the dash. Just because it’s been done on a Ford truck (that likely has the same/similar enough windshield line, but an updated dash in their next gen) doesn’t mean the same for Jeeps that are older than what you’re looking at.

 

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Measure first then go to JY