The dash panels were in a bad state, Toyota had discontinued the facelift dash panels plus the manual facelift gear surround. The only available gear surround was the pre-facelift in black. So I decided to purchase a new pre-facelift gear surround with a new ashtray that come in Matt black from Toyota (pre-facelift). Steve Manley mentioned the pre-facelift work totally fine with the facelift, only difference is the slight grey colour, SRD had my panels re-done to match the new gear surround as I prefer the Matt black to the grey.
Remove/strip facelift dash panels,
Strip/repair Damaged OE coatings
Clean down/repair and repaint in Matt black
Repair holes/digs/scratches etc.
Before: