update time:
Seeing as my middle name is infact "fail" my project for teh day failed miserably.
I unsoldered the SMD's from the mk2 digi dials i bought, re-soldering in blue SMD's, made the loom, labelled the loom and got to work.
took me fooking ages to get the wheel and dials off/out. needed a bigger torx bit than i had, so had to go to halfrauds and get ripped off for one of theirs.
finally got it all out. connected it all up..re-connected battery...and...
...
NOTHING!
well not completely nothing. The main headlight indicator was now blue, as are the indicators, but nothing else worked!
by this time i thought fuck it, iv had enough, put the old dials back in as need the car for work tomorrow morning...
...get it back in, and oh suprise, now my old dials wont illuminate!
so, now iv got 2 sets of crapped up dials
think i may have blown a fuse when i put the digi dials in, but cant be sure!
anyone know which fuse i have to change for the dial illumination?
anyways, im fed up, so im ordering plasma dials instead. not as good, but meh, i fail at everything even slightly challenging.