(Mk1) Posi Blue Wesssstyy (New Car Revealed - Pg21)

[Sneakydevil89]

ah yeah i remember!

should have said you were on saxp! would have thrown in some extra stuff for free!

thanks mate, cars a bit dirty at the moment, but when the weather cleans up ill give her a good polish.

you got a 106 by the looks of it?

[landerboi13]

Originally Posted by Sneakydevil89

did you now, where abouts?

its nice isnt it just need a damn good clean, but its im not motivated to at the moment cus it will only get dirty again in matter of hours.

err just up the road from the police station by town . yeah it is, ha yeah i know that feeling...

[Sneakydevil89]

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.

[denni]

aww guttin mate. urm not to sure which one the fuse is.

[coffs_vtr]

Originally Posted by Sneakydevil89

ah yeah i remember!

should have said you were on saxp! would have thrown in some extra stuff for free!

thanks mate, cars a bit dirty at the moment, but when the weather cleans up ill give her a good polish.

you got a 106 by the looks of it?

lol wish i had now mate, yeah 106 gti, had 2 vtr's now moved up a stage , keep up the good work though mate

[Sneakydevil89]

Originally Posted by denni

aww guttin mate. urm not to sure which one the fuse is.

going to google it now. havnt actually checked to see if the speedo and rev counter works at all, or if its just the illuminations.

Originally Posted by coffs_vtr

lol wish i had now mate, yeah 106 gti, had 2 vtr's now moved up a stage , keep up the good work though mate

haha, this is my second sax, had a 1.1 2 tone first lol
but this one so far has been going as badly as the last.

though the engine seems to be ok...having said that there is a very worrying knockin noise come from the bottom end

[Qucifer666]

did you solder the leds on the correct way, there is a right and wrong way. also its page 5, not 4

[Sneakydevil89]

Originally Posted by Qucifer666

did you solder the leds on the correct way, there is a right and wrong way. also its page 5, not 4

just looked at my fuse box, and not only did i blow a fuse, i melted 2 fuses!

looked at this fuse diagram to see which ones they were:





was numbers 2 and 3, which is odd as number 2 isnt unused apparently.

both are 25amp, which is annoying as i dont have any spare and lippy yoinked the ones from the badger, so cant use that

will have to go to a car place tomorrow before work to get some.

as for soldering in the LED's, i kinda thought they would have a right and wrong way, but there was nothing in the guide...

got plasma dials coming now anyway

[Qucifer666]

there is a notch out of one corner of the leds, look closely and you will see

[Sneakydevil89]

Originally Posted by Qucifer666

there is a notch out of one corner of the leds, look closely and you will see

yeah i remember seeing them actually, but still doesnt tell me which way round they should be!

[Qucifer666]

the same way thhe notch was on the ones you took off

[Sneakydevil89]

probably should have taken note of that when i did it shouldnt i?

i was trying to save time today, so i unsoldered all the ones i wanted to change last night and then when my SMD's arrived this morning, i soldered them back on.

FAIL

[Qucifer666]

i did one at a time, lol. oh well, plasmas should look good.
or i can check mine at the weekend and tell you where they go?

[Sneakydevil89]

Originally Posted by Qucifer666

i did one at a time, lol. oh well, plasmas should look good.
or i can check mine at the weekend and tell you where they go?

plasma's will look ok, but not as good as the Blue digi dials would look.

I was using my brothers soldering iron last night as it had a pointed tip and i think it was just a crapped up as mine. so that probably didnt help.

thanks man, but i think ill stick with the plasma's. hopefully i wont break them!

[Sneakydevil89]

Big Ol Update Time:

This one is actually a proper one. so my plasma's turned up today, so decided as i had half a day off, to crack on and fit them. were fairly easy to do, but need to tidy up the wiring when i have more time, they look pretty goodi think!

anyways, pics!



Dials before



The kit



Front off...



New dials in...



front back on







and them all lit up

thoughts?

[Eskimo]

Look good pal! Liking what done to my old car!

Not so keen on the white dials surround, i don't mean actual dials, the plastic thing!

[benJee_VTR]

looks awesome, this is one for the near future for me too. Was it an easy job? looks it from the pics Or maybe you just made it look easy

[MrHoustonp]

I really need to look at this section more, didn't even know you got a new car :o

Looks sweeeet, nice updates too

[Sneakydevil89]

Originally Posted by Eskimo

Look good pal! Liking what done to my old car!

Not so keen on the white dials surround, i don't mean actual dials, the plastic thing!

im undecided at mo, it was lying around so thought id pop it in while i had the standard ones out. Im getting new centre console and heater vents which it will kinda match. so see what it looks like then!

Originally Posted by benJee_VTR

looks awesome, this is one for the near future for me too. Was it an easy job? looks it from the pics Or maybe you just made it look easy

yeah, it is really. its a bit fiddly, but nothing too bad. All you do is take a switched lived so they illuminate only when lights are on and an earth from somewhere and boom boom tahts it.

Theres a little selector box so you can have it green or blue but currently i have no where to put it as its a bit square and theyre arent any flat surfaces near it.

But will sort that out soon enough!

Originally Posted by MrHouston

I really need to look at this section more, didn't even know you got a new car :o

Looks sweeeet, nice updates too

haha yeah, the 2-tone died bad times

but im liking the westy so far!

more updates on the way i hope!
some more interior lighting i feel.

[Liam-westcoast]

they look really good mate!!