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Garth's GTI build thread
Rich:
Loving all you touches up mate... car looks fab and i Steel Grey is a fab colour for the GTi :happy2: I'm from Wakefield, which is faairly near Leeds, a few lads are meeting up together sometime from West Yorkshire, so i'll give you a tab when we do :smiley:
If i'm totally honset, I'm not all that keen on the wheels, somehow i don't think they go well with the GTi.
stealthwolf:
Love some of the mods.
How about a guide for changing the LEDs?
Garth:
Thanks for the positive comments guys.
--- Quote from: Rich on March 20, 2010, 02:04:49 pm ---Loving all you touches up mate... car looks fab and i Steel Grey is a fab colour for the GTi :happy2: I'm from Wakefield, which is faairly near Leeds, a few lads are meeting up together sometime from West Yorkshire, so i'll give you a tab when we do :smiley:
If i'm totally honset, I'm not all that keen on the wheels, somehow i don't think they go well with the GTi.
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No probs, I'd be up for a meet sometime.
Don't worry about your thoughts on the wheels. It's be a dull world if we all liked the same things :happy2:
--- Quote from: stealthwolf on March 20, 2010, 05:37:09 pm ---Love some of the mods.
How about a guide for changing the LEDs?
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Thanks. I might do a guide at some point for the LEDS when I get time. I've changed them again.... see below. In the meantime, I did find this one on changing dial LED's and it's the same process for the climate controls:
http://golfmkv.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2242183
HOWEVER, I would not recommend anyone doing this unless they're pretty competent at soldering. The reason for that is that it's easy to balls it up! I did a degree in electronic engineering and I still managed to strip one of the solder pads off. This lead me to have to make a fly wire to repair it as shown below :grin:
Anyway, I have now repaled all the dial LED's from blue to white, which looks much nicer:
And i've re-done the fan speed indicator (AGAIN!), this time in white to match the dials, so the whole lot looks like this now:
It doesn't photograph well and the fan indicator looks much brighter on camera for some reason. Everything matches perfectly in the flesh though :smiley:
In the daytime it looks like this:
I just can't get the climate displays to photograph well, day or night!
I replaced the cruise icon's green LED with a blue one just for the hell of it too, which is nice :wink:
That's it for the interior LED's now, I've got it looking just the way I want it now, it much nicer than the standard multi-colour set up in my opinion :drinking:
WhiteGTI:
Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!! I really wanted to do this to my GTI, but I have about as much electrical knowledge as a goldfish! At times like this I wish I could do all that stuff! Your interior is looking really good now! :smiley:
Garth:
--- Quote from: WhiteGTI on March 21, 2010, 09:05:58 pm ---Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!! I really wanted to do this to my GTI, but I have about as much electrical knowledge as a goldfish! At times like this I wish I could do all that stuff! Your interior is looking really good now! :smiley:
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i might start knocking these out for people if there's a demand. it takes a while to do each one including removal and testing etc, but i've done this a few times now.
I've got to get some money for my wedding somehow!
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