Scirocco Central

Booked myself in for some nice upgrades. More info to follow when its all done

Transporting new tv in the car! Supprised how easiy it fit! Practical and fun! Just have to remember to drive carfully on the way home! Don't want a tv flying out the back window

I finally took delivery of a set of mats that I ordered on may 9th. I think they built the car quicker than that

just installed the gas struts for the hood, nice little addon

Went to the VW Garage told them about squeaky windows and rattles. They treated all the seals and put felt under the bits that were rattling all in 10 mins in the car park! No appointment needed Also gave me a free roll of the sticky back felt. Great service.
Got home and put felt under the bonnet stay to stop that rattling and on one of the panels under the car
Hoping rattle free!

Gave it a coat of dodo juice supernatural hybrid [SMILING FACE WITH OPEN MOUTH]

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How did it go ? Look any good?

Went on & came off fine really. Think it might of had a better look now if I'd of done everything in one day rather than since Sunday lol.
Anyway it's like this now



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Dropped off my spare rear bumper and Votex lower skirt off to be painted at the bodyshop.

Replaced my faulty reverse light switch in the gearbox.
Repaired broken wire on my led foglight ballast.
Used Autoglym black dye to darken my honeycomb grille as it was looking a bit grey after having the rest colour coded.

not today but friday - took friend, his dad and son to see pearl jam. rock 'n' roll road trip.

Washed + meg scratch x blemishes
Black cars what a nightmare

six of us from london and the surrounding area went drag racing!!! so much fun. more pics here: http://www.sciroccocentral.co.uk/forum/ ... 18&t=16821" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

easyrider wrote:

led bulbs in footwells at 100% brightness. soon to be turned red.

Looks nice mate! Is it possible you can tell me what LEDS's you used and where you got them from? I've read a guide on here and the ones on it didn't fit fully into the bulb holder.

Cheers

what i found out: everyone says the footwell leds need to be canbus but i'm almost sure they don't. but they're certainly not easy to fit for a novice like me. i ended up buying more light clusters for a tenner from vw as i broke a couple.

eventually realised there're two small pieces of metal on the terminals bent at 90 degrees that hold the led/bulb in from the sides. trying to force the leds in pushes on these and bends the terminals - unless it's perfectly lined up. look close, you'll see them from the side.

so get the led as flat to the connection as you can and perfectly in the middle and ease in with a tiny screwdriver. pushing it in at an angle will bend the terminals, and if you feel resistance, stop and move the led slightly, then try again. only way i could get them in, but they're great and well worth it. bought more clusters than i needed so i've got a red and a white set. easier to change the clusters than the bulbs!

footwells i think it's these:

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and these are great for the dome lights - the 4 smd leds (as above) are SOO bright in the domes. these with two smds (one on each side rather than 4 on one side) are dimmer, with a more even light. kinda rare, too. other good leds from this site too:

http://www.hids-direct.co.uk/501-w5w-2- ... lbs-white/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

i wrapped them in red brake light film (3 layers) (link: " onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) and they're like this now:

easyrider wrote:what i found out: everyone says the footwell leds need to be canbus but i'm almost sure they don't. but they're certainly not easy to fit for a novice like me. i ended up buying more light clusters for a tenner from vw as i broke a couple.

eventually realised there're two small pieces of metal on the terminals bent at 90 degrees that hold the led/bulb in from the sides. trying to force the leds in pushes on these and bends the terminals - unless it's perfectly lined up. look close, you'll see them from the side.

so get the led as flat to the connection as you can and perfectly in the middle and ease in with a tiny screwdriver. pushing it in at an angle will bend the terminals, and if you feel resistance, stop and move the led slightly, then try again. only way i could get them in, but they're great and well worth it. bought more clusters than i needed so i've got a red and a white set. easier to change the clusters than the bulbs!

footwells i think it's these:

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and these are great for the dome lights - the 4 smd leds (as above) are SOO bright in the domes. these with two smds (one on each side rather than 4 on one side) are dimmer, with a more even light. kinda rare, too. other good leds from this site too:

http://www.hids-direct.co.uk/501-w5w-2- ... lbs-white/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

i wrapped them in red brake light film (3 layers) (link: " onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) and they're like this now:

Good job! I take it the red film that you have applied just peels back and sticks on? You don't need a heat gun etc?

yep, sticky backed plastic, no heat gun required - just used a scalpel to cut the overlapping edges / burnish the wrinkles out. i used three layers, could have done 4 but was losing brightness the more i put on.

easyrider wrote:yep, sticky backed plastic, no heat gun required - just used a scalpel to cut the overlapping edges / burnish the wrinkles out. i used three layers, could have done 4 but was losing brightness the more i put on.

I'm tempted to have mine blue. Tricky decisions

the 4 smds linked above have a blue tinge. i tried about 6 different types, all slightly different (some pure white).

Had a Spirited drive this morning with a white 2.0 TDI guessing its was a 170 was fairly quick.
Can you tell the difference between them visually?

Took "Suzie" into a local garage as emissions light came on whilst being down on power. Cylinder 1 misfiring apparently, still not fixed.

Garage provided me with a Mitsubishi Colt, which I only drive around in the dark!