Just read the whole thread, Car looks great, some quality work gone into it.

 

One step closer.



Great headunit for the price.

 

i love threads like this.

id have kept the leather seats personally but the work you have done so far have been good mods.

 

Cheers. Just not a fan of leather. Looks tired quickly lol.

Hopefully have some thing special in the plans nothing major but will look cool.

The LEDs etc will be here mid week so can get soldering.

 

At night

 

Got on to the hardest part of the mod, the hvac unit.

There are a number of guide on how to do this, so ill just show the results.





Then I moved on to a bit alot of people don't do, the door switch.



And here's the buttons with fresh bulbs



I'm still waiting on the LEDs for the ignition ring a *** lighter, they should be here tomorrow along with my new camera.

On a side note the new hu auto bluetooths every time

 

Pop round and do mine next!

 

jake

 

ummmmm




jake

 

Either you've just fitted air bag suspension that drops quicker than clouds move or Photoshop says u r thinking of a drop does look good low!

 

while i have had air ride on two cars





air for a scoob will be alot lol

 

Bloody hell! Jake at Panel Care in rochdale? I thought it might have been you! We dont know each other but Ive followed a couple of your threads on UK-MKIVs and enquired a couple of times about paintwork.
Can I PM re bodywork?

 

Sure lol

 

new center caps

 

Today did something about my seats, anyone who's been I a hawk knows that the seats are no longer the nice tight supportive seat they used to be, now I could and nearly did buy jdm version 9 seats, but there wrong for the car and also have no airbags.

So what to do.

Unzip the back of the seat



Then decided to remove it altogether, battery off and unclipped, and put on my bench

You need to take the side plastics off, couple of screws and a bolt



The seat covers use the normal plastic snaps so come off easy

Now my right lower bolster was starting to compress due to getting in/out etc so looked at that too

Once you have bit off the foam can lift off, this is the bit that rubs through



So I used a low density foam to cover it.

Then set about making new bolsters



The foam layout is hd and ld foams once I was happy I permanently attached them with duct tape.

Left side done right oem



Once the bottom had been done I moved to the upper back,
This has three springs along it. You can pulley these back and stretch them, this takes the push effect out of the seat. I also did this to the base.



I ran out of big pieces of foam so got a bit of new carpet underlay for the bolster.

I traced the black parts if the seats a d installed the foam



Then from the back of the seat I added son smaller hd packing around the rib area. I also took out the middle spring

Once you've sat in it and are happy build it back up and your done



The seat feels 100 times better.

 

I tried these out once they were re - fitted & I do agree The seats do feel miles better now.

Nearly as comfy as mine

 

Do you reckon this could be done to the stock leather spec d seats too

 

Don't see why not bud

 

Roof vent will be here tomorrow

 

thats my next mod, gonna get frayz to do it for me.

 

If the courier decides to deliver tomorrow

 

He better lol

 

How's the LED arrangement in the door controls Jake? Bulb swap or recolouring tints?

I've been playing with my HVAC bulbs loads over the past 48hours as the light distribution wasn't quite right. I ended up removing the clear plastic lense type thing which is moonshaped and runs the depth of the ****. This allowed my wide angle LEDs to work properly and it looks tonnes better.

Your brightspots don't look too bad though, so probably not worth the effort

 

I removed the plastic bit your talking of already that's why

It's the camera that makes then look wierd to the normal eye there even.

The does you need to run 5 LEDs the tap into the door wiring.

 

Cheers Jake, great minds... or something :P

 

Today some more goodies arrived.



Spec c roof vent aswell as the little sun visor that goes inbetweeners the mirror and the windscreen.

I also got some stronger boot springs not pictures. But they make the boot work how it's actually meant to.

I also find myself having dirty thoughts about wheels but we'll see what comes of that, seen as I may have secured a set of tein springs

 

is that a full kit???


full kit shown here mate

http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/show...&highlight=DIY

 

Sorry forgot that bit. It's not.

I have the lower piece coming for the end of the week

Then I can get cutting lol

 

didnt want you to start cutting then realise theres a bit miisng

 

Haha could you imagine. Tbh this will be the second one I've fitted to my cars. There great mods