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Old 12th March 2021, 10:03
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Nice touch, looks really good.
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Old 13th March 2021, 08:01
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Thanks! Been a soggy few days, so haven't made much progress, the paintwork is almost up to scratch (excuse the pun) I fitted some led bulbs in the interior/footwell lights, managed to squeeze in 6x led 38mm bulbs by manipulating the terminals a little bit, also repaired a crack in the dash cowel and ordered a tan stitched leather wrap to cover it.

I like the idea of interior lights to replace the sunvisors, would make a huge difference at night as the footwell lights are only good for doing up your shoe laces
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Old 13th March 2021, 08:08
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Probably will order a pair of these, if I'm having a nice interior, I'd like to be able to see it!

I also fitted some RDX mini led indicator lamps (E marked) as apparently using led bulbs in non led units is now an MOT fail, they are very bright, already I had load resistors fitted, so was only a 10min job, only 2 screws and no messing about with the chrome ring /rubber seal on the old lucas units, will post a pic later...

Todays jobs are to refit the rear lights, I'm going to try some matte black vinyl over the rear centre panel/number plate area, can easily be removed if I don't like it,
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Old 13th March 2021, 08:19
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Probably will order a pair of these, if I'm having a nice interior, I'd like to be able to see it!

I also fitted some RDX mini led indicator lamps (E marked) as apparently using led bulbs in non led units is now an MOT fail, they are very bright, already I had load resistors fitted, so was only a 10min job, only 2 screws and no messing about with the chrome ring /rubber seal on the old lucas units, will post a pic later...

Todays jobs are to refit the rear lights, I'm going to try some matte black vinyl over the rear centre panel/number plate area, can easily be removed if I don't like it,
Hi, looking good, I’ve been thinking about filling my rear centre too .
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Old 13th March 2021, 12:20
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Heres what it would look like
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Old 13th March 2021, 12:24
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Covered the paint in wax to prevent the vinyl from gripping as i didn't want to pull any paint off..... Just been cutting it to size to get the shape I want, then ill draw it on inkdcape and run it through the plotter,
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Old 14th March 2021, 10:11
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Settled on this arrangement, now I can get all the lighting working again....
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Lights are back in and connected up, numberplate send led lamp also fitted.
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Old 14th March 2021, 13:48
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quite nice.
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Old 14th March 2021, 18:50
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Old 14th March 2021, 18:54
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Moody night photo!
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Old 14th March 2021, 22:02
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So, how big a fan of Star Wars are you ?
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Old 15th March 2021, 05:21
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Nicely spotted....... the force is strong with this one! I also have a full size stormtrooper named Gary who lives in my hallway.
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Nicely spotted....... the force is strong with this one! I also have a full size stormtrooper named Gary who lives in my hallway.
I have a Vader
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Old 15th March 2021, 08:13
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Yes my lord! I guess that puts you in charge at the Xmas fancy dress party!
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