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Old 07-25-2009, 03:56 AM
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okay so today has been a very long day. so i ordered me some new gauges. 3. all glow shift.
Boost. narrowband afr, and oil press

and got an A-Pillar pod.

so today was a blast, went to the store to get paint to color match, and i got a shade that was way to light, went back exhanged it for a almost perfect color match.. so yea, heres what i did and how it came out.

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wiring in the gauges was the worst. i made my life 10000x easier by connecting all the wires to 4 long wires.

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and heres how they look.
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and heres a video of the color change feature on them
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snvRNlBiqqA


oh and like i said something else.. decided to repaint my door handles since they were really bad and i had a good matching paint..

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Old 07-25-2009, 01:21 PM
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looks good. how did you get those handles off? i was thinking of doing that too. did you use plastic bonding spray paint or something?
 
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Old 07-25-2009, 05:06 PM
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yea i used Krylon Fusion. its specially made for plastics. the handles were a bitch. theres a screw inside it which pops the black piece out, that reveals 2 more screws. then u need to remove the whole door card, cause theres 2 more screws on the back side behind the leather part. its a lot easier to put back together.
 
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Old 07-27-2009, 12:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Jc61990
yea i used Krylon Fusion. its specially made for plastics. the handles were a bitch. theres a screw inside it which pops the black piece out, that reveals 2 more screws. then u need to remove the whole door card, cause theres 2 more screws on the back side behind the leather part. its a lot easier to put back together.
Krylon Fusion is excellent paint. I used it on my lower grilles and front and rear valences. It looks great and has held up nicely to 5 car washes so far!
 
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Old 07-27-2009, 04:53 PM
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i was wanting to do a single gauage pod for a added boost gauage. where did you get your boost gauage and how did you hook it up?
 
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Old 07-27-2009, 05:04 PM
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Nice! GlowShift makes really good gauges. Not very pricy either.
Is that pod also from GlowShift or did you buy it somewhere else? How much was it if you dont mind me asking?
 
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Old 07-27-2009, 09:38 PM
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149$ for all 3 gauges
19.99 for the gauge pod all glowshift

www.glowshiftdirect.com is the website
 
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Old 07-27-2009, 09:43 PM
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If you buy from them I got a 10% off coupon from buying so much crap...

Use ship10 on your bext order for 10% off it never expires ad can be used many times
 
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Old 07-28-2009, 09:46 AM
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Thanks! But on their website, there is no section for audi. Is it under "Universal" or maybe Volkswagen?
 
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Old 07-28-2009, 12:12 PM
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what color was the handle? i really need to do mine as they're scratched to hell
 


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