Appreciation

Post by **c_doughty1** » Sun Aug 10, 2014 12:46 am

Massive thanks to @andypont for help today with swapping a digital dash into my 94 analog lude.

Cheers pal loving the the new dials!

andypont · Post by **andypont** » Sun Aug 10, 2014 12:52 am

No worries Chris. Glad to be able to help.

The "S" express · Post by **honda-hardy** » Sun Aug 10, 2014 11:53 am

@AndyPont what dash have you got in yours? A link to the site would be great.

andypont · Post by **andypont** » Sun Aug 10, 2014 12:14 pm

I have the standard dash, but have fitted illuminated "hyper" white clock faces and some stainless bezel rings. I actually bought the clock faces off ebay a few years ago and have been transferring them from lude to lude.

andypont · Post by **andypont** » Sun Aug 10, 2014 12:45 pm

Think I may have already shared these, but seems appropriate to add them now.

Bludge · Post by **Bludge** » Sun Aug 10, 2014 12:57 pm

They look awesome!

Was that an EL dial swap you did with chris? need to try and work out how to get mine in soon! lol.

andypont · Post by **andypont** » Sun Aug 10, 2014 1:02 pm

Thanks.
Yeah. Swapped the EL dash from his 'spare' lude into the one he uses.

andypont · Post by **andypont** » Sun Aug 10, 2014 3:31 pm

duckface wrote:Really like the look of your digital climate control unit @andypont...did you do a guide? How much did you pick one up for? Cheers

No, I have mentioned aspects of the conversion in various posts, but didn't do a guide. it wasn't until I was putting it all back together that I thought about it to be honest.

I paid £100, but for that I got absolutely everything relating to climate control (heater matrix, with airmix motor already mounted, and dash loom etc.) which made it the simplest possible install. Feel free to ask any questions if you get a kit but are unsure about fitment.

Bludge · Post by **Bludge** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 10:53 am

andypont wrote:Thanks.
Yeah. Swapped the EL dash from his 'spare' lude into the one he uses.

Shame you are so far away, i could do with a hand getting mine in!

Looks complicated?

andypont · Post by **andypont** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 10:04 pm

Bludge wrote:
andypont wrote:Thanks.
Yeah. Swapped the EL dash from his 'spare' lude into the one he uses.
Shame you are so far away, i could do with a hand getting mine in!

Looks complicated?

Its not technically difficult, but is a bit of work. We swapped the whole dash over (wiring loom included) so there was only a couple of wires to splice to get everything to work (I think it was an indigolemon write up we used for the fixes). I believe its a bit more involved if using the earlier loom.
The worst bit was trying to remove, and particularly refit, the cable to the heater control slide. Very fiddly and nearly impossible to get to! Luckily it wasn't my car so I left Chris to fiddle with that and swear to himself while I got on with some easier bits.