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dstocks
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by dstocks » Sat Mar 27, 2010 7:53 am
They are a compliance modification. The original car never had them (and they arent required for compliance anymore) Each one will be pretty much different, so best bet is to make your way to an electronics shop (like tricky dickies) or you can remove it completely by joining the original 2 wires back together.
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by silverGPX » Sat Mar 27, 2010 10:46 am
Yea im missing mine as well. Just go to the wreckers and look around till you find something suitable, thats what im going to do.
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by Bennoz » Sat Mar 27, 2010 2:59 pm
Nah, as dstocks said above, they are no longer required. Just pull it out & bridge the wires off it.
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by Shhtuart » Sun Mar 28, 2010 12:06 am
You guys are a wealth of knowledge.
I'm not too confident in doing any wiring work yet, even simple bridging, so I'll just look for a nice looking dial that fits
Thanks for your help everyone
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by dstocks » Sun Mar 28, 2010 6:22 pm
Its really easy. Just follow the wires back from your existing dimmer switch and youll find that they both join to a green wire with a white stripe (At least that is what the one in the car I checked on the weekend did). Unsolder the join and join the green white wires together (they were the same wire originally and were cut). And thats all there is to it.
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by silverGPX » Sun Mar 28, 2010 9:24 pm
Wouldnt he have a big ugly hole left in the plastic afterwards as well?
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by dstocks » Mon Mar 29, 2010 3:13 pm
put in a "turbo" button
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by Astron_Boy » Mon Mar 29, 2010 3:45 pm
Is that why my RVR doesn't have one
ended up grabbing one from a Nimbus.
FTO came with the dimmer light, but only adjusts the dash lights, no others.
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by silverGPX » Tue Mar 30, 2010 2:21 am
Astron_Boy wrote:
FTO came with the dimmer light, but only adjusts the dash lights, no others.
same
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by dstocks » Tue Mar 30, 2010 1:29 pm
Thats because its a bodge job!
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by silverGPX » Tue Mar 30, 2010 4:41 pm
im gonna bypass mine as well, probably has resistance in it as well so i might get brighter dials.
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by silverGPX » Wed Apr 17, 2013 11:41 pm
silverGPX wrote: im gonna bypass mine as well, probably has resistance in it as well so i might get brighter dials.
lol still have not done this, but i have done Sahins, so ill do mine now lol
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by BorepYano » Wed Apr 17, 2013 11:50 pm
dig dig
kiz wrote: silverGPX wrote: This requires a thread? lol
There's potential for a thread about anything on FTO Australia
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by Shhtuart » Thu Apr 18, 2013 9:50 am
Jaycar sell them.