Hampshire Caddy

[Papa Bear]

Made a start on the Audi internal door handle lights today too

[the swan fiend]

You can get away with leaving the shelf in place mate, there’s a little plastic cutting to be done though. As for the A pillar, yeah that’ll need removing. I personally find refitting them a ball ache. There’s a guide in the how to section for the w8 fit too


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[Papa Bear]

Seen the how to and thought, hmmm let’s do some of the existing list first..... is it time to add it yet?
A pillars are a pain I agree, should have run extra wires up it when I ran the power for dash cam and the video wires for the tv but then I should have done a shark fin aerial at the same time
I think I’ll wait until I can afford a shark fin then do the light wiring at the same time.

[petrev]

W8

I got a cheap one from AliX and it seems good quality.
Just getting hard to find grey not beige available there.

£25 vs 70 from other places.

I cut down the socket on the lamp rather than the shelf then soldered a pig tail connection type thing to the PCB. This just had a socket for the original plug to go into on the end. Plus that extra dimmer wire soldered to the board.

Had to Dremel a couple of tiny grooves into the shelf to locate the 2 spring clips on the front edge of the hole.

Pain in the neck that A pillar trim

[the swan fiend]

Yeah, you’ve been busy enough, you don’t need any more ideas for a few weeks
I’ve had mine off a few times, and I ended up taking the van to VW to have the trims refitted the last time. They’re never coming off again!!


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[petrev]

"... never coming off again."

Hope for your sake you're right.

[Papa Bear]

I removed one of the middle clips the first time as it just wouldn’t go on, it bowed in the sun so last time I put it back and managed to fit it properly.

[Caddyluv]

Put the clips in the trim.... open the door and guide them from looking in from the windscreen. Easy... mines been off like at least 4 million times.


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[the swan fiend]

@petrev, I’m quite often wrong, but this time I am definitely right!!
@caddyluv, some lads do find them straightforward to do mate. If you ever have yours off again. Do a how to and throw it on YouTube, you could save us our sanity


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[Caddyluv]

All my cables are currently in I think but yeah of course.


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[Papa Bear]

@caddyluv I do mine the same way. Helps being tall too. 6’7” got to have some advantages

[Ste_J]

@the swan fiend

I was thinking more along the lines of the next time @caddyluv takes the A pillars off then give us all a shout to head round and have a lesson

I was speaking to SCR recently about headlining and even they cursed at the thought of lining the pillars


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[Papa Bear]

They are bad enough to get on without making them tighter by covering them

[the swan fiend]

I watched the VW guy do mine. He had a few trim tools to manipulate them on. Even he said they were a pig.
To think, the guys in Poznań who fitted them when they were making the 2k will have had them on in seconds.


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