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Robin
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7th Jan 06 at 20:49   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
bought satnav, had to recconect my cigarette lighter thingy, but, i lost the magic clips somewhere, so i now have 4 M6 bolts securing my ash tray

where can i rewire the ligher socket to so i can get rid of my ashtray again?
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7th Jan 06 at 20:51   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
do you have a stereo or any of the stereo loom remaining? wire the live to the yellow on the stereo loom and earth the other sumwhere, the yellow is only live when the ignition is on

[Edited on 07-01-2006 by Corsa_Sam]
Robin
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i have the actua;l wires for the cigarette lighter still, i just need to move it so its not in the ashtray, as i never use the asshtray so its pointless
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7th Jan 06 at 20:55   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
i see, any pics of the front inside of your car?
Matt H
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*Awaits Willays "Stripped out racer........... With Sat Nav" photoshop*
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no from the inside covering your dash and below is poss
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so true

but, on the p;lus side, i now have a speedo.... sort of
Robin
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quote:
Originally posted by Corsa_Sam
no from the inside covering your dash and below is poss


er, nope

i have a gay glovebox too, so i cant even put it in there, unless someone gives me a non aircon glovebox???
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just remove the dash rob
Robin
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i might have it flocked instead

im never gonna win this lightness challenge now anyway, so i give up

you win

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you say that, then in 2 weeks time i'll log on to find you've cut the roof off or something
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7th Jan 06 at 21:10   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
this is true
or... i might have 13s on the back, cos they weigh less

wonder if i can get away with only half filling my brake fluid?
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quote:
Originally posted by robmarriott
this is true
or... i might have 13s on the back, cos they weigh less

wonder if i can get away with only half filling my brake fluid?



May as well remove disks while your at it
Robin
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good plan.... if i go too fast, i can always dive out at speed
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quote:
Originally posted by robmarriott
good plan.... if i go too fast, i can always dive out at speed



To save weight?
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yep, i would have less skin, therefore I would weigh less next time i went driving

its a plan with no flaws whatsoever
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Just hard wire the sat nav?
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quote:
Originally posted by ed
Just hard wire the sat nav?


i blew a PDA up doing this!! it has to go through the cig lighter plug there is a step down transformer thingy in there!!
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with a soldering iron and some wire you can hard wire the connector onto a 12v switch live, not very difficult to do really, but dont just cut the cig lighter connector off as said above you will need to step down from 12v to 5v or somwhere around that figure.

 
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