Paradise of the dashboard lights

mike65

What does your cars dashboard/facia area look like at night?



More to follow tomorrow or monday

Mike.

colm_mcm

tackling the burning issues mike!

OKenora

the fact that i just went out and took these pics has made me realise what a boring night this is, I must be within minutes of keeling over from boredom

unkel

I don't think Mike intended this to be a guess my car thread, but yours is an Alfa, OKenora, isn't it? Looks familiar enough (156?) and rev limit is lowish. So a diesel. 2.4 JTD me hopes?

OKenora

Spot on, 2.4 JTD with a little messing about done, re-map, stainless exhaust, BMC CDA etc etc....

Plenty of pics here

unkel

I'm no fan of that spoiler, but that fantastic diesel engine + re-map in a 156 is one of the best value for money offers ever second hand

Most people don't know but that's the first common rail diesel engine ever. That engine started the diesel revolution. The most significant thing that has happened in car engines in decades!

OKenora

Well at the moment with the Porsche eating money and me trying to save some cash for a 300ZX there's not a lot left for the alfa (especially bodywork). So removing the spoiler would mean 6 holes in the bootlid and a very wet DVD system, not good As you say, the engine is fantastic, about 200bhp out of it now after tuning on a rolling road by Monza Motorsport in the UK. Yes the WRX type drivers can pull away but the look they give you when they realise it's a diesel out accelerating them is priceless.

IrishRover

mike65

He! c'mon guys put some effort in this! I'm getting my tripod back off my sister just for this thread I'll get out of sodium light range to do some proper pix.

Mike.

Stephen

I'll have to wait till its dark to get some of my current car's interior, but here's the old one:



Naturally I don't have it around to take a photo of the complete dash!

JohnCleary

I used to LOVE the custom job i'd done on me little Rover 214, argh t'was lovelyyyy

The BMW is just the normal, boring orange light

jayok

mike65 wrote:

He! c'mon guys put some effort in this! I'm getting my tripod back off my sister just for this thread I'll get out of sodium light range to do some proper pix.

Mike.

I'm waiting for the dark - they extra long evenings don't help!

Stephen

Here we go

Rovi

Hot off the data card-

mike65

Stephen are you driving a jukebox? :eek:

Mike.

mike65

A few more







Mike.

Stephen

Mike: Honda Civic

What're you driving Rovi?

Holsten

That's quite a fancy one, Stephen haha.

Can people post the make too?

Rovi

Stephen wrote:

What're you driving Rovi?

Audi RS6-
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=53268697&postcount=3

Stephen

Ooh, very nice!

Rovi

Stephen wrote:

Ooh, very nice!

I like it

JHMEG

Stephen wrote:

Honda Civic

Love those gauges...

siralfalot

Pretty much the same as OKenora's



and a crappy camera phone pic:

yop

Class Stephen, looks savage,

JoeA3

hard to beat VW blue

Our man in Havana

Can you guess?

Curran

Bond-007 wrote:

Can you guess?

I'll have a guess.........it's a Ford, either a the old shape Mondeo or the Mark I Focus

yop

Not the focus, not sure if its the mondeo either!!

JoeA3

It's a Fiesta or a Puma.

Curran

JoeA3 wrote:

It's a Fiesta or a Puma.

After a bit of googling - i'll agree with JoeA3 - Fiesta or perhaps a Mazda 121 - never been in one - dont know if the dash is the same!!

Our man in Havana

Good guesses. It's a 00 escort estate.

MercMad

Whats with the visors ? Are they aftermarket and is that a fan I see in it ?? (.....oops no I now see its a button set up ! )

siralfalot

yep they are aftermarket, they give me 8gb mp3 storage on a DVD in the player in the boot, infra-red reversing camera, herself can watch a movie on a long trip, or I can watch a DVD while she shops for clothes........... again.............:rolleyes:

JHMEG

MercMad wrote:

Whats with the visors ? Are they aftermarket and is that a fan I see in it ?? (.....oops no I now see its a button set up ! )

More to the point.. what's the system that's displaying on them? Have you a PC in the car? Is than an AC/DC album cover I see?

siralfalot

JHMEG wrote:

More to the point.. what's the system that's displaying on them? Have you a PC in the car? Is than an AC/DC album cover I see?

its a standard in-car DVD player mounted in the boot in place of the CD multi changer, there is a remote infra red eye in the cabin under the headunit

the mp3 player aspect of the setup is kinda redundant at this stage, since that pic was taken the headunit has been replaced and I now have 80gb of storage on an external hard drive via USB

MarkN

Here's mine!

JHMEG

MarkN wrote:

Here's mine!

Backlit steering wheel controls are cool. Totally unnecessary, but cool

cavanmaniac

That an A4 or A3 MarkN?

bazz26

cavanmaniac wrote:

That an A4 or A3 MarkN?

S3 - Check out the logo at the bottom of the steering wheel.

MarkN

As Bazz said.. S3. Hard enough to spot though, 3 badges - on gear lever, rev counter and the wheel! That's it..