What did you do to your van today?

[LouisAMS]

What is this a picture of?

[Lockstock]

Looks like a set of well used Tappets

[Lockstock]

Fitted new tweeters. If anyone is interested it is a very straightforward upgrade and cheap as chips. I do plan to upgrade door speakers too as waiting on adapters. But tbh. With hindsight, I would do the tweeter upgrade and just sound deaden the door and keep the factory mids.

2016 mk4, with factory tweeters.

Needed:
>Plastic pry tool (remove dash speaker trim)
>drill with 6mm bit
>stanley knife
>solder iron
>Some hot glue (or normal glue and patience)
>little piece of cloth/sound foam
>tiny piece of dynamat(not essential)

Vibe slick 6 tweeters (same as optisound but cheaper!) £25 quid.. sometimes less.

1h job (quicker second time for sure)

1. remove tweeter from dash, disconnect lead. Note which side of connector has brown wire (negative). mark the negative brown side on the back of factory tweeter where it connects.

2. drill out the three hot melt pins that hold the whole factory tweeter assembly to the housing only need to drill the top 4mm bit off so be careful..

3. snip the thin wires between the tweeter and housing.

4. use stanley knife to cut the little bit of black glue that is on the three push clips.

5. pull push clips and tweeter should come out of housing

6. Now we will reuse the connector glued to factory tweeter. gently slide stanley under this black backplate and cut through glue. work way around the edge and it will come away..

7. desolder capacitor and old wire scrap from the factory connector.

8. remove the vibe tweeter casing and surround, you may need to cut the inline capacitor off to do this. dont lose it, as we will have to solder this back on

9. hot glue the tweeter surround on backwards to the dashboard tweeter housing (the tweeter can then fit face down on this with good clearance). three blobs was plenty.

10. hot glue tweeter, face down on this surround. again 3 blobs.

11. Glue the factory connector to the back of the tweeter, with connector oriented backwards (so faces windscreen when you refit)

12. solder inline capacitor back onto positive tweeter wire.

13. solder the negative tweeter wire to the negative connector terminal (we marked this brown, when we removed it). positive to positivie.

14. wrap the loose wire and capacitor in the fabric (vibration foam strip) if you have it

15. refit into dash.

Pictures attached to help understand the above.

these pictures show the tweeter backplate removed, the vibe tweeter surround glued backward (face up) on the tweeter housing, and the finished articles with the new tweeter, mounting ring and factory connector all glued together, with the inline capacitor and wires wrapped in fabric.

[Lockstock]

other pics. these are the factory tweeter before and after removal from the housing

[C Chis]

Made a start on my suspension this week..

Still a work in progress..

Box fabricated


Test fit of the control panel, Grinds unit and power wires along with the front airlines




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[S400ASP]

Should be "Poznan Edition"

Ha ha , never been to Poland Lol!

[Handyandy]

Got round to spraying the new disc protectors this week gave them a few coats of undercoat and just give them a first coat of colour hopefully get the lacquered the weekend

[Handyandy]

Finally found out how to put pictures on without using tapatalk. I've just got to compress my images till they meet the criteria of 2mib yayy

[Lockstock]

Wrapped my scratched and dented B pillar trim

[petrev]

Finally found out how to put pictures on without using tapatalk. I've just got to compress my images till they meet the criteria of 2mib yayy

QReduce Lite - Android app seems to do the job.

Others no doubt work too !

[Lockstock]

swapped the cig lighter for a powered USB with switch.

[S400ASP]

New Gear Stick gaiter back from the trimers


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[Handyandy]

@petrev downloaded the app you mentioned seemed to have good reviews yet to try it so hopefully works well and user friendly as the one I used either got rid of the photo or stored it in some obscure place on the phone

[petrev]

Pulled down my interior light to check wire colours
BCM +Ve is Red/Purple

Gained access to the BCM ...

White plug (middle) has a Red/Purple wire in pos.43

Ran wire from my AUX/Main Battery change-over relay (or a switch) to said wire.
Added blocking diodes to BCM side and AUX side to stop cross feeds.
Joined everything up ...

Now I can use interior front and middle rear lights at any time.
Need to add a permanent GND via a change-over switch in the boot side panel to allow the boot area light to work similarly.

[petrev]

@petrev downloaded the app you mentioned seemed to have good reviews yet to try it so hopefully works well and user friendly as the one I used either got rid of the photo or stored it in some obscure place on the phone

Works for me.
Don't crop, or the resultant odd pixel ratio seems to confuse things ??
Does store in its own folder, but files browser from C2K seems to find OK