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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: baronvontinkle on 05 May 2009, 17:01
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Might be able to get my hands on some of the above but doesn't come with the twin pole sender. How hard are these to come by and how much we talking for the sender?
Know you can buy the t piece but cant find anywhere that sells the sender.
Thanks
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come up on ebay now & again, sometimes get lucky in the scrappy as well. apart from that they're very expensive new!
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come up on ebay now & again, sometimes get lucky in the scrappy as well. apart from that they're very expensive new!
Thanks dude. Guess i'll be getting down to the scrappy.
Another quick one cos the more i read the more i get confused. Temp sensor. I need an Audi 180 degree sender - 049 919 563 A. Or is is B on the end (one post says one another says the other) Sound about right?
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if its audi gauges ya want audi blue sender, if vw gauges you want a vw sender :)
049 919 563 A - vw temp sensor, white, 0-180 - 13.33+VAT
049 919 563 B - audi temp sensor, blue, 0-180 - 13.33+VAT
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Paid £12 for the sensor second hand off ebay.
I got mine off an Audi breaker that was listed on ebay. I emailed a few and they all had these so plenty out there :smiley:
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Thanks for the help fellas. Guess I'll have to get started on parting with my hard earned cash.
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Just bought some gauges and sensors. Now just need the t-piece and this:
http://www.awesome-gti.co.uk/product.php?xProd=3531&xSec=120
About the above piece. Anybody used this:? Was look in the car eariler and the ashtray and cubby hole thing above it are one piece of plastic. Does this part replace it all or will i be doing some modification to it, i.e cutting out the ashtray and cig lighter part?
Thanks
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I have one o them in my car, you need to chop the ashrtray out and fit. pretty good bit of kit actually, i happen to have a spare face. You get 2 in the pack, the idea is to clamp them either side of the console with the vdo clamps, but I just used a long bit of metal bar to clamp all 3 gauges and the face either end of the console. other option is to glue it in :)
(http://vwtech.no-ip.info/images/golf/dash1.jpg)
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Spare you say? Could i by any chance persuade you to part with it, for a nominal fee of course?
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indeed, I have pmed you :)
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Some good reading here ...
http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=49436.msg939943#msg939943
I made mine from the Audi 80 factory shroud.
From ...
(http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q171/blessani/mini-CIMG6862.jpg)
To ...
(http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q171/blessani/mini-CIMG6917.jpg)
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Using the Audi shroud looks look. Guess that's always an option.
Also i was wondering where to put my cig lighter (if i kept it at all) and you've answered that question for me :D
Just read your guide to installing your gauges and moving the cig lighter. Its amazing! Gonna make my life a whole lot easier :)
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Sorry to bother again. I've read all the articles on this and i know its done to death so you must excuse me because i cant find anything on this.
Gauges got delivered today and they look good (although they did forget the temperature sender!) cant wait to get them in when i get that.
The gauges come with loads of wiring on the back of them. The loom on it is bloomin complicated, changes colour all over the place and its quite hard to follow (can tell its going to be hard wiring either way).
Question is did people use this loom or take it off and wire it all themselves?
Thanks
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Depends on the length of the loom doesn't it? Using a continuity tester will test you what wire is what.
http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=49436.msg942304#msg942304
(http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q171/blessani/vdogauges.png)
(http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q171/blessani/vdogauges2.png)
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Funnily enough i've just read your guide and was coming on to say ignore my last remark because that diagram of yours makes it easy!
Thanks :D
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Well what a weekend! After a small mishap (big pool of oil in the middle of the drive because the t piece just wasn't tight enough) the gauges are in! The look amazing. Didn't have a dremmel so it took some doing aswell. Some points it resorted to a wood chisel and hammer!
Quick question though. What sort of pressure should i be looking at. Mine sits at about 4 all the time. Moving a little bit either way but not too much. That about right?
Here's how they look.
(http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv9/baron_von_tinkle/DSC00442.jpg)
And here's where i decided to put the cig lighter.
(http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv9/baron_von_tinkle/DSC00441.jpg)
Only thing now is the gauges glow red and so does the radio but the dash glows green. That sort of thing bugs me so my next job is replacing some bulbs!
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My oil pressure sits at 4 ish when cold then drops down to about 1.5 once warm.
I also fitted the cig lighter in that area as yours but am now running a votex centre consol which made life abit easier.
I need to get around fitting the oil temp though. Nice work :smiley:
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When the oil is cold on mine, around 5 bar at idle - then when it is at running temp, about 1.5 bar at idle.
At motorway speed at running temp, its 3-4 bar.
Looks like a nice install - but you put them in the wrong order :grin:
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Not been on the motorway but I had a good run round yesterday and it stayed pretty much on 4 bar. Only moving a nats hair above or below. This sound normal or is maybe the gauge or sender faulty? I say them because the car works perfectly.