After all the exterior changes and upgrades it's time again to take on the inside of the car. The carPC touch-only interface is starting to annoy me a little, so time to create some buttons. An iDrive like solution would be nice, so thats what I'm going to build!

Check the progress of the project here on the super special iDrive project page!

For this project I'm using the 3Dconnexion Space Navigator, which will interact with Centrafuse 4 for an iDrive like experience. I've set some requirements for the solution I'm going to make, just to make it al little challenging ;)

1. The panel should be easily attached and deatched from the dash.
2. The panel should be tough.
3. It should look good (of course)
4. The Space Navigator is left in 1 piece for re-use should this not work.

So with that taken care of, time for a design. This is the simple photoshop drawing of what I have in mind:

Check out what happend so far on the project page

It has been a while again since I reported here.. Such a shame, I know.. So here goes again!

About a month ago I stopped at a traffic light, just as usual. My head wasn't in a 'race-mode' so drove of as calm as I could (;)) and then all of the sudden rttrtrrtttrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrtrrrrrrt

Broke the right front axle. That sucked. I just washed it! And it was extra bad, because I just painted the towing eyes a week before! So after towing, I ran to to the front and as if a mirracle had happend, the fresh paint wasn't damaged! Whoohoo!

Thankfully, a donor provided a new axle, and I was on my way again the next day.

And sometimes, a picture just needs to be shared:

And I finally got to do some work under the hood. Mr. Intercooler got properly connected, the towing eyes got a bright new shiny color, Upper and lower strutbrace.. Found a picture lying around, just thought I'd share

and finally le pièce de résistance. The beeza at sundown:

Seeing this picture, I realize I need spacers at the rear again.. 10mm/15mm should do the trick.. right..?

Because JAG hasn't been properly introduced yet, we went out to shoot the promised pictures.

Other then that, I've made some small changes on Xclusion.nl.

First of all, a new category off course: Cordoba Vario.

Next to that is the improved international part. All blog post made in English are found here. We won't translate ALL the posts, but only the ones we think you would be interested in ;) .

For the first time in Xclusion history, we can welcome a new admin. This new guy goes by the name JAG, and he will be posting news about his Seat Cordoba Vario.

No pictures for now, but they will come soon.

For now you can enjoy yourself with a little picture gallery of the spacers we fitted :)

You can find it here

Last weekend we found the time to fit the 50MM spacers on the car!

Here are some before and after pictures! (Click je title to see them :p)

Hi, I'm back again! this time with something completely different!

I have created my first ever app/plugin for Centrafuse, so I hope you like it!
With this app you can see the current weather conditions. I don't like the standard weather plugin, because I just can't read the text on my 7" screen, plus this adds more infos too!
Basicly the app consists of 4 screens:
1: The weather prediction
2: Weather waranings for today and tomorrow.
3: The current temperature conditions
4: An animated rain radar.
This app is controlled with gestures. So when you swipe to the left, it will slide that way. (see video) The text is also touch scrollable!

For now this app is just available in Dutch with info for the Netherlands but I hope to extend it for more countries. I you want this for your country too, please provide me with the following files:
A source with a weather prediction in clear text
2 images with weather warning, and optional a bit of explaining text
A temperature map, or an other relevant image with weather infos
A animated gif with a rain radar.
With this being my first app, all comments, suggestions are welcome!

Pretty YouTube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8x9sixjFzE

Note; This is an external App, so you need to embed it. Windows name is KNMI.

and you need Adobe AIR to run it.

Download = here

As you may have noticed, the website went dark for a couple of days.. It's actually a funny story, I accadentaly deleted the website.. Oops..

So here we are again, with some good and some bad news..

Bad news: turbo broke down..

Good news: Got a substitute

Good news: New exhaust silencer/damper whatever..

Bad news: still have the cat..

Good news: not for long

So, last week we tore down an other Ibiza TDI GT, so now i have some spare parts for mine :)  I will post some pictures soon.. anyways, good to be back.. sorry for the interference

Here's some new pictures I shot today!

Hi everyone!

Because of the growing interest for the Ibiza Project from non-dutch speaking countries, I decided to create a small English part of my blog. Here I will post the progress of the project so everyone can understand what I'm babbling about :p

Please click read more to check out the process so far.

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