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..?

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)

SneakPeak for Wintermode; V1.2

I hope to install it on the car next weekend :)

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!

Het is al weer even geleden ondertussen, en dus tijd voor een nieuw berichtje.

De onderdelen die de voorgaande keer terug moesten naar de spuiter zijn ondertussen weer terug, en ditmaal wel goed gelukt! (foto's komen er aan)

Omdat ik nog even moet wachten tot de achterwielen verbreed worden, heb ik het interieur maar even onder handen genomen. Omdat de tweeter al weg zijn (zie hier) had ik ruimte over.

Klik hier voor de foto's van het mini-project

Afgelopen weeken hebben de laatste spullen ontvangen van de spuiter! Gelijk erop gezet dus, maar helaas bleek er nogal wat kleurverschil in te zitten.. Spulletjes zijn er dus weer vanaf, en gaan terug naar de spuiter..

Deze week mooi de tijd gevonden om alles weer op te bouwen. Stukje bij beetje komt het allemaal op zn plek, en gaat het er ook als een geheel uitzien :)

Nog even wachten tot de laatste delen terug komen van de spuiter, en dan kan hij weer rollen! (Eerst maar even spacers vinden -.-')

Klik voor groot, onderaan voor meer

Moar!!1!

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Gisteren was het zover, de auto is weer terug van de spuiter! Geen 14 kleuren meer bij elkaar, maar 1 kleur, één GELE kleur :p

Vanaf hier kunnen we dus weer op gaan bouwen!

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