Quote:
Originally Posted by jaykay
Dave,
Thanks very much for this. How very fortunate that you have the same model year. I ran a check and it seems that I have made the same connections as you have with the except of the brown blue (pin 21) on the white connector. There are two brown blue wires. I am not sure which one is at pin 8 as shown on the EWD for up indication and which one is 21. Can you remember how they are numbered? I have tried them both but no solid indication with spoiler up. The picture has very few leads coming from the bundle to the switch as compared to what is required. Strange.
I am wondering if I am not getting an indication due to: spoiler drive problem that is not seen as a malfunction; I am not getting ground as I have other items apart in the car or there; or the car needs to be moving and reset, to see a solid up indication.
I was able to test the arrangement outside the car with 12 VDC (your yellow wire) and O VDC on your brown wire and got the LED lit solid. So it is not a switch LED problem.
I have to admit I am stumped at present.
>>I really like your gauge solution and single din plate. Are those white faced VDOs? They look like a great match with rest of the Boxster S stuff
|
Unfortunately I am not going to be able to be very much more help here, as I did my install maybe 3 years ago. The fine details (anything beyond that which I have already posted) are thus lost to the foggy annuls of time.
But I can confirm that the blinking-while-moving LED and the solid-when-up LED can both be seen when the car is stationary and the engine is off, simply by using that manual spoiler switch by the fusebox. (I've just now went out to the garage and have double-checked it)
VDO details:
Please post your pictures of auxiliary center gauges! I really do like these gauges, as their color scheme (white faces, red needles, with black letters and center needle hub "button") is a close of a match as one could hope to find to the OEM gauges. The only (very) cosmetic minor nits to pick are that the round VDO gauge surrounds are bright chrome vs. a less shiny satin silver for the OEM. Also, the OEM gauges use some sort of a weird number font which does not agree with the much more standard VDO lettering font.
To install the VDO gauges, I bought an extra CD slide holder and gutted it, using only the mounting hardware such that it slides and fits into the console without modifications. A 3 mm thick piece of aluminum was used to form the face, holes were cut into it for the pair of gauges, and then it was adhered to the face of the gutted CD holder. The whole gauge package deal easily slides into and out of the console, and it is therefore easily removed with no harm done, should I ever decide to go back to the OEM cubby hole (not likely to happen, but you never know).
Keep plugging away at it!
Cheers - DM