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Coaster 10-05-2022 08:05 AM

Thanks for the update. Do you know if the dot matrix version could be done? They are bi-color (orange and red). Could it be made blue and red?

DarkStar 10-07-2022 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Coaster (Post 649032)
Thanks for the update. Do you know if the dot matrix version could be done? They are bi-color (orange and red). Could it be made blue and red?

Yes. It's just a lot of work. If you have any soldering skills you should be able to do it. You need blue replacement LEDs and to desolder/remove the old LEDs. Solder in the new ones. And you'll have to make some kind of diffuser. The dot matrix screen has a orange plastic diffuser so when you do the Blue color it makes it impossible to shine through. So I made it out of white paper. Which I ended up printing a pattern in gray and white to get the pattern I did (LCARS)

DarkStar 11-09-2022 01:04 PM

Still for sale. This is honestly super shocking to me that nobody wants this.

chromecarz00 11-10-2022 07:30 AM

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Originally Posted by DarkStar (Post 649598)
Still for sale. This is honestly super shocking to me that nobody wants this.

I think once you modify something that's so hard to replace, it gets a bit tighter of a group who would be interested. I think it's pretty cool what you've done, but white would have been a better choice than blue - more classy and in line with the cars' personality.

For me - if it were white and about half the price, I'd be more inclined to scoop it up. Just so you know where I'm coming from.

Thanks,

DarkStar 11-10-2022 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by chromecarz00 (Post 649622)
I think once you modify something that's so hard to replace, it gets a bit tighter of a group who would be interested. I think it's pretty cool what you've done, but white would have been a better choice than blue - more classy and in line with the cars' personality.

For me - if it were white and about half the price, I'd be more inclined to scoop it up. Just so you know where I'm coming from.

Thanks,

Half the price? You can't even replace all the parts I have listed in stock form for what I'm asking. I priced every single part at or below low/average used part prices. And for the color, to each their own. I totally disagree with white and there are others who have tried getting me to recreate the set in purple and ice turned them down for more than half the peice. The only other person that has done this as far as I've seen did it in green. Everyone has their own opinions on illumination color. I wanted the VAG coloring because I felt it was the nicest. That was my taste.

As for hard to replace, nothing listed is hard to replace or hard to find.

But thanks for your 2c

DarkStar 03-10-2023 11:37 PM

Times are rough. I understand and this stuff isn't getting younger. So ill sell it all for 500 shipped. Trying to get rid of the entire car.

DarkStar 03-13-2023 05:49 PM

update with new price and changed the item.

DarkStar 04-15-2023 07:28 PM

And again 😞

DarkStar 05-10-2023 10:56 PM

Up. Porsche is gone. This is all I have left

DarkStar 06-26-2023 03:27 PM

Haven't sold yet.

DarkStar 08-07-2023 11:52 AM

Can't believe not one person wants any of this with all the requests I got to duplicate it. Especially half the price of what all this stuff costs used and plain.

CharlesE 08-14-2023 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted by DarkStar (Post 655058)
Can't believe not one person wants any of this with all the requests I got to duplicate it. Especially half the price of what all this stuff costs used and plain.

Probably because no one's swapping their dash.
Also wouldnt swapping Clusters change the odometer reading to yours.

DarkStar 08-18-2023 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by CharlesE (Post 655242)
Probably because no one's swapping their dash.
Also wouldnt swapping Clusters change the odometer reading to yours.

Odometer is programmable.


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