With the impending change to black dash, I saw the covers at GW for the insertion of the seat heater switches and bought it figuring I could obtain whatever I needed later.
Well - the seat heater switches are no longer available, and it left me with a 'what the hell do I do with this now' feeling.
Somewhere I saw a finished product for sale wherby an industrious person was inserting a remote temperature gauge into this housing panel. Perfect use! Got used to having one in all my other cars, liked the idea of having one in the Thingamajigger.
So tonight I played with the Dremel and figured out how easy it is to do this little project. Here is what I learned:
Here is the housing. Official VW part. The switch hole is roughly a full 1/16th too narrow, and the height is off by 1/32nd or so.
When I started Dremeling out the hole, I started by evening the steps on three sides to correspond with the lower step. That gave me roughly half of the width I needed and all the height. Continuing to Dremel the sides finally gave me the width and a straight file cleaned up the corners.
The temperature readout piece was bought at ebay.
The final piece looks like this:
Once installed, it will make a nicely visible readout.
The hole is too large for a standard VW switch. I suppose there are other uses for the housing that could be just as utilitarian. It is not really large enough for a standard gauge pod.
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