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**Vr6_Dog** · 04-04-2007, 06:21 PM

do you mean colouring the plastic parts? I.e. around heater controls etc...I have a carbon kit on mine. looks ok cos its real carbonfibre. As far as painting dash I would leave it. I'm considering taking the carbon fibre off mine for the very same reason.

**MattyT** · 04-04-2007, 08:51 PM

Painted dashes look horrifically gay. Sorry, but that's the only way to say it.

I've seen a few and they're ALL hideous.

Spend your money on other things!!

**DubSteve** · 05-04-2007, 08:08 AM

Save your money for a nice turbo

**pommy_golfer** · 05-04-2007, 10:29 AM

No guys, it must have come out wrong, i meant the green lighting on the clocks......ive seen some kits which make them look different colours etc//

**Tim** · 05-04-2007, 10:36 AM

changing dash lights can look cool. But i dont think its worth it.. Its not that easy a job i dont think.

haha sorry i thought the same when u were talking about colouring the dash.
I had horrific visions of this!

**BlackVr6ix** · 05-04-2007, 10:48 AM

I loved the monster tacho in addition to the factory fitted one. if you need to know when to shift your car in everyday driving i think you need a car with one less pedal!

**Tim** · 05-04-2007, 10:54 AM

yeah that shift light must come on at like 5500RPM or something! impressive stuff!

**ScienceVR6** · 05-04-2007, 10:55 AM

i changed the color of my dash lights in my magna, using green and white LED's. looked fantastic, and very clear. It was also a pretty simple job.
Ive looked at doing it to the golf, but the Leds are differant and i need to do some more reserch.

**Tim** · 05-04-2007, 10:58 AM

there are a few writeups on vwvortex i think. From memory its not as simple as just swapping out LEDs and stuff. u need to use the right LEDs in conjunction with the right resistors. or something to that effect. and then if u do the dash u really need to do the heater controls and switches.

**BlackVr6ix** · 05-04-2007, 11:01 AM

its not that hard to do, the hardest bit is pulling the cluster apart to remove the green tinter behind the lcd screens.

i had mine all blue, except the lcd's and it looked crap. so i put it all back to white until i could be bothered doing it properly with cold cathodes or something similar to give a better spread of light as the factory positions give you beams of light with led's as opposed to a shower of light with filiment globes.

**rayray086** · 05-04-2007, 12:41 PM

Originally posted by Tim View Post

there are a few writeups on vwvortex i think. From memory its not as simple as just swapping out LEDs and stuff. u need to use the right LEDs in conjunction with the right resistors. or something to that effect. and then if u do the dash u really need to do the heater controls and switches.

Yeah, I've bookmarked a few links from VWVortex that have come out time to time. I think some of the buttons on the centre console are actually colour filtered so no matter what colour you use, they'll still have a green tinge, but there's a way around it.

Here are most of the links I've come across while perusing the Mk3 forum on vortex:

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=2631861

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=2623012

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zeropost?cmd=tshow&id=2772569

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=2677797&page=3

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1766647

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=3079209