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supersport

supersport

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For some reason my brain had an out of body experience and when I went to turn off my harzard warning lights I presses the switch quite hard and in the wrong direction which resulted in the switch going into the dash, DOH!

Oh well, will be a good opportunity to replaced the clock that is unreadable since I have to take it all apart to get to the switch to clip it back on. I am sure I remember some article in 911 &PW saying that you could get them off ebay for about £13! Ha ha ha, whoever wrote that clearly never tried to by one.

So now I have to take it all apart anyway to clip the switch back in, great.
 
mmmm I did the same with the dash light thumb wheel switch [:mad:] Previous owner had super-glued it Cheers Paul
 
The clips that hold all the switches in are quite brittle now no matter how careful you are. Have some epoxy at the ready just in case.
 
Now I know why the button went in, a bodger has been at work.

Got the facia off only to discover that the clips had previously broken and it had been glued in. Also who ever did it couldn't get the facia out properly so they simply broke it off where it goes under the heater controls and then glued it back together.

So now I have glued the harzard button back in and waiting for it to set and will have to re-glue the end of the facia. Either a previous owner didn't take the heater facia off or did so and like me couldn't see how to get the heater controls out after removing the four screws and decided to simply break it. It seems to be quite tightly wedged in.

I guess this bit of facia is damned expensive so not worth fixing properly.

 
Yes the clips are quite fragile, whenever I took the facia off on either of my cars to replace the clock bulb I broke the clips.
Luckily I always had spare facias then, but most breakers I visited had facias with broken clips!
 
I guess this bit of facia is damned expensive so not worth fixing properly.
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Ironically it's not, or at least it wasn't when I last bought a few bits. All the brittle pieces on the dash were about £20 new. The only issue was that the finish was very slightly different, and they didn't have the white paint on the air-vent slider bits.

I don't know whether the new parts are manufactured differently, from different plastic, whether the old bits change texture or my dash had been very well polished, but I ended up going for a good used part and selling the new one. Ended up going for more on e-bay than it cost, I guess people just can't believe new parts are still available for less than second hand in many cases. [&:]
 
ORIGINAL: supersport

Now I know why the button went in, a bodger has been at work.

Got the facia off only to discover that the clips had previously broken and it had been glued in. Also who ever did it couldn't get the facia out properly so they simply broke it off where it goes under the heater controls and then glued it back together.

So now I have glued the harzard button back in and waiting for it to set and will have to re-glue the end of the facia. Either a previous owner didn't take the heater facia off or did so and like me couldn't see how to get the heater controls out after removing the four screws and decided to simply break it. It seems to be quite tightly wedged in.

I guess this bit of facia is damned expensive so not worth fixing properly.
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your previous owner .... did he he stick all the broken stuff with gaffa tape and superglue and was his name Paul by any chance ?[:mad:] same PO as mine grrrr ( apologies to all the really nice Pauls out there that did not sell me my car lol

 
I don't think he was called Paul and I haven't found any gaffer tape yet. Paul may have been the previous owner of my 911 as the number plate lights were all glued into place with more glue holding the light holders together! Annoyingly the replacement parts are very cheap so there was no need to resort to super glue.

Well everything is now back together having been re-glued and you would never know. If the button goes in a gain, I will simply get a new facia as I had no idea they were so cheap.

It all came apart quite easily although following the instructions on Clark's garage I couldn't get the heater control unit out after removing the screws. It seemed quite solidly wedged in and I didn't want to break the clear plastic surround.
 
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