My Sable 2005 MR2 - shnazzle

[shnazzle]

Just went out to fix the wiring. Didn't get far before the heavens opened.

Managed to take out the dashcam wire and the wiring for my reversing camera which I don't have and likely won't ever have again.

I left a twin wire cable that I pulled from the engine bay into the cabin that I used to power the reverse camera. Might need that again someday for a gauge or something. Un-earthed it and tidied it away near the ECU.

I was about to undo my open loop trick activation button so I could tidy that wire up under the console and under the carpet,but then rain happened.

Next is to put my ashtray/cupholder unit back in under the radio to hide all the lovely wiring. Tempted to take the DAB back out.
Tried it a few times and frankly I'm 100% advert intolerant.

Will need to rethread pretty much all bin bolt holes and use new bolts to get the door back on.
Then a good vacuum and wipe.
Inside of the windshield is hacky as well

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[shnazzle]

There

[2 of the left]

Get rid of those cheap mats !! - Go to Mr T and get yourself MR2 replacements or change your footwear!!!

[shnazzle]

Get rid of those cheap mats !! - Go to Mr T and get yourself MR2 replacements or change your footwear!!!

I shredded the last OEM mat. Until I figure out what the hell Im doing,I'm not getting good mats
Might get so lovely rubber mats  s:) s:)  or do away with mats and carpet entirely haha

[shnazzle]

Changed the pcv. Was surprised how much oil was on/in it. Not dripping or anything but does show that a bit of oil does travel through there into the intake. Hardly the end of the world but another long-life maintenance piece done.


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[jvanzyl]

Be interested to see what it does to your oil consumption?

[shnazzle]

Seeing as the consumption I did have is damn near unmeasurable... I doubt much  s:) s:)  

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[shnazzle]

LEDs out, replacement bulbs in.
Not worth it. Looks really funky and cool at night but a bit patchy and crap during twilight

[Call the midlife!]

LEDs out, replacement bulbs in.
Not worth it. Looks really funky and cool at night but a bit patchy and crap during twilight

Is that the back or front of the panel? I've never had mine off but I've got no illumination behind the 30mph area so assumed the bulb was out. But if that's the front then there doesn't seem to be a bulb in that area at all?


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[shnazzle]

LEDs out, replacement bulbs in.
Not worth it. Looks really funky and cool at night but a bit patchy and crap during twilight

Is that the back or front of the panel? I've never had mine off but I've got no illumination behind the 30mph area so assumed the bulb was out. But if that's the front then there doesn't seem to be a bulb in that area at all?


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That's the back with all the plugs removed. It's a terribly easy job to do and a full set of 10 bulbs is 5.40 from your local Toyota.
Worth replacing them all for the sake of the effort.

[Call the midlife!]

LEDs out, replacement bulbs in.
Not worth it. Looks really funky and cool at night but a bit patchy and crap during twilight

Is that the back or front of the panel? I've never had mine off but I've got no illumination behind the 30mph area so assumed the bulb was out. But if that's the front then there doesn't seem to be a bulb in that area at all?


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That's the back with all the plugs removed. It's a terribly easy job to do and a full set of 10 bulbs is 5.40 from your local Toyota.
Worth replacing them all for the sake of the effort.

Makes better sense now if the bulbs push through from the back, I'll add it to the list!


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[Justin.D]

Are there 11 bulbs? What's the one on the far left in the pic?

[shnazzle]

There's 10. Unless I've always missed one. The 4th from the left is empty.

[Justin.D]

There's 10. Unless I've always missed one. The 4th from the left is empty.

Thanks. I couldn't tell from the pic. I guess I'll be ordering a set and finding out for myself the 4th from left is empty   s:lol: :lol: s:lol:

[delhusband]

LEDs out, replacement bulbs in.
Not worth it. Looks really funky and cool at night but a bit patchy and crap during twilight

Did the LEDs bulbs that you used to have in need any mod in order to work? (I mean, did the dimmer work with the LEDs - guessing possibly not - , and if not was it just a case of leaving dimmer at full?)

[shnazzle]

Nope all worked fine. The only thing that's different is that the LEDs are polarity sensitive. And there's no indication of which way around d you need toy put it in. So it's a case of trial and error. Other than that, straight fit

[shnazzle]

As Simon (Mondo) already posted, as of 22/09/17 the car has a freshly retrimmed interior. I'm going to blatantly steal some of the pics and post here for logging purposes.

I'm really happy with this and the workmanship is seriously impressive. Not a stitch out of place.

One thing I really like is the "MR2 Roadster" embroidered into the seats.
There's some history to this.

Simon didn't have a good template, so I had to quickly provide one. Found a very grainy version online and a friend in the US kindly modified it to be smoother and in correct proportions.
There were some quirks on the "oadste" part of the text. The letters came out a bit cartoon-y and warped in the software conversion from grainy to vector.
I thought, it doesn't matter... The embroidery won't be that precise.

I was wrong... The embroidery copied every pixel of the logo.
But... I love it! It looks sweet and the little quirks in the letters are unique to my car. Makes it "mine".

[Bernie]

Looks great Pat love the steering wheel too  :-) :-) :-)

[shnazzle]

Thanks. The wheel is particularly nice indeed. It's a very nice place to sit at the minute.

Need some new mats,and then to finish this and some other bits:

[MisterK]

As Simon (Mondo) already posted, as of 22/09/17 the car has a freshly retrimmed interior. I'm going to blatantly steal some of the pics and post here for logging purposes.

I'm really happy with this and the workmanship is seriously impressive. Not a stitch out of place.

One thing I really like is the "MR2 Roadster" embroidered into the seats.
There's some history to this.

Simon didn't have a good template, so I had to quickly provide one. Found a very grainy version online and a friend in the US kindly modified it to be smoother and in correct proportions.
There were some quirks on the "oadste" part of the text. The letters came out a bit cartoon-y and warped in the software conversion from grainy to vector.
I thought, it doesn't matter... The embroidery won't be that precise.

I was wrong... The embroidery copied every pixel of the logo.
But... I love it! It looks sweet and the little quirks in the letters are unique to my car. Makes it "mine".

That looks great Pat and the logo on the seats has come out really well.  Like Bernie, I like the leather on the steering wheel - it really adds to the look.
When I got my seats done a few years ago by Harry at LSC I was lucky and he did the seat embroidery for me and it turned out exactly as I wanted.  I think mine was the last set he did, as has already been pointed out, the font used was exclusive to Toyota, or very close to it, so could have been questioned.

I must admit that the interior refresh was the best upgrade investment I've made to the car and I would recommend it to anyone.  

Your new interior looks excellent and as you rightly say, the font on your seat logo works well and is unique   s:D s:D

[delhusband]

Nice, love the stitching also, great work  s:) s:)

[Treboeth]

In all honesty those seats look awful   s:wink: :wink: s:wink:  



Out of the goodness of my heart I will Paypal you £50 to send them to me so you don`t have to have them in your car and I will hide them away in mine   s:D s:D  



















Very nice and some damn fine work  s:mrgreen: :mrgreen: s:mrgreen:

[rich_p]

That is a really classy looking interior now.
Mondo has done some excellent work there, I've one of his steering wheels in my Celica and it's a beautiful thing, still looking good after 2 years of service!

I've been planning to have him do a few little jobs on my roadster at some stage too.

[Mondo]

I must admit that the interior refresh was the best upgrade investment I've made to the car and I would recommend it to anyone.  

I agree with this completely, and not simply because it's my line of business. Any car, especially a convertible, will invariably be transformed by a new interior but for some reason it seems to be the one area that most people either ignore or spend the least on...

Which is strange as it's the one part of the car that they, as the driver, see the most of!

[manos3003]

Looks smart mate. Two things:

1. Those heat knobs could do with relocating. I've driven one like yours and I switched them on every time I changed gear  s:lol: :lol: s:lol:

2. Keep those seats fragrant-free  s:P s:P