Would you?

[pommy_golfer]

What do you guys think of changing the colour of your dash? im swaying between cool and tacky?

[Vr6_Dog]

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]

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]

Save your money for a nice turbo;)

[pommy_golfer]

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]

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!

http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/images/imported/2006/12/mk3blueint-1.jpg

[BlackVr6ix]

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]

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

[ScienceVR6]

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.
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/images/imported/2007/04/smalldials-2.jpg

[Tim]

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]

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]

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