Umognog's Astra Sports Tourer 2.0 CDTi SE

[umognog]

That USB socket looks superb, way better than the one I fitted!!! Do you have a link for it and do the have other colours??

Here you go:


https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=...2780355870

Red & Blue also available, took about 2 weeks to arrive.

I have still to plug in two high current devices and test if the full claimed 4.2A draw is available and not 2.1A shared, but so far so good.


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Update something something.

First, updated the headlights switch.

Made the height adjustment green, altered the fog lights:



Then, onwards with the centre console.

Sorry for the orientation, this seems to be happening alot.



Bottom up, I updated the front 12V to also have dual 5V 2.1A USB ports



The heater panel got the makeover next.




Then the CD400 got the treatment.





10 points for spotting the bad solders/LED's that gave up the ghost very quickly... Probably due to bad solders.

The theme that has been following the car a lot has been blue for icons, green for indicators so far. This followed here, with the knobs also going green backlit but I experimented with the volume knob being visually separate. Not sure if I like this and I make change it when fixing the duds.

Here is the main centre without the GID in full:



Onto the GID

I didn't notice this in any how-2 (probably as everyone has gone android) but as I will be post magic man delivers expensive toys time, I decided to change it now.

The GID here has 16x PLCC-2 side view LEDs.

I did one half blue, the other green to find out what vomit inducing result it would give.

It's really hard to get it to show in photos. For me, impossible. It's not too bad - not quite half n half, the blue is definitely stronger, but the effect isn't too bad. I still think will make this all blue and mkae the IPC green though. We'll see.



Last up, the gear surround ambient light went blue.



The roof ambient is green, can be seen reflecting here. The doors will also go blue as the footwells are going green.

Finally, we get to non LED changes.

First up, I debadged the ASTRA, 2.0CDTI & SE off the car.

No photos of this, primarily as the car still needs the full wash and polish post debadging and I ran out of time. These are to follow.

In addition, the new branding has started to appear.

Old valves:



New valves:



I'm debating on replacing the Griffin, as the only badges I can get from Umbrella is 80mm which is a good bit smaller, but on the sports tourer I may get away with it. New wheel centre caps arrived and these will be getting swapped out soon.

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