hyunelan2
09-07-2004, 12:40 PM
Well, I'm glad everyone has made it back to the boards following the holliday. Mine was the reverse of productive, as far as the car goes.
1st, i was planning on installing the multi-gauge, but KSPEC still hasn't got the new gauge faces to me. I don't want to put the thing in and take it back out and put it back in again... so that plan got scrapped
So, I decide to start with a car wash. As I start rinsing, I go to turn the nozzle from focused beam to spread, the soap on my hands makes the nozzle slip and BANG! right into the C-pillar. Nice new ding on the car !@#%!
Then all washing trama aside, I'm thinking "I need to get something done." I didn't feel like rotating tires, so that left installing the interior neons I had for a few weeks now. 2 10" sticks from ebay, nothing fancy. They came with those plugs for the cig-lighter, so I cut those off. I took off the appropriate panels, mounted everything, ran the wires over to the fusebox. Got my inline fuse, switch, relay all set. Hooked up the lights and... nothing. WTF? So I try again... nothing. Take one out to see what the problem is. Well, usually the negative wire is striped... in this case the positive wire was striped. Burned up the inverters on both neons - trashed. Waste of project. My fault for not verifying the wiring, but comeon... backwards?
So, I went and bought a new video game (SRS). Car season is almost over anyway. I'm putting in those multi-gauges and that's probably it for this summer. I have a DC/AC inverter somewhere that I might try to wire to make those neons light again... if not, oh well. Not like they were extremely expensive, but I'd like to use them.
sigh.
1st, i was planning on installing the multi-gauge, but KSPEC still hasn't got the new gauge faces to me. I don't want to put the thing in and take it back out and put it back in again... so that plan got scrapped
So, I decide to start with a car wash. As I start rinsing, I go to turn the nozzle from focused beam to spread, the soap on my hands makes the nozzle slip and BANG! right into the C-pillar. Nice new ding on the car !@#%!
Then all washing trama aside, I'm thinking "I need to get something done." I didn't feel like rotating tires, so that left installing the interior neons I had for a few weeks now. 2 10" sticks from ebay, nothing fancy. They came with those plugs for the cig-lighter, so I cut those off. I took off the appropriate panels, mounted everything, ran the wires over to the fusebox. Got my inline fuse, switch, relay all set. Hooked up the lights and... nothing. WTF? So I try again... nothing. Take one out to see what the problem is. Well, usually the negative wire is striped... in this case the positive wire was striped. Burned up the inverters on both neons - trashed. Waste of project. My fault for not verifying the wiring, but comeon... backwards?
So, I went and bought a new video game (SRS). Car season is almost over anyway. I'm putting in those multi-gauges and that's probably it for this summer. I have a DC/AC inverter somewhere that I might try to wire to make those neons light again... if not, oh well. Not like they were extremely expensive, but I'd like to use them.
sigh.