Wow they did a great joB

The badge from the TRD horn button fits the 7gc wheel, but leaves a small gap around the edge of the TRD badge. I have a picture of it in the thread for my Supra.

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Cool thanks I'll have a look. I can make vinyl stickers in work as we have a sign cutting machine so I may do that. Not sure yet. Or I could make it out of Perspex as we have a CO2 laser machine too. Engraved and painted from behind with a polished front would look good. I only worry that a piece of 1mm perspex might be dangerous in a crash. I'd prefer a soft rubbery badge.

To make the center of your steering wheel less shiny, hit it with dishwashing soap and water in a spray bottle about 5 times and dry with a paper towel between each wash, it'll dry it out the leather a lot (if it is leather... I'm not too sure, but its worked on other leather products I've done before. I did it to dull out leather of different ages and wear, and then you condition afterward at one time so the finish color, texture, and sheen is all the same If the center isn't leather, I'm not sure if it'll work

This post has been edited by Noahwhite2014: Jan 28, 2015 - 2:58 AM

The tweeters can be spliced into your door speakers.

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No it's plastic, thanks anyway. I'm not sure if they cover those things with leather. I may try sanding the airbag with some micro fine sand paper sponge stuff, I think it's like a 1200 grade or so. That should make the plastic more matt. I'll test it on the old wheel as that's going in the bin anyway.

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Hurrah!! This is great news!!! Thanks for that! Do you connect them directly into the + and - of the door speaker right? This will be very easy to do. I will be changing the speakers too at some stage. I discovered that one has been replaced already. Some time ago by the look of it too (its cheap looking and filthy).



Some more stuff arrived by post today. A nice chromed keyring and some carpet logos. The logos seem to be an aluminium alloy, so and quite soft and prone to scratches, so I dunno how long they'll last. I guess a careful sanding with make them look new again when they become old and tarnished. I don't have any carpets yet, so that's a future problem. My girlfriend refused to drive the car with the old ones in, so I had to remove them.


So today the news is that I fitted the 7th gen wheel.


I had a few problems installing it, amateurish stuff really. Couldn't get one of the airbag screws out of the old wheel. One came out fine with a flat screwdriver, the other bent the head of the screw driver. So I "borrowed" some heads from work. Those odd star shaped ones. Yeh, the medium sized one fitted and with a bit of elbow grease that stubborn screw came out. Then the airbag still didn't want to come off, until I completely removed the screws from the wheel.

The wheel came off easily using a tire iron and then a wheel puller I got from Ebay. I knew the size was a metric 19 or something (and there was no way a spanner could get the angle to get purchase on the nut) so I got a tire iron and it fitted the wheel nut. JOY! Off came the nut. The puller I had got was good too, it got tight and then just went "glock" and the wheel popped off. Nice.

The colour of the wires on the new airbag and the column matched (yellow and blue) so I soldered in the new connector to the old column wires and insulated the wires carefully. I then hooked up the horn connector too.
Once the battery was re-connected there was no explosion (I started the engine too) or SRS light (fortunately).



The photos are a bit crap to be honest, 'cos my car is underground and they don't believe in electricity there. So I tried different ways of lighting to get some photos. I'll try and get some in daylight, 'cos who doesn't enjoy a good photo right? The cars a mess inside I know, I'll be doing a bit of a tidy tomorrow as I still have to install the 2DIN. I have already made some brackets, just gotta make them fit right.

Just a quick update. I made some mounting brackets and fitted a universal 2DIN cage. It took quite some time as I wanted it set in quite far so that I could have the face of the 2DIN behind the console and not protruding from it. The lining up and fitting of the brackets and the cage was very time consuming and annoying, but finally I got it more or less where I want it. So I plugged in the harness and connected the subwoofer. I didn't connect all the random wires (camera, lights, reversing light etc) as I had no time.

Later I discovered that the clock is defective, so I'll swap it for my original one. I'll also swap over the airvents as these ones are filthy and the ones I had before were clean.
I may wrap the console in a stainless steel vinyl wrap also.
Next up, connect the tweeters.

Looks nice!

How is the clock defective? If you unplug it, it resets.

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A few hours later it started showing 16:00 but with a backward 6, like a mirror image of a 6. Very odd, and some of the other parts of the numbers were slightly illuminated too - getting 8s all the time, so I'll just swap my old one in.

The Head unit is a very cheap Chinese one, and froze on me a few times. I'll get a better one at some stage. Meanwhile, I'm planning to make a fake double din front, so thieves don't try and steal my 90 euro DVD player. The worse the fake front looks the better, I'll try and find an old broken cassette player and use that as a cover.

Just a quick update on m y new head head unit. I got an Android one now. It works great, unlike the last new one I got.
https://youtu.be/rZv-V7nLt4Y

Just a quick update: I connected up the Celica Tweeters. As SwissFerdi said, well kind of.

The connectors for the tweeters were already installed in the door! So all I had to do was unscrew the mirror screws, put on the the tweeters and plug the connectors in! No splicing needed! wooohoo! Sounds good too. Joy Joy!



This evening I also drew up some stuff with Autocad as I will be making some Horn badges, engraving some vent symbols on to my freshly painted dash parts, and I also drew the rear wing SSIII logo even though I don't have one...

If anyone wants these drawings send me a message and I'll email them to you. I have them in Autocad, and they can be opened by most programs like Corel Draw (which is what we use in work).
I have no clue what size the SSIII logo should be. Anyone know? I traced them all using photos (including a ruler for the vent symbols), but have no clue of the SSIII size and I think the horn badge for a 7th gen is 30mm or so. I'll check my horn.

I hope to make some snazzy new badges for my horn with the CO2 laser soon.

By the way in the vent symbol I drew a Celica shape instead of a generic car shape. Line thicknesses will need to be changed, a bit of trial and error before any engraving, but for vinyl cutting no mods needed. If you can find a sign cutter or a company with a laser cutter and someone with experience with engraving, then there should be no problem in making some nice stuff.





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I now have the SSIII splitters fitted, and have the Euro splitters lying wrapped up in a box waiting. I won't part with them until the SSIIIs pass the car test next year.

>>I finally got around to painting my console again. I put a thick coat of 2 component primer on and sanded it smooth, and then some silver paint. Well, its more of a grey silver as I didn't want anything too bright. I may put a 2 component clear varnish on top, but I'm not sure. It will make it more durable and shiny, but it might start to have fine cracks as the previous varnish had. I'm going to engrave the symbols on the airvents using the laser machine.>>

three years I ignored this thread... What a mistake. Now I see real enthusiasts are still around . Great progress and perfect taste

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>>This week some goodies arrived. Got some leather For the handbrake and the central armrest. I got them on Ebay from Topgaiters, a UK base firm that does some nice stuff for 6gens. Theres no import charges to Spain and fast delivery so its great. >>




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>>I decided to cover the original armrest with the new leather and keep the dark red one.>>>>


>>I got a Sony RM-X4S to hook up to my Android head unit too. I'll do that next week.>>


>>I prized off the 7gen airbag badge. It is very flimsy. Its just like a pin badge but without any rear support and so bends super easy. No prob as I'm making my own badge shortly. It's 40mm in diameter.>>

>>I finally engraved my console icons with the laser. I think it looks good but the central console has one of the icons slightly off center. I guess I must have drawn it that way. I didn't have time to change it. A shame really>>.

NIIIIIICCCEE!!
the engravings look great

that's a great idea. nice!

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^ Mine has dents exactly identical to this.... Same guard too... Weird

>>Thanks for the comments guys!

Some more goodies arrived this week. 2 LED boards for the dome light, and a USB and audio input for the cigarette lighter.

I won't start smoking and my head unit has a GPS built in, so no need for that lighter socket. USB much more useful.>>

>>Today I put my console back together. I also wired up my Sony RMx4s and was disappointed as it wouldn't control the head unit properly. Only the seek up and down switches worked. I programed them as volume up and down, but it was disappointing that no other button would work with the Android head unit. I looked around online and it may need an extra resistor.
I also plugged in the USB in the cigarette lighter socket place, and was disappointed when the USB thumb drive I was using had a bad connection and the music would skip or the drive would disconnect completely. Just not my day.>>

Well good news, after 8 months off the road I finally sent her for the Spanish ITV (national car test). She failed of course, emisions and whatnot, blah blah, but I hadn't driven her for 8 months, so the battery died a death and was not recoverable despite being new 2 years ago. Well, the good news is that my TRD splitters passed the test no problem, despite the fact that the rears weren't really glued on well. So my 2 original EURO GT splitters are sitting in a box in the spare room doing nothing. Gathering dust I suppose. If anyone wants them, I'll find out how much postage cost to werever you are is and post them to you. I don't want profit. I love these vehicles. First come first serve....

I've found that sending them to the US is horrifically expensive - about 120euros. Kinda ridiculous really. I'd reccomend Europe only.







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Update: I got a job driving for Cabify (which is like Uber) so I needed a parking space so I could go home for lunch and have a place to park the KIA Optima. So I parked my Celica in my in-laws house 200 miles away. They haven't complained yet, so all is good. One day I'll get Celi back on the road. I miss it.

You did a lot of nice mods that I never saw. Good stuff.

Its been a few years, but the Celica is still Hibernating. One of these years I'll get her out, put some new tires on her and get her road worthy.

Maybe next year? Here's hoping.