172 Cup
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Ok...
you need:
A switch
Some wire
Some tools
and a cup of tea
First thing you're going to want to do is remove the steering wheel surround.
This is done by removing the 3 torx screws located on the bottom half of the surround, circled below:
The top bit comes off pretty straight forward, however the bottom is kind of held in place by the radio steering wheel remote thingy majig:
You remove this by first removing the two torx screws (different size to steering wheel surround screws) and then pulling it apart (BUT NOT ALL THE WAY OTHERWISE YOU BREAK IT) This is quite possibly the most annoying part, so suggest before you get pissed off with it and kick it off you sit back and drink the tea.
When you finally remove the remote, the bottom half of the column surround just slides off and over the remaining bit left over from the remote. (Seriously haven't found an easy way to remove this, if anyone has, please let me know)
Now you should be left with a bare steering column complete with some wire's lol
On the top on the left hand side you should find quite a large connection block. It just simply pulls out. (No pics of this sorry)
Now for mine I located a switch by my headlight level controller and dash brightness controller:
From here I had 3 wires which ran:
1) Flash
2) Fogs
3) Earth
The Earth is pretty easy just find a nice bit of the dash you can earth to.
I used this location:
The other wire ran to the large white cable on the connector block we removed earlier.
Please note the order of the cables, you want the white cable furthest away from the large blue one:
The third wire connects to the fogs, now he's the fun bit.
At the end of the indicator stalk (inside the column) you have 4 connections.
1 = Front fogs
2 = Dash lights
3 = Rear fogs
4 = Horn
I did think about wiring the horn up instead so when you flash someone you also give them a blast of the horn, but clearly not as useful.
The one we need is the white connection at the top:
Obviously this will only work when the connector block is plugged back in. So don't try testing it with the block unplugged because your indicator stalk has nothing connected to it.
I connected everything up again and tested it before finally securing all the connections.
The switch is obviously ideal because at MoT time you can turn them off so it's just headlights that flash (not sure if it's illegal or not to flash with fogs but you never know).
Either way.
Once you've secured your connections, put the surround back, and then the annoying radio remote (which is just as annoying as removal, I seriously considered leaving this off at one stage
)
Put all your torx screws back in and jobs a good'n
Ok...
you need:
A switch
Some wire
Some tools
and a cup of tea
First thing you're going to want to do is remove the steering wheel surround.
This is done by removing the 3 torx screws located on the bottom half of the surround, circled below:
The top bit comes off pretty straight forward, however the bottom is kind of held in place by the radio steering wheel remote thingy majig:
You remove this by first removing the two torx screws (different size to steering wheel surround screws) and then pulling it apart (BUT NOT ALL THE WAY OTHERWISE YOU BREAK IT) This is quite possibly the most annoying part, so suggest before you get pissed off with it and kick it off you sit back and drink the tea.
When you finally remove the remote, the bottom half of the column surround just slides off and over the remaining bit left over from the remote. (Seriously haven't found an easy way to remove this, if anyone has, please let me know)
Now you should be left with a bare steering column complete with some wire's lol
On the top on the left hand side you should find quite a large connection block. It just simply pulls out. (No pics of this sorry)
Now for mine I located a switch by my headlight level controller and dash brightness controller:
From here I had 3 wires which ran:
1) Flash
2) Fogs
3) Earth
The Earth is pretty easy just find a nice bit of the dash you can earth to.
I used this location:
The other wire ran to the large white cable on the connector block we removed earlier.
Please note the order of the cables, you want the white cable furthest away from the large blue one:
The third wire connects to the fogs, now he's the fun bit.
At the end of the indicator stalk (inside the column) you have 4 connections.
1 = Front fogs
2 = Dash lights
3 = Rear fogs
4 = Horn
I did think about wiring the horn up instead so when you flash someone you also give them a blast of the horn, but clearly not as useful.
The one we need is the white connection at the top:
Obviously this will only work when the connector block is plugged back in. So don't try testing it with the block unplugged because your indicator stalk has nothing connected to it.
I connected everything up again and tested it before finally securing all the connections.
The switch is obviously ideal because at MoT time you can turn them off so it's just headlights that flash (not sure if it's illegal or not to flash with fogs but you never know).
Either way.
Once you've secured your connections, put the surround back, and then the annoying radio remote (which is just as annoying as removal, I seriously considered leaving this off at one stage
)Put all your torx screws back in and jobs a good'n
