Nice jdm fridge in the breaker, I’m having that he says.
Bit grubby and the front piece had faded.
Luckily the aircon pipe bolts came out without snapping (same can’t be said for the rear aircon unit, that’s another thread)
Tested to see if it works, obviously no gas left in the system, but the fans were on all the time. Both the “ice” and “cool” buttons were pressed and stuck down. Took the switch to bits and it was full of grit and crumbs jamming things up.
Contact cleaner everything, blow gun clean and dry. Painted the surround satin black. Oiled all the switches and sliding parts of buttons.
All the other plastic parts went into the dishwasher.
Then there was the matter of repairing the horrible front part. I found a slightly close match of plastic vinyl spray in Halfords, test sprayed a part of it but I wasn’t happy with it. Almost impossible to replicate the raw grey plastic colour. So next best thing was textured Matt black spray. We use this at work to repair textured bumpers. I think it looks slightly more oem being black rather than an obvious wrong shade of grey.
It does look abit odd in bright lights but in the truck it’s not so obvious. Happy with how it came out.
Now I have to drill the hole in the floor for the pipes, mount the two brackets, and remove the original spot welded bracket for the standard centre console. The plug for it is already there.
Bit grubby and the front piece had faded.
Luckily the aircon pipe bolts came out without snapping (same can’t be said for the rear aircon unit, that’s another thread)
Tested to see if it works, obviously no gas left in the system, but the fans were on all the time. Both the “ice” and “cool” buttons were pressed and stuck down. Took the switch to bits and it was full of grit and crumbs jamming things up.
Contact cleaner everything, blow gun clean and dry. Painted the surround satin black. Oiled all the switches and sliding parts of buttons.
All the other plastic parts went into the dishwasher.
Then there was the matter of repairing the horrible front part. I found a slightly close match of plastic vinyl spray in Halfords, test sprayed a part of it but I wasn’t happy with it. Almost impossible to replicate the raw grey plastic colour. So next best thing was textured Matt black spray. We use this at work to repair textured bumpers. I think it looks slightly more oem being black rather than an obvious wrong shade of grey.
It does look abit odd in bright lights but in the truck it’s not so obvious. Happy with how it came out.
Now I have to drill the hole in the floor for the pipes, mount the two brackets, and remove the original spot welded bracket for the standard centre console. The plug for it is already there.
