Ever since I got Touch HD, I have a few griefs.
One of them is performance. After flashing my HD with Dutty’s V3.9 XT Turbo ROM, I felt as if I have gotten a new toy. But the moment I hold up the phone, the squeak on the battery cover put a big dent on the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘diy’
25 Jun
Cover the Squeak up
23 Dec
Finale of the Trilogy – Shift boot replacement
You can say that it's possibly one of my most-planned modification process, given the stages I planned and went through before ending so far. On the other than, it can be perceived as my typical Singapore kia-see-ism (n – state of afraiding to die) in act, wanting to make sure that everything is in [...]
13 Dec
How to – Removing shift console
Following my successful attempt to remove the shift knob and the shift gate, I was so determined to go ahead and replace my chromy shift cover to a leather boot that's commonly found in the manual version of Bora and Golf. So I did more research, and have several correspondences with a fellow vwvortex's [...]
6 Dec
How to – Removing the shift gate
Following the removal of my auto shift knob and replacing the stock shift knob with MOMO auto knob, I have been exploring options to “perfect” the look, hiding away the bare metal shaft like the picture on the left. One of the option is to remove the shift gate (from the layman point of view, [...]
28 Nov
Removing of shifter knob for 4-speed automatic transmission
Changing of automatic shift knob, to certain people in Vwvortex community, is a taboo, or in a certain VW modification cult group, is socially unacceptable. Well, I must emphasized that such mentality only prevails in a small group of vwvortex'ers, fortunately.
Perhaps, the strong feeling against the act, is based on the assumption that anybody [...]
19 Jul
Major revision of JayKay © T68i phone holder .. upgrade available!
To be published soon …
bookmark this article for future update
16 Jul
Completing the OEM feature, in a DIY fashion
Most of VW cars in Singapore come with euroswitch, which controls lighting systems, such as headlight, taillight , foglight to rear foglight.
If you are observant enough, you realised that the euroswitch has LED indicators to indicate the operation status of the all the lights, except the rear fog lights. Any layman will have this pass, [...]
12 Jul
Color-coding the Volkswagen rear emblem
Color coding the base of rear VW emblem, by removing the emblem from the boot, and spray-paint in a DIY fashion!
After two attempts of color-coding the rear VW emblem without removing the assembly, I decided to take a bold step in stripping the lock assembly so as to have the access of the VW emblem [...]
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