MadaboutKitcars

Nice touch, looks really good.

Thanks! Been a soggy few days, so haven't made much progress, the paintwork is almost up to scratch (excuse the pun) I fitted some led bulbs in the interior/footwell lights, managed to squeeze in 6x led 38mm bulbs by manipulating the terminals a little bit, also repaired a crack in the dash cowel and ordered a tan stitched leather wrap to cover it.

I like the idea of interior lights to replace the sunvisors, would make a huge difference at night as the footwell lights are only good for doing up your shoe laces

Probably will order a pair of these, if I'm having a nice interior, I'd like to be able to see it!

I also fitted some RDX mini led indicator lamps (E marked) as apparently using led bulbs in non led units is now an MOT fail, they are very bright, already I had load resistors fitted, so was only a 10min job, only 2 screws and no messing about with the chrome ring /rubber seal on the old lucas units, will post a pic later...

Todays jobs are to refit the rear lights, I'm going to try some matte black vinyl over the rear centre panel/number plate area, can easily be removed if I don't like it,

Hi, looking good, I’ve been thinking about filling my rear centre too .

Heres what it would look like

Covered the paint in wax to prevent the vinyl from gripping as i didn't want to pull any paint off..... Just been cutting it to size to get the shape I want, then ill draw it on inkdcape and run it through the plotter,

Settled on this arrangement, now I can get all the lighting working again....

Lights are back in and connected up, numberplate send led lamp also fitted.

quite nice.

Moody night photo!

So, how big a fan of Star Wars are you ?

Nicely spotted....... the force is strong with this one! I also have a full size stormtrooper named Gary who lives in my hallway.

I have a Vader

Yes my lord! I guess that puts you in charge at the Xmas fancy dress party!

Got the closest match vinyl on the console, not quite "tan", so I'll probably order some stitched leather to cover it, ill wait til the hood cover arrives to see how good a match the tan leather is

Fitted the leather speedo cover, its a much better match to the mx5 tan colour, albeit some slight fading, of the original dash, getting a price for stitched leather for the centre console and dash surround, think it'll be about £200-250 all in,

Also fitted the wipers, used drilled and tapped landrover defender spindle adapters, the original ones had the grub screws rounded off, i wish these were available in stainless!