J5's Roomster Scout - **SOLD**

[Jonny5ive]

Hmmmmmm........... its not looking good. A quick try of the N/S fog light blank from my father-in-laws poverty spec Roomster and they don't fit :')

The additional surface mouldings on the Scout bumper mean that the locating lugs are longer and the actual plastic insert is shallower. I'll photograph this when I get my blanks from the postie tomorrow.

I'll still be having a play as to whether I can get the 'non scout' round holders attached to the Scout bumper inserts with maybe some fibreglass moulding at the rear, we'll see.

[stratosg]

Skoda... Simply clever... Neahhhh!!! So this project is going to be a non plug 'n' play one but a personal modification one. Hmmm!!!

[Jonny5ive]

Skoda... Simply clever... Neahhhh!!! So this project is going to be a non plug 'n' play one but a personal modification one. Hmmm!!!

Indeed. A personal mission now!!!

[Jonny5ive]

Spent yesterday afternoon with J0hn giving the Roomy a good wash, clean, clay, wash, wax ahead of the Graffiti Tunnel Meet in London last night so today I'm :zzz:

J0hn took some cracking pictures which I have fiddled with in Photobucket. Enjoy.

[Jonny5ive]

Been waiting for a spare few hours to re-tint my fogs. I tinted them earlier in year with some cheap film from eBay, this faded badly (see below). Re done them today using real deal Lamin-X and the results are much better. A better 'continental yellow' that I wanted.

Original tint - too day-glo:

Badly faded film :(

Re-done with Lamin-x

[grafitti]

Very nice retint... definitely looks original. Somehow I associate yellow lights with the French, might be a misconception though.

[Jonny5ive]

Very nice retint... definitely looks original. Somehow I associate yellow lights with the French, might be a misconception though.

I hear you. I always remember the yellow headlights on French vehicles from holidays there as a kid.

Plasti-dipped the chrome on the grill this afternoon. No pics as It's cols and wet and dark, but it does look kinda mean now

[stratosg]

This time the outcome is way better than before. I'd like to see the dipped chrome grill too.

How about the round fogs? Have you abanoned the idea?

[Jonny5ive]

This time the outcome is way better than before. I'd like to see the dipped chrome grill too.

How about the round fogs? Have you abanoned the idea?

I'll have some pics of the grill later today. Fogs, no, not abandoned just a work in progress. Re-fitred the square ones whilst I sort out the rounds

[stratosg]

Great... I cannot wait. You see, as long as I do nothing on my car due to various reasons, I am really excited and happy when others do.

[j0hn]

Like it

[Jonny5ive]

So I plastidipped the chrome grill. In the process I got bored, cold and decided to rush the job by drying each coat with a hairdryer.

It looked good, and then promptly peeled off on a particularly wet drive down the M40 :(

I'll wait for warmer weather or do it inside I think 'cos it did look fookin mean

To console myself I went to the local VW breakers and bought some 2nd hand damped grab handles for £20. Pics to follow.

[Jonny5ive]

****!! They don't fit :(

Exactly the same part aside from the locating lugs for positioning into the headlining. I'll be modifying them slightly to fit as I don't believe the lugs serve any weight bearing purpose, purely for ensuring they go in the right place.

HID's received in the post this week - Thanks Gizmo68 and a SEAT Sport Upper Strut Brace from the 6Y Fabia that I picked up lastnight, 99% sure that'll fit with some small modification to the mounting bracket for the vacuum control box

[bripete]

spending sum money on that rommy barry hope i see you next year at sum of the meets mate

[bowen]

I don't venture out of th e fabia section much; but this grabbed my attention. Looks great.

P.s thanks for the spare wheel!

[Mrs Pingu]

What's the phone mount, Johnny5ive?

[Jonny5ive]

What's the phone mount, Johnny5ive?

They are both Brodit pro-clips with charging cradles.

Bought them from DSL developments

http://www.dsldevelopments.com/

[grr666]

Nice work Barrie, still my favourite roomster.

Yellow fogs eh?

I used some cheap lamin x copy stuff on mine this time,

enough to do them about 10 times for about a fiver on fleabay.

Can't see any difference in the colour from the 'proper' stuff

time will tell if they will fade or not.

[Jonny5ive]

Ok so with Xmas and all that out of the way and a morning to myself sans wife and kids I decided to set about modifying the VW damped grab handles to fit (see post #113). A nice little mod and pleased with the results.

To highlight the problem:-

Although the parts are identical the VW mounting lugs are in a completely different place to the Skoda ones

Deciding that these have no weight bearing duties I promptly chopped them off with a scalpel, sanded smooth and screwed them into exsisting holes in the Roomy

VIDEO - BEFORE:- springy, noisy Skoda handles :thumbdwn:

VIDEO - AFTER:- smooth, quiet VW handles

[Jonny5ive]

Picked up a very lightly used Parrot CK3100 for a smidgen under £50 from eBay complete with VAG loom included

Set about taking the car to bits to fit it:

Interior overhead courtesy light and sunglasses holder removed

Parrot Mic fits nicely into the OEM microphone grille in overhead light unit

Wiring for mic routed inside headlining and down A pillar (with the help of a wire coat hanger)

Routed through bulkhead and over the top of the fusebox towards centre console

Stereo and centre console out to accommodate additional wiring loom and Parrot BlueBox

Managed to find space to the L/H side of centre console for BlueBox which is quite sizeable.

Connected up supplied VAG loom. A bit of extension of the OEM loom for the aux in facility to work with the Parrot loom quadlock adapter and hey presto I have hands-free

Sited the LCD display just below the airvent at the R/H side of the steering wheel using a strip of trim tape and routed the wire in behind the heater vent and back to the centre console using the same route as for the mic cabling.

Alas forgot to take a pic of this

All functionality works well. Need to have a play with the siting of the mic, as although it is in an ideal location cosmetically sound quality for the recipient of my calls isn't great.

I may source another courtesy light console from a scrapper to have a play around with.

[Wardy]

Nice work. I found the same mic issue when I had that kit in the Octy.

That mic design doesn't seem to like being inside the interior light. I found fixing it on the edge of the headlining worked well, just back from where the rear view mirror was. You couldn't really see it when sitting inside the car, and the call quality was much better.

[Jonny5ive]

Thanks for the info. Depending on how cheap I can find a courtesy light at the breakers, I though about cutting out a hole in the grill to poke the Mic out of.

We'll see.

[Wardy]

Seemed pick up wind noise or vibration when inside the light unit. Definitely having the end of the mic exposed into the cabin would be the way to go, if you want to keep it located in the same place.

[richardf]

I've had a few Parrots and the microphone has always been next to the roof courtesy light in the Seats I've had. However I've just had one put in the new Roomster and it is inbeween the speedo and the rev counter, hanging upside down I suppose. It works brilliantly.

[Jonny5ive]

However I've just had one put in the new Roomster and it is inbeween the speedo and the rev counter, hanging upside down I suppose. It works brilliantly.

Interesting. Never thought of locating it there. IIRC its relatively easy to remove the clocks. I'll look into that option.

I was hoping I wouldn't have an obvious Mic (black against the sea of pale grey headlining) but the black dashpod would hide it somewhat