So as I've posted on the book of face I'm never one to go tinkering around with my car unless I'm 100% confident that I know exactly what I'm doing and with the TT I'm even more cautious than before.

However, I managed to get a Liquid Gauge off a friend (S3 surround not TT) for an amazing price and couldn't really turn it down.

So today the weather was crappy and I thought "meh another day that I'm not at work with crappy weather"......then I think the TT Gods must have heard and the sun came out and has stayed out all freaking day WOOHOO

So having had the liquid gauge plugged in and just sitting in the ashtray I thought "hmm inters is coming up I need to pull my thumb out my ass", so I got my tool box (yes yes thats right for a girl who doesnt like getting her hands dirty I have a tool box full of tools!!!)

Door open, liquid gauge unplugged I set to work.....

1st port of call was to decide which vent - having a gauge with an s3 surround I opted for the far right one (next to driver on RHD). I got some garden wire and pulled it round the air vent so that it was tight and start to pull out. After a little bit of give and take I was able to then take hold of the air vent and pull it out as a complete unit:



So vent out I then read on another fitting guide that you needed to block the air vent behind with either foam or a sponge (thanks to Jamman), so I bought a cheapo sponge and then cut an outline around the original vent and then cut it out:



So from the other guides and Jamman I was told to put this cut out sponge into the vent behind, it needed to be a snug fit so as to ensure that there wasnt much if any air coming through.

So next stop....how do I get the wire down!!!! Having spoken to Jamman earlier in the day he said get a piece of string/cable tie something that was small enough and long enough to drop through but to be careful of the electric behind the dash.....but where to get the cable out from?! I looked through all the guides and eventually messaged both Duggy and Nem asking for some help (Jamman cant keep getting pestered by me surely????) so both gave a solution.....drop the lower dash or cut out a section underneath. Deciding I really needed to get my hand behind I set about taking the lower dash out on Duggy's advice (and after the pic he supplied of where his comes out)

So tools at the ready I took off the panel to reveal the fusebox:



Then as per Waks Guide ( http://www.wak-tt.com/mods/boostgauge/boostgauge.htm - scroll down) I then took out the 3 T25 screws in the dash (I had 3 read somewhere that someone had 2?) and then all of the T25 screws at the fuse box:



So all screws out and carefully placed so I dont lose any I then went ahead and pulled the dash out of the 3 clips at the top of the lower dash, I had 2 on the left hand side of the wheel and 1 to the right, dont pull too hard or you might break something to careful does it! This then allowed me to pull the dash down (I didnt want to remove it completely)

So now I can get my hands behind, I then fed through a piece of the garden wire so that I could get it down at the gap where the bonnet release is, I then wrapped it round the cable (small end that goes into the back of the gauge) so that I could then pull this up (GENTLY THOUGH) and out through the hole where the vent was:



I left enough wire down at the bottom so that I can unplug the gauge if I need the diagnostics port, the rest was then fed back into the dash. Then put everything back how it was!!!!!



The final piece is to connect your gauge and feed the wire back into the vent:



As I pushed the vent in she just didnt feel secure enough so I took some of the foam and placed it on various edges around the back of the casing, gently pushed this back in and she is now snug as a bug in a rug!



Final part is to plug her in to the diagnostics and then I turned the car on to make sure everything in the dash was still working

And there we have it A securely fitted liquid gauge as told by a girl! And not a single broken nail woohoo!

Big thanks to Waks site for what I could understand and showing me where the screws were that I needed to get out

heres the links again - http://www.wak-tt.com/mods/boostgauge/boostgauge.htm

Big thanks to Jamman for listening to me F and Blind earlier on in the day and for offering advice which I then forgot and then kept bugging him about

Big thanks to Nem for his advice (although I didnt go for it, had the gap near the bonnet release not have been big enough I would have)

And finally a big thanks for Duggy for geeing me on and going out to his own car to take a pic of where his cable came out and then offering even more advice with the lower dash

I;m a very happy girly right now and well and truly got my thumb out my arse to get my car sorted for the rest of this years shows

If you think this is a crap guide I dont care, I struggled to understand the technical garble which is why I've created an idiots guide for car idiots like me who get a blank expression when technical terms are used.

ENJOY!

J
xx