When I originally bought the car there were a number of rather unsightly holes in the “transmission tunnel” & elsewhere. The elsewheres we’re bunged up with some rather neat trim buttons but the craters in the tunnel were questionable. One pair took a 3.5mm socket for my iPod another a switch to change from the boot mounted C/D to the iPod.
The galactic hole couldn’t be ignored.
At that time the Land Rover ignition switch was playing up & I fitted a start button which I liked & I had another push to make switch that would drop into the black hole.
And so I’ve been push buttoning since.
In recent years all my cars & those I have access to (excluding those classics I am privileged to drive) have push starters & there all pretty well in the same place; where the wing mirror joystick is in the MG. The other day having tried to start the thing three times by adjusting the wing mirrors I relocated the start switch & I’m delighted to say I haven’t missed the switch in its previous home.
As an aside; I had a spare joystick which I stripped to mount the push button, they are a brilliant bit of design but if yours fails don’t try & repair it , by the time you’ve got into the full works it’s broken.
The evicted joystick now comes out, blinking into the light,
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from under the dash on an umbilical cable.
The second picture is the latest iteration of my heater knobs, there’s a blue led mounted in the knob shaft as well as a second led & centre off dpdt switch
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