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Old Jun 7, 2006 | 01:47 AM
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I had a good idea. . . :(


Take a Junkyard pod from a '92 SSE supercharged and use it in my 95 SLE as a neon switch to look factory.. The buttons would work, but the covers that have text on them, are just that.. they snap onto a button assembly..



Obvious which is which.. the left is the cover for the dummy button on the lower two (which i believe is perform/normal ride) on the other ones.. they just snap onto here




My idea.. use that junkyard pod for neons, wire the neons up to that switch for perform/normal shift.. use my covers since I have the two top ones as nothing..



MY PROBLEM***

LOOK AT THE WIRING..

1. Junkyard switchpod:



2. My car..



I know it will work .. by looking at this. (the cover idea over the working buttons if i can make it work)



My stepdad said he could help me take a look at it (works on high-output copy machines .. digital/colorizing ones.. for a living. he does small soldering/wiring/alot of wiring crap for a living.. he knows alot about the stuff.). but I also wanted some insight from members here. What you think about this, and what could I do to make it work?

PS, the backlighting in the buttons is NOT going to be used as it'* going to look like regular fake buttons, but they're really going to work with my neons that I want to install.
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Old Jun 7, 2006 | 07:37 AM
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It'* been done. In fact, the pinout differences between the two pod types is posted here somewhere.

You'll need the buttons to control a relay for the neons.
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Old Jun 7, 2006 | 07:39 AM
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On the connection differences...if you get a year closer to yours..you'll have the right connector for your car.
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Eric you need a 94+ switch pod....or just rewire to use the existing as Bill has said
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Old Jun 7, 2006 | 01:04 PM
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Originally Posted by 1993 SLE
Eric you need a 94+ switch pod....or just rewire to use the existing as Bill has said
Well..

Have one?
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Unfortunately all are only TC button pods. But yeah..i've got some...
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Originally Posted by BillBoost37
Unfortunately all are only TC button pods. But yeah..i've got some...
Any boneyards around you with 94+ SLE/SSE (i)'* ?
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None of my local yards have anything fresh worth picking over. Soon enough. Meanwhile if Saturday isn't a monsoon...Toasty and I (maybe others) will be hitting up some yards by him.
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Originally Posted by BillBoost37
None of my local yards have anything fresh worth picking over. Soon enough. Meanwhile if Saturday isn't a monsoon...Toasty and I (maybe others) will be hitting up some yards by him.
keep me in mind.. (PS i need it with the perform/normal shift.. not the ride / suspension one.)

thanks so much if you could
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Originally Posted by erics95se
(PS i need it with the perform/normal shift.. not the ride / suspension one.)
Yeah...yeah..I know...lol
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