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Climatronic panel MK7>Mk5

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#1 ·
I had a crazy idea to fit a Mk7 climatronic panel into my R32. I had to cut and paste the later surround into the earlier surround. Anyway, this is the result so far. :)
 
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I bought the panel from bold-sport.com as a kit with the Mk6 surround. I also bought a air quality sensor to get the auto switching working. All the buttons work and is no harder to set up than a Mk6 unit. It just needs a surround to be custom made.
 
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I used the surround supplied to fit it to a mk6 and trimmed it down to the stepup roughing it down with a bench grinder then using a dremel with a sanding barrel until it looked nice. The surround from the mk6 in a mk5 has a smaller hole than the mk5 standard surround. I marked out where I needed to trim and started with drilling small holes to remove the majority of excess material. Then I used the dremel to get it right. To hold the two together, I used some waste plastic and melted some bridges to join the two together. Good thing is that I didn't need to paint it doing it this way and the join is on an edge.
 
#11 ·
Top job!