RS Console with working starter button *Update 11-15
Well i purchased this console around 7 months ago. It was sitting in my living room taunting me with its good looks saying "install me"!. I kept on saying i don't have time for you right now, your a lot of work and i dont want to rush into things. So i waited and waited. Something was missing, the starter button! So i searched and searched but not one could be found, until i met up with fellow focus fanatic SVTbrit. Nicest guy i have ever spoken with (although we have never met in person nor spoke, he seems to be a very genuine and nice person). He offered to track the button down, you see he had a friend in Europe who happend to be coming out to visit him soon. To save me on VAT and shipping costs he fronted the money for me (keep in mind he had never met me) and had his friend order and pick up the button from Ford and bring it over to the states and THEN mailed it to me! Amazing! I can't thank him enough...thanks Shane!
After i got the button then came the daunting task of trying to make this bad boy fit, the mounting points on the conosle are different so things would have to be fabricated to make it work. Also i had no idea how to put the button in (Since of course when you buy a button, that is all you get...). I searched around and collected information from tons of sites and took the best of all of them and used them to my best ability. Still came the issue of time, i had none and have not had time in a long long while...till now! Overall the install went without a hitch, both the console and the button install took around 2 hrs. I still have a couple more things; the shift boot needs to be sewn up and tightened around the shifter, need to fill the other hole (where the build number normally goes) with something that looks just like the RS build number. If anyone has any good ideas i would love to hear them. I plan on writting up how to install the starter button as well as an RS conosle for anyone who may be interested. Well at long last...here it is! The mostly completed installation!
PS I have no idea why my seats look so dirty...
***Update! 11-15-05***
Thanks to a dear dear friend i was able to get the original build # (aka "the bolt") and it is blank so i can put my SVT build # right on it! Here are two pictures of the actual "bolt".
Well i purchased this console around 7 months ago. It was sitting in my living room taunting me with its good looks saying "install me"!. I kept on saying i don't have time for you right now, your a lot of work and i dont want to rush into things. So i waited and waited. Something was missing, the starter button! So i searched and searched but not one could be found, until i met up with fellow focus fanatic SVTbrit. Nicest guy i have ever spoken with (although we have never met in person nor spoke, he seems to be a very genuine and nice person). He offered to track the button down, you see he had a friend in Europe who happend to be coming out to visit him soon. To save me on VAT and shipping costs he fronted the money for me (keep in mind he had never met me) and had his friend order and pick up the button from Ford and bring it over to the states and THEN mailed it to me! Amazing! I can't thank him enough...thanks Shane!
After i got the button then came the daunting task of trying to make this bad boy fit, the mounting points on the conosle are different so things would have to be fabricated to make it work. Also i had no idea how to put the button in (Since of course when you buy a button, that is all you get...). I searched around and collected information from tons of sites and took the best of all of them and used them to my best ability. Still came the issue of time, i had none and have not had time in a long long while...till now! Overall the install went without a hitch, both the console and the button install took around 2 hrs. I still have a couple more things; the shift boot needs to be sewn up and tightened around the shifter, need to fill the other hole (where the build number normally goes) with something that looks just like the RS build number. If anyone has any good ideas i would love to hear them. I plan on writting up how to install the starter button as well as an RS conosle for anyone who may be interested. Well at long last...here it is! The mostly completed installation!
PS I have no idea why my seats look so dirty...
***Update! 11-15-05***
Thanks to a dear dear friend i was able to get the original build # (aka "the bolt") and it is blank so i can put my SVT build # right on it! Here are two pictures of the actual "bolt".