Section : Dashboard and Instruments

GT6 Dash

Posted By : Ian Marvell, 16-Oct-2005, 08:10pm

• gt6 Dash

  Posted By : Andy Cook, 16-Oct-2005, 11:07pm

  The wooden piece of the dash itself is essentially the same. The only difference is to the heater control insert which is the other way round on a MKII compared to a MKIII. On a MKII Hot is on the right whereas on the MKIII it and on Spitfire MKIV and 1500's Hot is on the left as the heater valve works the oposite way round.
  
  The reason I know this is that my MKIII has a MKII heater valve fitted (it was like this when I bought it) and I searched around autojumbles for ages to find a MKII heater control insert. I only found this out by chance when I noticed a freinds MKII had a different dash insert, up until then I couldn't understand how my car could be hot when the heater was set to cold and vice versa!!!!!

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    Posted By : Van Hamlin, 16-Oct-2005, 11:27pm

    The MkII has a dash mounted ignition/starter switch and the MkIII has a column mounted one. So I would expect the dashes to be different, unless the MkIII just has a blanked over hole.
    Van
    

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      Posted By : Andy Cook, 17-Oct-2005, 00:24am

      Van,
      
      I forgot about that, you are right, the MKII had the ignition switch next to the chocke cable so it did have an extra hole in the wood compared to the MKIII.

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        Posted By : Stephen Oertwig, 20-Oct-2005, 03:53pm

        Something must be wrong with my heater control. It just says "hot" and "hotter."