Wocha bin doin on your MG this week then?

I did see people had the same issue, If you spray it on and leave it , it'll go shiny and a bit greasy, but if you buff it of within a few minutes after applying it goes matt and dry ,  Mine certainly has no tack to it

I wanted to give the centre console a bit of a face lift  and I stumbled across a topic by Airportable called "Knobs" 
Anyway the knobs and rings arrived and today was the day for a nice, easy upgrade...err no!
It's never going to end well when you cut corners and when rebuilding I didn't change the heater controls ...so when I tried to remove the 1st knob it snapped the spindle   interesting fact, the temp control spindle is plastic   
No problem, I have a spare 🙂 
It would have been a bit easier if I wasn't a ham fisted oaf that broke the circuit board  
4 hours and much swearing later I had everything back together and I'm pleased with the result. 
 

Yeah dealing with plastic parts can offer challenges!

Hey it looks a bit like mine now, how good is that! I’m glad you were inspired, my panel has moved on a bit since, each knob is back lit: blue for speed, blue for temperature when cold, changing to red when up to temperature & finally yellow for air distribution.
The speed is continually variable & has a high speed demist/boost setting. There’s a switch built into the knob which selects continuously variable, off & boost.
It was great fun to build, I’ll add some pictures if anyone is interested.
M

I wish that I had the knowledge to be able to do something like that but my skill set is is very limited. I'm really just a plug and play when it comes to electrical work. 

The heater fan knob on mine gave up the ghost yesterday. Ive ordered a 2nd hand Mike Satur set on Ebay before i saw this post

Stripping the suspention from the F , waiting till the FCC kit from Mike Satur will fall on my doorstep

Fitted a pair of Alpine tweeters to my TF.
Thanks to @notanumber for pointing out the wiring would be there.
Used a step cutter on the door card for a neat fit and they work a treat.

Low coolant alarm from Mr.Cotsell arrived today so that's the next job.
 

One of the plastic heater control knobs failed in the week so I picked up a second hand set of Mike Satur aluminium ones on Ebay. They are very solid but I have to say I prefer the less cluttered look of the originals

Notanumber wrote:

One of the plastic heater control knobs failed in the week so I picked up a second hand set of Mike Satur aluminium ones on Ebay. They are very solid but I have to say I prefer the less cluttered look of the originals


Can I ask why they fail?  My heater knob turns to the hot position and everything is hot but if I try to turn it down it jams half way. If I leave it to cool it goes all the way back to off again. Is this why they break because I daren't actually force it back to off.
 

I know what you mean about a tight spot in the middle of the temperature control. Mine has it to a much lesser extent and i noticed it on my previous TF.  If yours is particularly bad there then it would probably be worth an hour or two to strip down, clean and lubricate the heater flaps and linkages the control joins to. 

On mine, it was the knob for the fan which had broken and prompted the change. Unlike the others this just consists of a switch, without mechanical linkages, though it does still require quite a positive turn to click between speed positions.

The knob for the direction control fell apart when I removed it so the only intact original survivor was the one for the temperature control.

TA22GT wrote:

Notanumber wrote:

One of the plastic heater control knobs failed in the week so I picked up a second hand set of Mike Satur aluminium ones on Ebay. They are very solid but I have to say I prefer the less cluttered look of the originals


TA22GT wrote:- Can I ask why they fail?  My heater knob turns to the hot position and everything is hot but if I try to turn it down it jams half way. If I leave it to cool it goes all the way back to off again. Is this why they break because I daren't actually force it back to off.

David Aiketgate wrote:- The temperature control knob is attached to a bowden cable that operates a valve in the coolant flow pipework. It is often the valve tbat becomes stiff. Disconnecting tbe cable and operating the valve manually may free it off. (Or it may be on its way to fail.)
Incidentally, you can adjust the range of the temperature knob by moving where the cable is attached by the clip to tbe valve.( Beware tbe clip can fly off and disappear.@Ask me how I know...)