The other day I managed to spill some drink in my heated/cooled seat buttons. I cleaned it up as best I could and sprayed some contact cleaner in just in case, but the next morning I had some weird stuff going on - like one red and one blue light permanently lit on the passenger side and both passenger and driver's side buttons unresponsive. I took the button panel out and took it apart and there was quite a bit of liquid in there so I dried it and cleaned it all up again with contact cleaner. That gave me a functional driver's side, no lights lit on passenger side, but unfortunately no activity on passenger side either.
Obviously this meant the button panel had to be replaced, but a brand new one for a MK4 Mondeo was a ridiculous £130 and I couldn't seem to find any used ones at the time. I managed to get hold of a MK3 Mondeo one for £28 which is exactly the same assembly but has green backlit LEDs whereas everything in the MK4 is red, which gave me this:
Unfortunately while it's a minor thing, there was no way I could put up with those being the only green backlit LEDs in the car, so I cracked both button panels open and took the soldering iron to them to swap the LEDs around. I now have this:
Half an hour's effort and £102 saving. I'll take that.
Luckily my e-manage ultimate can be disconnected so I go back to standard fuelling on stock ECU. But still wont pass as it's a 1999 import even tho the engine is from 1989 when engines were small capacity and made insane power.
