Upgraded my dead Zed digital clock with a generic 12v eBay purchase today, seems a cheap fix for anybody interested...

About 6 quid off eBay from a UK seller, 3 or 4 quid if you want to wait for a Slow boat from China... Removed it from its housing and stuck it into the (newly emptied) OEM clock housing to then screw back on to the console fascia. It adjusts by means of a push button on a short pair of cables that would not take much work to fit to the OEM reset button on the original housing. Mine is red, which suits me fine, but some sellers do it in blue as well which is probably nearer the factory colour. Probably not for the purists, but it floats my boat and the digits are actually a touch bigger for the optically-challenged amongst us!

 

 

 

 

Thats cool, all the OEM clocks I've seen have been broken lol.

Top job Steve looks really good.

 

Jeff

I like that, alot :thumbup:

Nice work, blends in perfectly with your gauges [emoji106]

Nice mod... My clock works but with the brightness of the LED cluster and radio display. I may try your quick fix because of the crispness vs & brightness of my 21yr old LED clock.

 

What's the link of the clock you used?

Also where did you get your gauges from? Perfect fit

Great find....:thumbup:

link for the clock on eBay is http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=201423489564

There are loads of others very similar, but this one is a uk seller, and to be fair to him, came in post next day (small enough to fit through letter box so no need for somebody waiting in for parcel)

The gauges are a bit of a stop gap. I cut away my original fascia and fitted a cheap Chinese type double din GPS stereo when I first got it. Never really happy with it tbh, and went back 'old school' with the single DIN Alpine unit a few weeks back. Feeds a sub in the boot and some JBL's in the old rear speaker mounts, via 2x amps; decent sound out of it and miles better than the Chinese GPS unit I put in. I misplaced the old cubby and bought the gauge unit as a means of filling in the gap. Would have preferred them to be black, but was only £6.99 plus post, so couldn't really grumble.....

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=252494248932

link for the clock on eBay is http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=201423489564

There are loads of others very similar, but this one is a uk seller, and to be fair to him, came in post next day (small enough to fit through letter box so no need for somebody waiting in for parcel)

Can you change the time? It doesn't look like there are any buttons on it and if you order the hong kong oneit may be in the wrong time zone?

Can you change the time? It doesn't look like there are any buttons on it and if you order the hong kong oneit may be in the wrong time zone?

 

Yeah, the 2 yellow wires u can probably see on one of the pics are attached to a push button switch. You keep it pressed until 'hour' flashes, then press again to scroll through the numbers; same again for minutes and seconds. It also has date, month and year.. At the moment the button is just loose behind the clock, but by intention at some stage is to secure it behind the 'reset' button of the factory housing (probably requiring araldite or a bit of filler etc)

link for the clock on eBay is http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=201423489564

There are loads of others very similar, but this one is a uk seller, and to be fair to him, came in post next day (small enough to fit through letter box so no need for somebody waiting in for parcel)

 

Nice one Steve....:cool:

 

.....But check out the seller's e-mail address.....:rofl:

Nice one Steve....:cool:

 

.....But check out the seller's e-mail address.....:rofl:

 

Haha, I don't think he thought that through properly!

That is really impressive top fix there chap :yes: