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Old 06-12-2021, 04:52 PM
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The Q7 illuminated console has a thin ridge outlining the interior edge of plastic and the original A4 A5 is just flat and piano black. As seen in the photos below. Red arrow is Q7 light diffuser ridge. Grey console is our non illuminated unit.


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Originally Posted by Alpina540i
The Q7 illuminated console has a thin ridge outlining the interior edge of plastic and the original A4 A5 is just flat and piano black. As seen in the photos below. Red arrow is Q7 light diffuser ridge. Grey console is our non illuminated unit.

Thank you so much for all this help!
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Just a heads up the Q7 spot lights have a larger dia than the originals in our cars. See the dia difference in the photo.

I sanded the holes to fit the new larger dia. lights.

Small dia original size on left. The larger hole with q7 light with the extra light ring seen on the right.

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Originally Posted by Alpina540i
So I noticed the Q7 has an illuminated overhead console and I wanted to try to retrofit it to my car. They also have cool little illuminated accent rings around the interior spot lights. So I ordered a Q7 console and proceeded to tear it a part!

It has a smoked clear plastic center where ours are piano black. The Q7 console circuit board has 8 more Leds soldered to it to illuminate this plastic diffuser.

It seems to work great now that I sorted the coding issue I had. The coding issue caused the same issue with the original console it wasn't related to the Q7 electronics.

Enjoy the pics!

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Top left look like Wera screwdrivers. They are no joke. I have a ratcheting one. I really want a set of the Wera joker wrenches.
The right ones are the craftsman diamond tipped set, they are great as well. I definitely have my fair share of tools but I do have toolbox envy right now. Nice setup.
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Lol... Thanks... You guys are hard core... Yes Wera, Gedore and the wear out and throw away diamond craftsman drivers.....

Here I thought this thread was on a dome light....
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Now that's a cool mod @Alpina540i !

But but.. the motorized lifting speakers! Can you give us more details? Those are looking doope!
How is the sound quality? How well those works with B&O? (considering those are 3D spekears)
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I don't have the B&O system. I installed a custom setup with focal 3 ways in the front and 2 ways in the rear.

I installed the focal tweeters in the pop up tweeters.

They sound very nice.

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The Q7 dome light turns out its a straight swap, unplug the old one, in with the new one, then clear up a tons of codes from the relevant modules, and it should be good to go. Things that you will get from this mod is the extra ambient light from the 2 map lights surround, extra dome light in the clear part, and the 'Rear' only dome light mode works too.
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@Alpina540i: In your picture is the round thing touching the red arrow a microphone, there are two of them and they have a soft cover? Thanks.
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@Alpina540i: In your picture is the round thing touching the red arrow a microphone, there are two of them and they have a soft cover? Thanks.
No they are ultrasonic sensors for detecting motion in the cabin when the alarm is on.

Three microphones are mounted behind the perferated grill in the overhead console.
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