Stilo How to "Abarth" the interior of your Stilo!

Right so dash/ dash frame is out along with that stinking old analog heater matrix. Now it's time to fit the digital one in its place! Fitment is the exact same as removal except without the dash frame attatched to it. Firstly make sure the two metal pipes at the back of the matrix line up with the grommets in the bulkhead and then push the matrix in and line it up! Don't worry about fitting it to the dash frame form the inside - once it's all back in place it's more than secure in the frame.

Now you will see in the passenger footwell a white wiring plug coming from the bulkhead near the brake servo, this connects to the white plug on the heater matrix a shown:



The blue circled wiring plug is for the heat sensor mentioned earlier in the guide.

Now it's time to fit the dash frame back in over the top! Same procedure as before, I started with the two bolts at either side and then bolted up the supports either side of the heater matrix. It's a good idea now as well to connect in the heat sensor and feed it up to the top of the dash frame before you lose it when the dash goes back on top!

So now the dash frame is back in, time to get the Selespeed wiring loom out! Start from the passenger side as it's a bit less chaotic there. Feed the yellow passenger airbag plug and the glove box light down the little hole where the upper glovebox would be. It's a good idea to use the hose where the black wiring loom clips go as a guide, if your Selespeed loom still has them on it then these will clip in exactly where your old wiring loom went! If you've clipped everything in the right place and fed the loom to the right locations then this is how it should look:



I've already connected up the stalks, dash clocks, and steering wheel, just to guage how it all connects up. But make sure the dash loom is clipped in place. Next thing to do is connect everything back onto the interior fusebox and refit it to the dash frame. Now you can also reconnect the radio antenna at the drivers side and the two white plugs that are there also - there are white slide-on clips on the dash frame for them to sit on.

You will see you have these two extra wiring connections in this area also:



The grey one is for the sat nav's GPS reciever and the green one is for the sat nav microphone - for using it's phone function :slayer: We can ignore these for the moment. Once the fusebox and connections for it are back in we can fit the dashboard over the top! Dashboard fitting is the reverse of before - slide it in so the windscreen part clips in then drop it into place at the front and line it up! Then just bolt in the rubber padded allen bolts for it and job done

Right so now all the hard stuff is out the way - we've had the full dash out and put the digital heater matrix and Selespeed dash loom inplace of the old one and refitted the dash frame and dashboard. Now we are on the home stretch! Have another cuppa and go to the next page to finish of this bad ass conversion! :slayer: