New from Mills Extreme Vehicles Ltd is an electronic switch and control panel designed to help the kit car builder. MEV, and no doubt many other kit car manufacturers, often hear of customers concerns over their ability to wire a car. This has led MEV to develop an electronic solution.

Conventional relays and bases, tell-tale lamps, flasher units and complex hazard warning switches are out of the window. In comes a state of the art printed circuit board with all the complicated connections that lead to breakdowns or even nervous breakdowns, gone for good. There is a high risk of failure on the part of the kit car builder when it comes to the black art of auto electrics coupled with the limited choice of often dated looking switches and tell-tale lamps. These areas have now been addressed with the introduction of the E-DASH. Frustrations associated with accidentally inserting a pin into the wrong hole on a relay base are now a thing of the past, what’s more is the ease with which the MEV E-DASH unit is installed, one letter box hole and hey presto the whole control panel, complete with IVA compliant warning symbols and lamps is ready to go. Tactile switches control all the functions with a gentle touch, whilst the smart system re-sets itself on ignition so that you can’t leave the lights on by mistake. Hazard warning switch wiring is always a complex issue, but with the E-DASH all you need to do is push crimp terminals on the board for each corner of the car. After market steering wheels can also cause horn button problems, and so a horn push is built in together with an LED ladder fuel gauge.

The system is engineered to split various loads through appropriately sized fuses for both ignition on and ignition off circuits. So that’s your car wiring sorted, one hole to cut and a hand full of crimps and potential wiring nightmares are a thing of the past. Cost wise, its included in the lights/loom price and is guaranteed to make life easier for you when building your car.