The "Today I did something to my car" thread

L-M · 23-06-2011 12:28pm #1

I did this

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Mr Magners · 23-06-2011 12:29pm

What is that.

Did you draw the picture?

L-M · 23-06-2011 12:30pm

It's my roof cloth that's being upgraded to the higher spec "Black" :P

Tallon · 23-06-2011 12:37pm

CiniO · 23-06-2011 12:51pm

I got o set of windscreen wipers for a tenner yesterday.
I don't know if it counts ;P

sentient_6 · 23-06-2011 1:00pm

Attacked my leather seats with Autoglym leather cleaner & care balm....& now kinda regreting it as it smells like sh*t. I love their interior shampoo but i think ill go back to simoniz wipes for the seats.

_Kaiser_ · 23-06-2011 1:01pm

Tallon wrote: »

I hope you're not driving a diesel!! :eek:

L-M · 23-06-2011 1:02pm

sentient_6 wrote: »

Attacked my leather seats with Autoglym leather cleaner & care balm....& now kinda regreting it as it smells like sh*t. I love their interior shampoo but i think ill go back to simoniz wipes for the seats.

Try gliptone, lots of lads recommend it. I haven't seen it forsale anywhere local though!

johnos1984 · 23-06-2011 1:24pm

I took my Marina fishing this morning. I doubt the sea air will help it but it needed a run out

Hal1 · 23-06-2011 1:28pm

Flock the roof lining Limerick Man. It'll be awesome.

L-M · 23-06-2011 1:31pm

Yeah I was gonna get it done but for certain reasons I'm not :P

I Was VB · 23-06-2011 1:37pm

johnos1984 wrote: »

I took my Marina fishing this morning. I doubt the sea air will help it but it needed a run out

So ya had your Marina down by the Marina.........

:pac:

CrowdedHouse · 23-06-2011 2:29pm

Limerick man wrote: »

Try gliptone, lots of lads recommend it. I haven't seen it forsale anywhere local though!

It's very good but smells like sh**e too

R.O.R · 23-06-2011 2:39pm

Limerick man wrote: »

It's my roof cloth that's being upgraded to the higher spec "Black" :P

Is that Black Felt by any chance?

vectra · 23-06-2011 2:46pm

Put a SET OF -40MM Springs on the civic

L-M · 23-06-2011 2:49pm

R.O.R wrote: »

Is that Black Felt by any chance?

I'm using Plasticoat if that's what you're asking? it's drying in nice and soft!

Zubeneschamali · 23-06-2011 3:21pm

Well, yesterday.

On the way home, the car suddenly announced "Dipped Headlight Bulb Fault", so when I got home, I pulled out the manual and the spare bulb from the glove compartment.

Then I read the manual. Then it was off to the shed for the toolbox.

I had to take out a bolt (spanner plus mole wrench, a socket wrench would have been better) and a screw (large flathead screwdriver or a torx one for this), unclip the electrical connector, lift out the whole light unit, remove a rubber cover, remove the bulb holder and then clip the H7 bulb out and replace everything.

In theory, if you had reall small hands and ESP you could do it without taking out the unit, I think, but that's how the manual said to do it.

Not a job I'd fancy trying at the side of the road, which makes carrying a spare bulb a bit pointless.

Ken. · 23-06-2011 4:20pm

R.O.R wrote: »

Is that Black Felt by any chance?

No, it's really really really really dark blue:D

MetzgerMeister · 23-06-2011 4:36pm

sentient_6 wrote: »

Attacked my leather seats with Autoglym leather cleaner & care balm....& now kinda regreting it as it smells like sh*t. I love their interior shampoo but i think ill go back to simoniz wipes for the seats.

I used those a few weeks ago too. Didn't mind the smell, I thought it was a kind of "leather" smell but I could be wrong!

The only problem I could have had is that it takes 48 hours for the balm to cure and give the leather full protection. Luckily I went on holidays the day after I did it.

vectra · 23-06-2011 4:53pm

sentient_6 wrote: »

Attacked my leather seats with Autoglym leather cleaner & care balm....& now kinda regreting it as it smells like sh*t. I love their interior shampoo but i think ill go back to simoniz wipes for the seats.

This is what I use.

1) MF Cloth, Dish of Diluted APC & Warm water. Wipe the seats down and dry with another M cloth.

2) Spray and spread this on them Chemical Guys Liquid Leather.

I love the morning after when I open the door and the smell of leather hits the nostrels..

-Corkie- · 23-06-2011 5:52pm

I drove it to work and then I drove it home.

johnos1984 · 23-06-2011 5:53pm

-Corkie- wrote: »

I drove it to work and then I drove it home.

I drove mine into a Mazda dealer and promptly fell in love with a Mazda3 HDI SPORT.

Should I go stand in the corner?

sentient_6 · 23-06-2011 6:02pm

Well im after going at it again there before seeing ye'r posts, i had read some stuff online elsehere this afternoon. Started with a j cloth & warm water, then using the AG leather cleaner i vigorously scrubbed with a nailbrush & used the microfibres to finish off. Should've taken pics when i was half way through the seat cos the amount of muck the nailbrush got off was unreal. Half nice clean beige, half tan!

Have to say the microfibres on their own this morning didnt do much.

Dumped on the care balm to feck after reading about keeping the leather moisturised. It will do until i get something else like the liquid leather.

23-06-2011 6:06pm

johnos1984 wrote: »

I drove mine into a Mazda dealer and promptly fell in love with a Mazda3 HDI SPORT.

Should I go stand in the corner?

Absolutely not! Lovely car and great to drive. I also want!

On topic. Had my usual weekly check around and found one CV joint starting to leak...I will literally have replaced everything on this car before too long

ottostreet · 23-06-2011 6:28pm

Claying the other side of my car. nearly all done now.

For Forks Sake · 23-06-2011 6:37pm

Zubeneschamali wrote: »

Well, yesterday.

On the way home, the car suddenly announced "Dipped Headlight Bulb Fault", so when I got home, I pulled out the manual and the spare bulb from the glove compartment.

Then I read the manual. Then it was off to the shed for the toolbox.

I had to take out a bolt (spanner plus mole wrench, a socket wrench would have been better) and a screw (large flathead screwdriver or a torx one for this), unclip the electrical connector, lift out the whole light unit, remove a rubber cover, remove the bulb holder and then clip the H7 bulb out and replace everything.

In theory, if you had reall small hands and ESP you could do it without taking out the unit, I think, but that's how the manual said to do it.

Not a job I'd fancy trying at the side of the road, which makes carrying a spare bulb a bit pointless.

Saab by any chance? That sounds very familiar :mad:

Gary ITR · 23-06-2011 8:29pm

R.O.R wrote: »

Is that Black Felt by any chance?

I think I'm the only one that got that

Seperate · 23-06-2011 8:34pm

Limerick man wrote: »

Try gliptone, lots of lads recommend it. I haven't seen it forsale anywhere local though!

http://www.detailer.ie/store/index.php/interior-cleaning-dressing.html

or if you want both & a brush.. http://www.detailer.ie/store/index.php/detailing-kits/gliptone-leather-care-kit.html

Owen · 23-06-2011 8:46pm

I changed my dashboard bulbs to blue, fitted a full set of Nightbreaker bulbs outside, and am in the middle of making a double-din fascia cause one was never made for the car, and it's not supposed to have a DD head unit. Also did a small bit of work on the fibreglass sub enclosure I'm very slowly building.

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L-M · 23-06-2011 9:04pm

Is that in the Mg O.o

vectra · 23-06-2011 9:05pm

PaintDoctor wrote: »

I changed my dashboard bulbs to blue, fitted a full set of Nightbreaker bulbs outside, and am in the middle of making a double-din fascia cause one was never made for the car, and it's not supposed to have a DD head unit. Also did a small bit of work on the fibreglass sub enclosure I'm very slowly building.

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Like the looks of the blue display.. Looking at getting this for the civic...Where did you get the bulbs? Are you doing the rest of the dash light to match?? IE.
Heater controls etc.

Can Would it be possible for you to do a step by step of the enclosure please? I am very interested in doing this i my next car. One in each back corner of the boot angled upwards and forwards running off a fairly decent amp.

Cheers

johnos1984 · 23-06-2011 9:05pm

Limerick man wrote: »

Is that in the Mg O.o

SMART I reckon

Owen · 23-06-2011 9:11pm

johnos1984 wrote: »

SMART I reckon

Yup, bang on!

I got the bulbs in a local motor factors, but they're a fscking nightmare - made somewhere in the far east, and you've to bend the pins in the bulb to make them actually contact the PCB in the dash. Won't be doing the rest of the LEDs, as there are none! My last MINI I'd everything done, every switch, every backlight too.

Will try to take more photos of the enclosure as I get it done. It's just taking an age, and everything else seems to take my time

Here's what I did to it about 3 weeks ago.

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johnos1984 · 23-06-2011 9:12pm

That looks like a rucksack

Vertakill · 23-06-2011 10:04pm

Zubeneschamali wrote: »

In theory, if you had reall small hands and ESP you could do it without taking out the unit, I think, but that's how the manual said to do it.

Haha brilliant.

Sounds like a nightmare.

PaintDoctor wrote: »

Here's what I did to it about 3 weeks ago.

How the hell did you make that?!

Cill Dara Abu · 23-06-2011 10:09pm

PaintDoctor wrote: »

Sorry but that looks awful

23-06-2011 10:14pm

Cill Dara Abu wrote: »

Sorry but that looks awful

Savage workmanship though, absolutely top drawer looking to be fair.

ShadowHearth · 23-06-2011 10:14pm

lucyfur09 wrote: »

No, it's really really really really dark blue:D

yup, he needs priest socks allright

23-06-2011 10:16pm

PaintDoctor wrote: »

...............

..............

Just for comparison's sake

RedorDead · 23-06-2011 10:18pm

RoverJames wrote: »

Just for comparison's sake

Why not just buy a slightly bigger car?

23-06-2011 10:20pm

RedorDead wrote: »

Why not just buy a slightly bigger car?

Wait a sec there and I'll PM the PaintDoctor chap and report back ...................

............ not :pac:

Owen · 23-06-2011 10:21pm

Vertakill wrote: »

How the hell did you make that?!

Wish I could take the credit, it's a kit which is popular with companies in Germany who do contracting - electrical/pc/maintenance work in the bigger cities. Very hard to get outside Germany, so some lovely discussions were held with ze fatherland to get one shipped. Took forever to get here, and then when it arrived, the fibreglass was in such bad shape it took forever to get smooth too.

Cill Dara Abu wrote: »

Sorry but that looks awful

To each their own. Gets nothing but positive reviews in the flesh, and if I listened to what everyone liked, I'd end up going off my game inside some Toyota washing machine. You've got to trust me that in photos, it's completely naff - even I thought so when ordering it - but it's when you see it in real life you start gigging like a child saying gizzago.

RoverJames wrote: »

Savage workmanship though, absolutely top drawer looking to be fair.

Cheers RJ! Next up is to build some racking and pull out drawers to hold all the kit, it's just loose inside. I'll be doing that at the end of next week hopefully

Oh, and tomorrow I have some fancy cnc machined paddles for the gearshift on the steering wheel coming too replace the crappy plastic ones which're there.

homer90 · 23-06-2011 10:24pm

:pac:

Owen · 23-06-2011 10:24pm

RedorDead wrote: »

Why not just buy a slightly bigger car?

I had a slightly bigger car, which was completely wasted. This is the perfect size for me and my tools, and occassionally the dog. It's got heated leather bucket seats, aircon, satnav, bluetooth, panoramic glass roof, paddle shift gearbox, 120bhp, weighs as much as a shoe, is RWD, and goes like stink. Cost peanuts to tax, insure and run and is still grand on a long journey - brought it home from the UK and it was great craic.

Plus, it's also my business car, so it attracts attention and is great for advertising. It's like being in a Go-Kart every day, and I love it. And the noise out of the engine's something else

There's all that, and I hate normal cars. Last toy was a JCW works. Now I've this, god only knows what's next.

mysillyusername · 23-06-2011 10:27pm

The odometer tipped over 100000 miles...

mondeo · 23-06-2011 10:30pm

Today I put my car up for sale because I'm f~~~in sick of it

vectra · 23-06-2011 11:18pm

PaintDoctor wrote: »

There's all that, and I hate normal cars. Last toy was a JCW works. Now I've this, god only knows what's next.

Octavia :pac:

GTE · 23-06-2011 11:44pm

A bit of a greasy job but to get rid of a squeak in the wiper mechanism I took it out, took it apart and rebuilt it today.

Found out that a rubber o ring had perished letting in some water into parts of the mechanism and caused some damage.

Nice evening in the sun!

EPM · 23-06-2011 11:49pm

vectra wrote: »

Octavia :pac:

Or not!

PD's smart is one of the coolest cars I've seen in a long time tbh. Nice to see it post op too:p;)

Thatnastyboy · 24-06-2011 12:23am

PaintDoctor wrote: »

Yup, bang on!

You should extend it back further, put a sh!t load of lead in the very back and put on a wheelie bar

Gary ITR · 24-06-2011 3:29pm

Feck yis, reading this thread I wanted to do something. Pics to follow in a bit

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