The "Today I did something to my car" thread

TestTransmission · 26-04-2012 8:47pm

colm_mcm wrote: »

That leather cleaner smells lovely. Must do mine again

(just to clarify I can't smell the picture)

Nowhere near as nice as Gliptone imo.

colm_mcm · 26-04-2012 8:48pm

Never smelt that, post up a pic.

L-M · 26-04-2012 8:50pm

TestTransmission wrote: »

Nowhere near as nice as Gliptone imo.

colm_mcm wrote: »

That leather cleaner smells lovely. Must do mine again

(just to clarify I can't smell the picture)

The AG one smells absolutely unreal, hence why i bought it!

TestTransmission · 26-04-2012 8:51pm

colm_mcm wrote: »

Never smelt that, post up a pic.

gliptone-leather-care-pack-gt11-conditioner-gt12-cleaner-1237-p.jpg

L-M · 26-04-2012 8:59pm

Smells good.

sentient_6 · 26-04-2012 9:04pm

I find the AG cleaner is lovely, but the balm is rank!

MetzgerMeister · 26-04-2012 9:08pm

sentient_6 wrote: »

I find the AG cleaner is lovely, but the balm is rank!

The cleaner is basically an APC rather than a leather-specific cleaner.

delly · 26-04-2012 10:24pm

So, used the motor for the first time since I've put the regulator in, and while out and about gave the window a test. Low and behold she came back up no problem. Now it was a little sluggish for the first third, but nowhere like it was before, and I'm even thinking it may have always been like that. I have a theory on what's changed from when it was stopping halfway, but anyone wanna hazard a guess?

MetzgerMeister · 26-04-2012 10:26pm

delly wrote: »

So, used the motor for the first time since I've put the regulator in, and while out and about gave the window a test. Low and behold she came back up no problem. Now it was a little sluggish for the first third, but nowhere like it was before, and I'm even thinking it may have always been like that. I have a theory on what's changed from when it was stopping halfway, but anyone wanna hazard a guess?

Did you grease up the scissor arms and the rollers?

delly · 26-04-2012 10:29pm

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Did you grease up the scissor arms and the rollers?

Nope, neither are on this model. I haven't actually done anything else, something in the windows environment has changed so to speak.

Top Dog · 26-04-2012 11:49pm

Well in spite of the rain trying to hamper and interrupt progress, today I've managed to;

Clean out the EGR valve after leaving it soak in a bucket of diesel all night.
Cleaned out the throttle butterfly with carb cleaner.
Re-assembled the lot and re-fitted it.
Replaced the manky air filter.
Replaced the fuel filter.
Cleaned a pile of muck from the underside.

Job done until I can get a blanking kit

Before

After

Before

After

Before

After

Before

After

And throttle before

After

Still running rough after all that so fault finding continues

L-M · 26-04-2012 11:54pm

delly wrote: »

So, used the motor for the first time since I've put the regulator in, and while out and about gave the window a test. Low and behold she came back up no problem. Now it was a little sluggish for the first third, but nowhere like it was before, and I'm even thinking it may have always been like that. I have a theory on what's changed from when it was stopping halfway, but anyone wanna hazard a guess?

Sounds like a bad regulator/motor to me?

Did you replace both?

it's either one of those two or the rubbers and incorrectly placed on the runners.

Ardennes1944 · 27-04-2012 12:01am

Just in from the car. Been trying to figure out for the last 2hours why the hell theres not a peep from the subs. I kniw im doing something stupid thatll be an easy fix in the morning, at least i hope. It would have topped off what was a good day but disaster instead :mad:

delly · 27-04-2012 12:02am

Well when i switched the regulator at first, it was up a bit then stopping, and this went on on the day. So I was trying to figure it out as I think it was making contact towards the inner point, lubing it up and faced with the possibility of opening it up again. It is possible that the motor is a little weak as well, but what changed today was, or at least in my theory was, that the car was running.

I had been arsing around for the guts of 3 hours, doors open, keys in, up and down with the button etc. So my theory was that testing it after the few hours may not have been the best. Not that the battery was drained or anything, but just enough to make it struggle. As I say, today while driving it will go up and down fully without stopping, although the first third is slow, so I don't doubt there is another element at play, but the major problem I think was testing it on battery after a few hours. Sound plausible?

L-M · 27-04-2012 12:07am

Sounds very confusing!

i've had two e46 coupes and two saloons, both windows went up and down seemlessly!

delly · 27-04-2012 12:29am

Lol, and I'm sure they did on this one at one stage as well, maybe I'm being too pedantic. They only two theory's are that the motor has been stressed a bit, so in that case it may go at some stage, or the other theory is the the window is maybe a millimetre or two pushed into the inner guide giving it a touch extra resistance.

As I say, it is working fully now, but just a touch slower than the passenger window. No more embarrassing order taking at the McDonalds drive thru.

vectra · 27-04-2012 12:45am

Ardennes1944 wrote: »

Just in from the car. Been trying to figure out for the last 2hours why the hell theres not a peep from the subs. I kniw im doing something stupid thatll be an easy fix in the morning, at least i hope. It would have topped off what was a good day but disaster instead :mad:

Same reason you had no sound the last day?

JerCotter7 · 27-04-2012 12:59am

Ardennes1944 wrote: »

Just in from the car. Been trying to figure out for the last 2hours why the hell theres not a peep from the subs. I kniw im doing something stupid thatll be an easy fix in the morning, at least i hope. It would have topped off what was a good day but disaster instead :mad:

Turn up the volume

Check you didn't turn the sub channel off in the radio settings though.

Ardennes1944 · 27-04-2012 9:38am

The reason id no sound the last day was cos the sub i got was blown

Im going out again now to attack them!

langdang · 27-04-2012 10:00am

Ardennes1944 wrote: »

The reason id no sound the last day was cos the sub i got was blown

Im going out again now to attack them!

Bad earth? no earth? A common enough one to catch people.

Owen · 27-04-2012 10:07am

Make sure the remote switching input on the Sub's getting 12v!

langdang · 27-04-2012 10:09am

Owen wrote: »

Make sure the remote switching input on the Sub's getting 12v!

Yeah, get out the multimeter, you're at nothing otherwise!

Ardennes1944 · 27-04-2012 10:19am

I had the multimeter out for an hour lasy night. The remote lead is working and the amp is getting 12v with a good ground.
Gotta put coilovers on my buddys e36 in a while so gotta make this quick!

andyseadog · 27-04-2012 2:43pm

I'd like to rephrase the title to "today i did something in my car"

today i did 56mpg in my car.

the fuel light came on on sunday, i put €60.00 of diesel in, the fuel light came back on today and i've done 440 miles in the meantime.

thats good real world going in my opinion

langdang · 27-04-2012 3:57pm

Ardennes1944 wrote: »

I had the multimeter out for an hour lasy night. The remote lead is working and the amp is getting 12v with a good ground.
Gotta put coilovers on my buddys e36 in a while so gotta make this quick!

Well????

anthony4335 · 27-04-2012 4:23pm

Put the meter onto the input cables to the sub and see if you get a voltage while the stereo is playing, it will not be a stable voltage, you are only looking to see if there is a signal coming from the H.U. . Is the signal coming direct from the head or an external AMP, are you using crossovers?

dgt · 27-04-2012 9:54pm

Turned my 406 into a van :pac:

Ditched the backbox as it was the wrong one and leaking

Then got very annoyed when I saw these

So I had to do something

Now how to get the carpets out for the next day... :cool:

challengemaster · 27-04-2012 9:56pm

You never cease to amaze me the amount of work you do to your fleet of cars dgt!

Arrived home to find a nice package from BMW - everything needed to fit the rear shocks, replacement mounts, and all associated parts, inspection 2 kit and a new service booklet

superstoner90 · 27-04-2012 10:45pm

dgt wrote: »

Turned my 406 into a van :pac:.. :cool:

Em I was not expect that

Are you going to weld the back doors closed and take off the door handles and full them in with filler?

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

I was driving along in my mothers yaris today. Noticed a strange rattling noise, pulled over and couldent find any problem with the engine. Brought it to the local mechanic and he told me that I had a blue pen stuck between the dash and front window.

E39MSport · 27-04-2012 10:46pm

+1

The man is a machine.

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