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The "Today I did something to my car" thread

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  • #502
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Yesterday I took off the driver side lock, and put in a new lock.

    With no central locking/remote locking this meant I now have a new key for the driver door and a separate one for the ignition/passenger door. Reason this was needed was that I broke the lock on the driver side breaking into the car a few weeks ago, having accidentally left the keys (& dog) in there. Whoops.

    Still, live and learn. Always good to know how to break into your own car I guess.


  • #503
    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    Gary ITR wrote: »
    It wasn't as tough a decision as I thought it would be. Sitting in the back of it on Saturday with all the seats out of it was a bit surreal and for a brief moment I changed my mind!

    I think I'm going to have to buy another DC2, honestly nothing else I've driven comes close when it comes to Smiles Per Gallon. I've been driving what is quite possibly the best DC5 in the country and I still pined after my own car

    The bits you get off your own would be handy...but I could see that being a viscous circle that will set you off again:p


  • #504
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    Today I noticed the airbox was loose, so out came the Gorilla Tape. Oh yeah, and both coolant and oil are disappearing down some unseen plughole.


  • #505
    Gary ITR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,801 ✭✭✭✭Gary ITR


    vectra wrote: »
    FYP :D

    That's exactly what I was implying lol!
    TestTransmission wrote: »
    Had new rear discs,pads,calipers rebuilt and clutch master cylinder replaced yesterday.Car feels fantastic


    Please note,I didn't do any of this work*

    And a savage dyno run :) I was thinking 205 myself tbh so I was surprised at the end result
    EPM wrote: »
    The bits you get off your own would be handy...but I could see that being a viscous circle that will set you off again:p

    Well a lot of the bits off my own will be staying in place. The exhaust/airbox/suspension stuff will be staying put. Handy thing is though I can save maps on my laptop so I can share my Demon ECU(1200 quids worth of kit) between the two cars. I'm under no illusions this time though, I know as soon as I buy it (if I buy it) it'll be ripped apart and tuned to within an inch of it's life lol


  • #506
    Gary ITR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,801 ✭✭✭✭Gary ITR


    Confab wrote: »
    Today I noticed the airbox was loose, so out came the Gorilla Tape. Oh yeah, and both coolant and oil are disappearing down some unseen plughole.

    Oh dear, what's the car? Any mayo on the dipstick or oil cap?


  • #507
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    Confab wrote: »
    Today I noticed the airbox was loose, so out came the Gorilla Tape. Oh yeah, and both coolant and oil are disappearing down some unseen plughole.

    Check your rad and sump??


  • #508
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,660 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    BMW plastic strikes again.
    Window regulator wheel chewed up. :/

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  • #509
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    einheisserschre wrote: »
    Check your rad and sump??

    Nah I found the source of the oil leak a few minutes ago - the oil pressure switch is leaking. Took ten minutes to find the leak with a flashlight in the twilight after a month of halfhearted searching in the day! Filled her back up to max with 15W40.

    The coolant overhead tank has little bits of white in it and a bit of oil but the oil dipstick seems free of mayo some bubbles when I rev it and the coolant level is dropping slowly. There was 'steam' coming out of the oil filler cap for a bit - not sure what that means?


  • #510
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    Noticed my CMax (Diesel) was a bit sluggish to start the last few days.
    Then thought I felt a power flatspot every now and then.
    Then, when dropping car into third and flooring it, lost almost all power for a second.
    So dropped by motorfactors and bought new fuel filter and, lo and behold, the old unit was black, brown, manky, clogged, etc...
    Just wish I wouldn't have to noodle over the engine so much after changing it over, even opening the bleed valve and attaching a suction pump to pull the diesel through, I still had to attach booster pack or the battery would have died.
    But she spluttered back to life, and on a good, hard test drive power was plentiful and signs of bogging down and bucking where gone.
    Only put about 50000 km on that fuel filter, is that too much or too little?


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  • #511
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 23,339 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Voodoomelon wrote: »
    BMW plastic strikes again.
    ...........


    Was reading on a Rover forum some time back how many manufacturers invested heavily in plastic components in the late 90s early 00s. Obviously as a cost saving exercise, all of the designs worked perfectly but the car manufacturers had to rely heavily on the plastic manufacturers claims on how the material would age.

    'twas in relation to a plastic thermostat housing on the Rover KV6 he was referring to specifically but he was speaking in general terms too.


  • #512
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,660 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    Interesting stuff, i'd well believe it. In fairness, 11 years is pretty good going. But sometimes you have to scratch your head and wonder if using plastic in certain instances really is that much of a cost saver.

    I mean if those pulleys were metal instead of plastic, how much more would that have cost? The pressure from the cable is immense, how they lasted this long is beyond me.


  • #513
    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    I didn't actually do anything myself...

    Got a full service today and a brake fluid change. Getting upgraded pads and lines soon but the brake fluid was changed too. The cars running very well right now and the the engine seems to be getting better with mileage.

    Changed the tyres on the front to match the rear (Dunlop SP Sport Maxx that I've had 3 or 4 sets of at this stage). It showed me how crap the federals the garage put on when buying were. No wheelspin in 2nd, ample grip and a huge reduction in road noise and vibration. Feels like a different car. Also got a tyre place that matched camskill give or take a few squid. Passed a day off shopping around and got a good look at some winter tyres too and plenty of advice. Found that the best value generally was in the one man type of operations, although I didn't buy my tyres in one. The chains usually said a price and that was it.

    Had a great laugh at one chain that told me Triangles were a decent mid range tyre and there was no need to go for federals again as it was money down the drain:rolleyes: €70 retail for a 225/40/18 is not going to end well.


  • #514
    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    Voodoomelon wrote: »
    Interesting stuff, i'd well believe it. In fairness, 11 years is pretty good going. But sometimes you have to scratch your head and wonder if using plastic in certain instances really is that much of a cost saver.

    I mean if those pulleys were metal instead of plastic, how much more would that have cost? The pressure from the cable is immense, how they lasted this long is beyond me.

    When I was getting a gearbox rebuilt the guy doing it said about 50 cents extra per box on better quality parts would have saved the hassle of all the failures that the particular model had:rolleyes:


  • #515
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 23,339 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    EPM wrote: »
    When I was getting a gearbox rebuilt the guy doing it said about 50 cents extra per box on better quality parts would have saved the hassle of all the failures that the particular model had:rolleyes:

    Nylon caged bearings instead of steel?
    As in the steel ones were a small bit more expensive.


  • #516
    PaulKK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭PaulKK


    Black_Knight wrote: »
    Not today, but on Monday I said id give the car a good going over. Wash, de-bug/tar, wax, clean the wheels of breakdust etc and polish up those tires.

    Wasnt hugely dirty to begin with but heres the before and afters:
    The attached files are the originals (very big), but heres some nice resized ones for ye.

    ...


    Any recommendations for wax next time I give it go?

    ..

    That's a very well kept A3.

    Recommend Megs NXT 2.0 or Megs Carnuba Wax.


    Currently have NXT 2.0 and a top layer of Carnuba on my car and it is beading beautifully for the last 5 weeks.


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  • #517
    Hal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    I changed my brake fluid. The stuff that came out of it was like hangover urine (that colour) with bits of black in it. The pedal responce is alot firmer now. I used a gunson eezibleed kit, well worth the money. :)


  • #518
    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    RoverJames wrote: »
    Nylon caged bearings instead of steel?
    As in the steel ones were a small bit more expensive.

    It was to do with the bearings alright - I was more interested in the €€€€€ bit at the time tbh:(


  • #519
    vectra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,580 ✭✭✭✭vectra


    EPM wrote: »
    I didn't actually do anything myself...

    Got a full service today and a brake fluid change. Getting upgraded pads and lines soon but the brake fluid was changed too. The cars running very well right now and the the engine seems to be getting better with mileage.

    Changed the tyres on the front to match the rear (Dunlop SP Sport Maxx that I've had 3 or 4 sets of at this stage). It showed me how crap the federals the garage put on when buying were.

    Glad the car is running well bow for you.

    Tarrants put Federals o nit and you accepted them :eek:
    They were on the 1.3 civic I have and were brutal in the wet,
    Did you get the new ones from Mike?


  • #520
    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    vectra wrote: »
    Did you get the new ones from Mike?

    I was about to as they were the cheapest until I got a call from a place that offered them €30 each cheaper as they only had two left. I knew they wouldn't match that plus they only had one in stock yesterday. I might get two more off him for the back soon even though they don't need replacing for a good while yet.


  • #521
    vectra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,580 ✭✭✭✭vectra


    EPM wrote: »
    I was about to as they were the cheapest until I got a call from a place that offered them €30 each cheaper as they only had two left. I knew they wouldn't match that plus they only had one in stock yesterday. I might get two more off him for the back soon even though they don't need replacing for a good while yet.

    let me know if and when you do call to him.. I will give you a shout down. ;)


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  • #522
    L-M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


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  • #523
    Do-more
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,748 ✭✭✭Do-more


    Limerick man wrote: »
    315598_10150768562505176_805400175_20555915_7654681_n.jpg

    How much did you roll it back by? :D

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  • #524
    L-M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    Do-more wrote: »
    How much did you roll it back by? :D

    Lol I met a fella before and he had 170,000 on his 320d, turns out it had been clocked twice before he bought it and he reckoned there was well over 240,000 on it. Mine has had one previous owner and there's only so many times you can go around Ireland in ten years :P


  • #525
    Do-more
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,748 ✭✭✭Do-more


    Do ya remember the famous silver ebay Volvo import that was outed on here many moons ago? :cool:

    invest4deepvalue.com



  • #526
    L-M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    Do-more wrote: »
    Do ya remember the famous silver ebay Volvo import that was outed on here many moons ago? :cool:

    No but there's a 08 Vectra OPC estate that was outted out one on the forums recently enough to have over three times the mileage on it.


  • #527
    johnos1984
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,096 ✭✭✭johnos1984


    Do-more wrote: »
    Do ya remember the famous silver ebay Volvo import that was outed on here many moons ago? :cool:
    Link?


  • #528
    johnos1984
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,096 ✭✭✭johnos1984


    Limerick man wrote: »
    No but there's a 08 Vectra OPC estate that was outted out one on the forums recently enough to have over three times the mileage on it.
    I'll just leave this here.....
    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/2265218


  • #529
    L-M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    Top of arrange... lol


  • #530
    Do-more
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,748 ✭✭✭Do-more


    johnos1984 wrote: »
    Link?

    The original thread was pulled, but this thread relates to the same car, it got a haircut from 162,000 miles to 43,350 miles!

    invest4deepvalue.com



  • #531
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    Limerick man wrote: »
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    What worries me is that according to that Speedo, you're on the move.
    (I'll get me coat)


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  • #532
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »
    What worries me is that according to that Speedo, you're on the move.
    (I'll get me coat)

    Don't be silly, he's just having the car dyno'd :P


  • #533
    Ardennes1944
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,238 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    Today I found out my car is actually a very comfy cruiser. Drove from cork to Bangor and back in the same day and got home at 5am without a sore back!


  • #534
    challengemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,930 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    Deutschlandfürimmer7 wrote: »
    Today I found out my car is actually a very comfy cruiser. Drove from cork to Bangor and back in the same day and got home at 5am without a sore back!

    But.....it's not 5am yet? :pac:


  • #535
    Ardennes1944
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,238 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    well...yesterday so :D


  • #536
    Daved_XB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,273 ✭✭✭Daved_XB


    Fitted new front disks & pads today... the wheel wobble finally got to bad to live with

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  • #537
    neilthefunkeone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,522 ✭✭✭neilthefunkeone


    Changed out gearbox oil on my E36.. Was too tight doing it on the ground under a jack so brought it to the Pitlane.. Was very handy getting it up on a ramp..

    Discovered my exhaust hanger is broken while under there..:rolleyes:


  • #538
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,660 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    Daved_XB wrote: »
    Fitted new front disks & pads today... the wheel wobble finally got to bad to live with

    IMG_2396.jpg

    I always spray the primed area around the hub on the disc with Werth alloy wheel paint, make it look much cleaner. Good job.


  • #539
    dharn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭dharn


    Confab wrote: »
    Don't be silly, he's just having the car dyno'd :P

    you will have that coat wore out:p


  • #540
    no1beemerfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭no1beemerfan


    Today I did a lot to my '97 Laguna....will be doing around 600 - 1,000 miles next weekend in England so did the jobs I'd lined up to do but hadn't a chance until today

    I've changed the oil, oilfilter, airfilter, pollen filter, sparkplugs, cleaned the throttle body housing and breather pipes, put on a new back exhaust box, replaced the brake caliper front drivers side as the rubber had perished and it was grabbing the disk slightly the last two weeks, replaced the pistons on the rear wheels because when I went to bleed them earlier this year both bleeding nipples sheared off! and put in fresh brake fluid and put a new alternator belt on the car too. Changed the fuel filter too. I also checked the gear oil level and tightened the nuts on the oil sump as its weeping a wee bit. Will replace the gasket soon and also spotted a small leak in the power steering hose so want to get it sorted too.


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  • #541
    Mc Love
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    On "tuesday I did something to my car"
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  • #542
    franksm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭franksm


    Good old snow foam. Lots of fun to use but I find it's only good as a pre-wash really.

    What are those DRLs ? They look nice and discrete


  • #543
    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    franksm wrote: »
    What are those DRLs ? They look nice and discrete

    Are they Ford or aftermarket DRL's? The placement looks a little odd.

    I did a boring thing to my car - swapped the head unit for the original. Need to get the RNS510 updated and properly programmed into the car so for the luxury of having audio controls again I took it out. Might just flog it.

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  • #544
    Mar4ix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,351 ✭✭✭Mar4ix


    my puntie .... flushed 3 times cooling system with some chemicals .... disconnect heater matrix, and joint pipes, as there will be some time, until ill change matrix .. (very rusty inside ... no really heating any more) , changed water pump ... odd 50 euro ... thermostat with housing ... 25 euro for an original fiat part from ebay,... most important thing - adjusted timing properly using not only marks on crankshaft pulley and camshaft pulley , but also marks on flywheel ... wont believe how my punty is smooth on any rev range. he he .. like new.


  • #545
    no1beemerfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭no1beemerfan


    Mc Love wrote: »
    On "tuesday I did something to my car"

    You didn't do a good job on the number plate :pac:



    Last night I serviced (oil, oilfilter, airfilter and sparkplugs) my Micra and the mother's MINI. Had to bring out yard lights as its getting dark early. The summers' gone Joe! Mum was saying the lights were crap on her car....so looked at that and for some reason the drivers side had dropped and was pointing to the floor! So fixed that too.


  • #546
    Mc Love
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    franksm wrote: »
    Good old snow foam. Lots of fun to use but I find it's only good as a pre-wash really.

    What are those DRLs ? They look nice and discrete

    Yeah I normally give the car a quick spray, then use the snow foam, then spray off the snow foam and give it a wash, then spray off suds etc, then dry and polish windows etc.

    The DRL's are from MS Design. They look the business
    EPM wrote: »
    Are they Ford or aftermarket DRL's? The placement looks a little odd.

    They were in the Ford catalogue but you had to purchase them from MS Design. I purchased them from Duncan Smith automotive in the UK after talking to stockroom lad in Cavanaghs of Charleville.

    drls.jpg
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  • #547
    L-M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    The background of that picture looks like a place awfully close to where I live haha


  • #548
    langdang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,857 ✭✭✭langdang


    no1beemerfan wrote: »
    Last night I serviced (oil, oilfilter, airfilter and sparkplugs) my Micra and the mother's MINI. .... Mum was saying the lights were crap on her car....so looked at that and for some reason the drivers side had dropped and was pointing to the floor! So fixed that too.
    Be careful with that, you could find that next week it'll be pointing at the sky!

    The motors for aligning the headlights seem to be a little lazy in some first en MINIs. Herself's has a lazy drivers light, some days it doesn't want to do anything.
    Can you hear it moving when you turn the car on first - you should hear a whirring, and you'll see the beam moving if you turn the lights on as you do it.
    I think it might be dirt in the mechanism or a bad contact - neither light would respond to the switch inside the car when we got it first, they were pointed down to the ground as you saw on your mothers. Now both work most of time. I've heard frantic wiggling of the switch will wake them up?

    I can recommend Osram Nightbreakers, herself is very happy with them in her MINI.


  • #549
    no1beemerfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭no1beemerfan


    Thanks for that langdang....will have a look next time I'm at the homeplace. I can't remember if I heard the whirring but then the radio was on!


  • #550
    challengemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,930 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    Spark plugs replaced yesterday, oil change and air filter the week before...which were only slightly insanely overdue >_>

    Gearbox oil probably next week....


  • #551
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


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    The block is underneath covered by a bag to stop dirt falling in.


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