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The "Today I did something to my car" thread
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Ya musta been driving like a granny in a Micra to achieve that! :eek:
Drove to Galway and back from Dublin the weekend and made 28.25mpg. Not bad considering I had the cruise at 80mph for the majority of the journey.
EDIT: Just saw the 105kmph post - you were driving like a granny!
I always take it handy if i'm not in a rush, driving at the limit in this country on motorway can be infuriating. Got 34mpg all the same at 125kph to galway and back with 4 lads and luggage. They do well on motorways, shockin in town!0 -
Voodoomelon wrote: »They do well on motorways, shockin in town!
Yep! Guts of 30mpg on a nealy two tonne 3.5L barge @ 80mph is pretty good IMO!
City driving - not so much.
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Changed the built in headunit in the Civic over the weekend. The difference in sound quality now is unbelievable, it really shows how crap the standard headunit is. The adaptor for the steering wheel controls doesn't work, I have been back onto the company who make the conversion kit and they were having problems with a JVC unit at the time aswell, but they are going to send me out a modified harness which should sort it.
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eringobragh wrote: »Nice might be work looking into a dummy faceplate for when its parked up..pro be ok as it looks difficult enough to remove.
The headunit has a removeable face
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E38 7 series fire extinguisher, about €200 with all required brackets:
http://www.realoem.com/bmw/showparts.do?model=GE42&mospid=47508&btnr=72_0412&hg=72&fg=95
And its a big ugly brute of a thing:
Aldi's finest extinguisher, €9.99 and miscellaneous bolts, nuts and washers, about €4.90:
And its in there rock solid, hard to get the damn thing out of the bracket, very pleased!0 -
RoverJames wrote: »:eek:
I'm doing Cork City to almost the Red Cow on Monday, I'm expecting 30 on the noseRoverJames wrote: »Dunno, POS I suppose. I'll be trying to stick to the limit for the trip, I'll report back
28.9mpg for 320 miles.0 -
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Got a load of stuff done to the car this weekend! challengemaster came down to kilkenny and we both installed the Eibach Pro Springs in his 320d and my 325. Learned a lot, and it took a bit longer than we thought.. Im still in bits
We also installed clear / smoked corners and side repeaters on my car and cm changed one of his mirror covers he might post a few pics.
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Removing the old spring
Difference between stock and eibach springs!
Installing the eibach spring
Cleaned all the components and cleaned the top mount bearing with WD40 and re-greased it with fresh grease
There was a small but noticeable drop but its supposed to take a few days and a few 100 miles to settle in.
There is a big difference in handling, theres a firmer more stable ride and the steering is much heavier and more precise which is nice.
Picking up a set of MV2 alloys friday night in Louth and hoping to get some decent part worn tyres saturday and the angel eyes are going in too.. wooh!0 -
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Thanks lads, I thought it was a bit dated looking but the small mods are bringing it up nicely. Cant wait to get the MV2s on as the current E90 alloys are the wrong offset and they rub a lot when theres a few passengers and a full boot.
Your mad 166man the orange indicators are like something off a JCB!
Looking into getting black trim to replace the chrome or spraying the existing one not sure.. and maybe a M Sport front bumper and ill be happy0 -
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conzymaher wrote: »Thanks lads, I thought it was a bit dated looking but the small mods are bringing it up nicely. Cant wait to get the MV2s on as the current E90 alloys are the wrong offset and they rub a lot when theres a few passengers and a full boot.
Your mad 166man the orange indicators are like something off a JCB!
Looking into getting black trim to replace the chrome or spraying the existing one not sure.. and maybe a M Sport front bumper and ill be happy
Maybe seeing the entire car would help, or driving it for that matter. I don't know there's something sleeperish about the JCB tail lights. Pull up against a 318i and you wouldn't know, until you put the boot to the floor! Fine machine though I really like it.
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MV2's
I thought that was them but I wasn't sure, go raibh mile!:) They're gonna look great. Probably get decent money for the E60 wheels too?0 -
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I dont think I would be changing the alloys for a while if they weren't rubbing but they are unusable on my car. On the way to dublin the other day with a full car there was 2mm of clearence between the arch and the wheels
every little bump made the car scrape the tyres.
I always liked the look of the MV2s long before I even considered buying a 325 so hopefully they will look well on the car.0 -
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Due to my "incident" on Friday, I was out of college today. Also as a result, it's difficult to do any interesting work
However, bored out of my tree, I washed my car and van
Then the Alfa...
Then the BMW...
(Scabby paint near the wing. Needs sorting!)
Then the Seicento...
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Pure copy/pasta from BMW-driver... This is (again) what myself and conzy did at the weekendChallengemaster wrote: »Well, if anyone's been reading these threads lately and seen conzy's 325i thread you'll know we both tackled the Eibach fitting ourselves at the weekend.
Armed with the finest of BMW approved tools (:D), we got to work
Because we're both idiots, we never took before photos. There's enough photos of the "process" in conzy's thread, and he was the one taking the during pics...
What the instructions don't tell you, is you may need to manufacture a 16 and 1/4 spanner for a very odd shaped nut.
Here's some quick after pics - my car is filthy, it was raining too... bleh
And we had a few of these left over at the end, no clue where they're missing from
And a very quick snap I took before heading for home
Problems found:
1) Some gobshíte changed one shock by itself and now the other one has failed, result: I need to buy two new shocks.
2) I'm nearly certain that my front driver side caliper is sticking...
Now I am certain my caliper is sticking like a mofo. I've come to a funny little question, fix it, or do a 330 brake upgrade on the front. I know this will skew the brake bias a little more, so I'll either tackle it with more aggressive pads on the rear or if that fails, fit a brake bias switch.0 -
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Savage car CM I was parked beside you at the meet. You should get a set of pressed metal plates for it..
I'll be sorting german style pressed plates at some stage in the near future, I'm worrying more about the slight mechanical issues (ie. the sticking caliper and broken shock) first There's always time to beautify the car! 0 -
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God bless mr eibach!
My own 7k km rule was reached since the last one so i Changed the oil and oil filter today with fully synthetic 5w30 again. This is definitely the easiest car ive done this on, its literally a 10minute job. Also bought angel eye headlights from germany, they have a lever to switch from lhd to rhd which is obviously necessary.
Ordered corsa opc indicator bezels too.
Dont know if ill end up using the angel eyes or not but i bought them mostly for the projector headlight as i want to put xenons on this car
In the last week ive
Fitted lowering springs
Changed the coil (temporary job)
Changed spark plugs
Oil and oil filter
Bought new headlights, xenons and vxr surrounds 0 -
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Due to my "incident" on Friday, I was out of college today. Also as a result, it's difficult to do any interesting work
However, bored out of my tree, I washed my car and van
Then the Alfa...
Then the BMW...
(Scabby paint near the wing. Needs sorting!)
Then the Seicento...
Take that boredom!!! :pac:
I've always wondered....
How many of these cars do you drive?
How do you drive them so much that they're always being fixed?0 -
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mrs crilly wrote: »Himself picked up the E46 this even from Nissan Doctor. Took it for a joyride tiz driving grand happy out now its fixed. PROPERLY this time! So ya may open up a tab for me now Nissan
Glad its going well for you at last:)0 -
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Ardennes1944 wrote: »lets play find the sump nut every time! I always wondered why they done put a retainer on the sump lug similar to the petrol cap on a chainsaw etc
no more find the sump nut!0 -
i also had some horrible looking bobbling on the bolster of the driver seat. thanks to EPMs tip at the meet last sunday i used a razor to try and fix it
some of the seat before. it was like this on about a 6inch square patch
the bolster afterwards with the fluff accumulated
http://oi40.tinypic.com/2vuewzk.jpg
the end result of fluff, delighted. the seat is completely bobble free now, thanks Eoin
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conzymaher wrote: » every time! I always wondered why they done put a retainer on the sump lug similar to the petrol cap on a chainsaw etc
no more find the sump nut!
but thats the fun part conzy!
ive done almost 8k kms since i got it last May and its the second oil and oil filter change that said it was long overdue one when i got it, the previous owner was a bit negligent of it id say after the warranty ran out 0 -
conzymaher wrote: » every time! I always wondered why they done put a retainer on the sump lug similar to the petrol cap on a chainsaw etc.
no more find the sump nut!
I put one of these on my sump. I know they are not suitable for every car but it makes it quicker and cleaner to drain the oil.
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