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The "Today I did something to my car" thread
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Well, you kept offering to take it for a test drive over the weekend!challengemaster wrote: »Poor conzy, nobody likes his woody knob :pac:
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Thats where ive seen it soJerCotter7 wrote: »Nah CIT. Pass UCC a good bit as my brother is living somewhere near there.
challengemaster wrote: »A detailed (ba dum-tish) series of events of the course of the weekend :P
Youre working that man like a slave. Youre obviously using your gfs whip on him 0 -
Stealthirl wrote: »So picked up a second hand set of wheels and tires for the octavia and after cleaning them up a bit i then cleaning the car
sun went in just after i finished
get the car lowered and it will look sweeeeet:cool:0 -
Right.... Here's the monster post(s), as promised!
A detailed series of this weekends events, as told by Challengemaster.
Friday, before leaving galway, the tank was brimmed to the filler cap with daysul, 53 litres went in at a cost of €85, the first full tank she's had since I bought it. It was filled again in Kilkenny, as a proper MPG test, and confirmed my suspected 48MPG That night after a good playing of DIRT with conzymaher, much needed sleep was had.
Up early-ish to head to Metzgermeisters house the next day, and when we arrived before 1, he had already been up since something like 8am cleaning the MPS.
When he finished waxing the hole out of it, he was so disgusted with my engine bay at the last meet that it was first priority, after of course, taking us down to the shops for some supplies before starting...
:pac:
After much deliberation, we decided that it was in fact, the engine bay.
Metzgermeister used lots of his Mickeyarse foam, and himself and conzy got rubbing with their different sized tools
This was followed by a blast from the Karcher
And followed up with some Meguiars Engine bay sealant, it's close to spotless now.
Next on the list, was poor Metzgermeisters MPS and the mysterious clunk that developed when the OEM springs went back in.
Quite clearly we all wanted to see his rusty backboxes!
But within minutes, this was spotted
Mechanic had forgotten to put back the bolt holding the droplink in place.
So after popping down to the local hardware shop, we picked up some bolts hoping they'd fit.
After some more messing under the car, he now had a secure droplink. Rusty backbox repairs to the rescue.
Conzy then fitted these (amber flashing) indicator bulbs to his e46
huge difference, and he's now road legal. :eek:0 -
Then the front of my car and wing mirrors got covered in 3M and masking tape. The next job Metzgermeister needed to do to my car was restore the washed out looking plastic around my wing mirrors, with his new bottle of Gtechniq C4 permanent trim restorer.
We were all pretty impressed with what it did...
It even managed to break my mirror! (with the help of one conzy :pac:)
It started to get quite dark, quite quickly after the MPS was sorted, but that didn't stop us.
Next on the list was a headlight restoration / improvement with the DA.
Sure enough, he's seen yet again in compromising positions with gingers... :pac:
And the headlights now are much improved, still some stone chips however, but a lot better. Also a glimpse of the shiny engine bay
Were we finished yet? Not a chance!
After a failed attempt at trying to remove conzy's ginger
A lot of scrubbing followed on my durty daysul downpipe.
and the result..
Still determined, myself and conzy removed the trim from the interior of our cars for carbon wrapping...
Then we decided to call it a night and go for chips in thurles, the most confusing road system in the world :pac:
After leaving Metzgermeister to his beauty sleep, we headed back to Kilkenny.
The next day, conzy and myself started wrapping the trim we took out.
Which turned out to be not anywhere near as difficult as we thought0 -
And finally, the results of the weekend.... after reinstalling all the trim...
Still have most of the roll of CF that was bought too, so there shall be more to come.
And before anyone says it, I know my brake wear light is on, the sensors are just disconnected at the minute
It also looks like the Eibachs have settled in fully now, serious drop in the rear. Can just about squeeze one finger in at an angle
And also my new bushes arrived on friday
So... there's still quite a bit to do with the car, but this was quite the productive weekend
Oh, and of course, this was spotted on the drive home...
Serious boo, lad!0 -
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The lads were saying that all right ... >_>challengemaster wrote: »Can just about squeeze one finger in at an angle.
And are you sure you didn't just look in the mirror!
(The trim restorer was well nigh miraculous all right though in its effects, seriously impressive!)0 -
challengemaster wrote: »
I really want to carbon fibre my center console. What stuff did you use? Looks fairly good. Would probably wrap the one from the parts car though. Just in case :P
Although E36 come with shiny carbon wrap from factory(MParallel's car)
My inspiration
I would probably get over not having shiny CF though :P0 -
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Chuck_Norris wrote: »Eh, what??
You got a hotel voucher for booking your NCT online?
Must book mine now so!!!
Yup!!
http://www.nctshotelbreaks.com/resultssearchroomonly.html?inday=17&inmonthyear=2012-09&nn=2&adults=2&children=0&user_language=en&ch=255&price_group=8
3 night midweek break with 1 evening meal and brekkie for €195, gonna head to Galway or Kilkenny in September, not to be sniffed at!
I got two of them cos I made 2 seperate bookings 0
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