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The "Today I did something to my car" thread

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 817 ✭✭✭Mr Magners


    What is that.

    Did you draw the picture?

    :D


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


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,569 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    petrolGETTY200806_228x181.jpg


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,088 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,780 ✭✭✭sentient_6


    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.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 28,575 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Tallon wrote: »
    petrolGETTY200806_228x181.jpg

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


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


    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!


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


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    Flock the roof lining Limerick Man. It'll be awesome.
    tumblr_llu7z59YG51qfa8sc.jpg


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


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


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭I Was VB


    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:


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,785 ✭✭✭CrowdedHouse


    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

    Seven Worlds will Collide



  • Registered Users Posts: 12,672 ✭✭✭✭R.O.R


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

    Is that Black Felt by any chance?


  • Registered Users Posts: 15,479 ✭✭✭✭vectra


    Put a SET OF -40MM Springs on the civic


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


    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!


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,686 ✭✭✭✭Zubeneschamali


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    R.O.R wrote: »
    Is that Black Felt by any chance?
    No, it's really really really really dark blue:D


  • Registered Users Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 15,479 ✭✭✭✭vectra


    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.. :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,025 ✭✭✭✭-Corkie-


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


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


    -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?


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,780 ✭✭✭sentient_6


    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.




  • 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 :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭ottostreet


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,432 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    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:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,805 ✭✭✭✭Gary ITR


    R.O.R wrote: »
    Is that Black Felt by any chance?

    I think I'm the only one that got that


  • Registered Users Posts: 774 ✭✭✭Seperate


    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 :D

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


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,683 ✭✭✭✭Owen


    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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    230035_10150244579123413_547383412_8711883_6032441_n.jpg


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


    Is that in the Mg O.o


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  • Registered Users Posts: 15,479 ✭✭✭✭vectra


    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.

    http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/7392/photo5rc.jpg

    http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/230035_10150244579123413_547383412_8711883_6032441_n.jpg


    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


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