The "Today I did something to my car" thread

Tallon

...Cleaned the car, got caught by the paparazzi!

Rich11

vectra wrote: »

cgal093 wrote: »

^^

Really nice,

My girlfriend would kill for that car...

My Niece is selling her white gtc :P

Stick it up on bangeromics il have a look

vectra

Rich11 wrote: »

Stick it up on bangeromics il have a look

No Prob.
Can you wait a while though?
Like 8 more years :pac:

eringobragh

Nissan doctor wrote: »

And getting rid of the accelera's pleeease.....I understand that they were likely on it when you got the car and I don't want to sound like I'm having a go but all that time and money spent on making the car so perfect and clean and then you have the cheapest chinese sh1te between you and all that work being rapidly undone.:eek:

I was on Holidays last 2 weeks and only seeing this now, your quite right they were on the car when I got it....I had noticed the car was a bit sluggish stopping in the wet but nothing major though..

..I know whats next on the shopping list.:pac:

YouTookMyName

YouTookMyName wrote: »

Bought a Maxxis MAZ4S Victra to replace the dunlop that lose it's life to a kerb and egged the side wall.

Impressive tyre. £62 fitted which is the cheap than camskill delivered.

Thinking of matching the other side and taking off the enduro.

Finally got around to matching them up.

Pothole 1 Enduro 0.




The runway enduros really are crap tyres.

Voodoomelon

New auxiliary fan arrived today...for an E39, half the price.

Ice cold air-con again, bliss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gfPW-YOZ40

Top Dog

Finally got it shifted to a mechanic with a clue to have a look at it and hopefully will have a diagnosis during the week.

Paddy@CIRL

Managed to find a gap in the rain and got out to clean the car - Iron X the wheels, Snowfoam, rinse, two bucket wash, rinse, CleanCar's Rinseaid, Rinse, Dry, CG Speed Wipe, CG New Look Trim Tyre Gel, Armor All Wheel Protectant (been trying to source this for ages to try) and APC the engine bay and hoovered, dusted the inside. I was going to re-polish & re-wax the car but decided I couldn't be arsed.



Also whipped off the front plate and holder to see if I could get away with bumper plugs when I do the plate removal but found no less than TWELVE holes drilled into it. Need to get a few bob together next to get those filled and painted. Looks well without the plate (will relocate the plate to the tow hook so can be removed easily)

cgal093

Rain??? :O

L-M

If you're ever selling that car I'd like to buy it please!

-Corkie-

What happened the jeep Top Dog. I pass your house everyday going to work..

Top Dog

-Corkie- wrote: »

What happened the jeep Top Dog. I pass your house everyday going to work..

Suspected fuel pump failure Will hopefully have news during the week - and hoping I'm wrong.

whyulittle

Got some SMDs supposedly specifically for the Astra. Nice light, but too big for the fittings, particularly the front. :mad:


20120817_202442 by whyulittle, on Flickr


20120819_145137 by whyulittle, on Flickr


20120818_231504 by whyulittle, on Flickr

Ardennes1944

are the rear ones canbus bulbs? they need to be. 42mm festoon is needed for the front courtesy light.

goz83

Today I stitched on one of those leather steering wheel sleeves on the Zafira. Looks well and no more steering wheel crap all over my hands

whyulittle

Must not be. Despite working in the pic above, when I put the second in all the lights went. Fuse didn't blow though, and eventually they came back of their own accord. All the originals are in and working now.

Ardennes1944

i wouldnt even try and put smds in the rear lights, people have terrible problems with them. i melted my light fitting even with canbus ones. the front and glovebox are fine though.

whyulittle

It's alright, the back seats are purely for show!

JJJJNR

Fitted my 312mm brake disks yesterday, and they went on no problem (thanks folks), was a bit of a pain some of the bolts were welded (almost) but after about 45mins of fighting with them they were freed, you really need a pit to work on these things. Got rid of all the disk rust by submerging them in white spirits for a week which got rid of all the rust and left me with smooth rust free disks. :cool:

Was going to fit the rear disks but noticed the seals for the bearings looked a bit shot, I think this maybe down to the white spirits, there was a bit of grease coming out *not sure if these are supposed to be sealed?* but need to look into getting them along with one of the rear calipers refurbished, as don't want to risk one of them seizing also a rubber boot on one caliper is punctured, it might be possible to transfer the old ones to these not sure but work in progress.. brakes are noticeably better with just the new front disks.

Also changed the fuel filter, easy enough job, might put that on a shorter replacement usually do it every 40k.

kiddums

Ok so not today, but Saturday. I did this out of boredom.




:pac:

Daniel S

^^



Nobody will be able to tell the difference! :pac:

Tallon

Boredom?

Why not wash it or something productive :P

kiddums

Daniel S wrote: »

^^

Nobody will be able to tell the difference! :pac:

Poor mans version.:p

Tallon wrote: »

Boredom?

Why not wash it or something productive :P

Too dark and wet, plus I washed it earlier.:p

CianRyan

I think it's deadly, would never do it to my car though.

cgal093

New engine going into the Punto



****ing ****ting myself when the engine was like that!

L-M

kiddums, that steering wheel cover.

MetzgerMeister

Limerick man wrote: »

kiddums, that steering wheel cover.

LOL!!

Kiddums, please say that's System of a Down you have playing on the CD player?

kiddums

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

LOL!!

Kiddums, please say that's System of a Down you have playing on the CD player?

I had to check what was on the display. Of course it's SOAD.

And whats wrong with the cover?????

MetzgerMeister

kiddums wrote: »

I had to check what was on the display. Of course it's SOAD.

And whats wrong with the cover?????

Just checking! It could have been some pop ****e for all I know like Niki Minge and Pappy Sugar or some bollix like that :P

The cover is a bit on the "meat in pastry and door unlocking item" side.

cgal093

Supposed to be changing the clutch on the Fiesta but the heavens opened :mad: Its covered with a sheet of plastic and work will resume tomorrow morning.

Also, cleaned the other cars, just before it pissed rain!

Only went over these two with the power washe



Used some car shampoo I picked up in Aldi ages ago on the Range Rover and it came up nice Used Demon Shine spray on shine afterwards