The "Today I did something to my car" thread

E39MSport

DA'd up the Lens covers. N/S done on the pic.

Mar4ix

Changed starter motor on my punto. As it worthless car in market, and i need it just for little driving, then i decided not goin sell for long time, and will put brand new starter motor. Ordered in uk ebay - title said - brand new, unopened... etc, ok.. 110 euro delivered, ok.
Today received, and discovered, that this is bloody reconditioned one, emailed seller, he offered half price refund. Ok, Fair enough , let it be reconditioned.
Today installed (had to adopt a bit, cos it wasn't exactly same what i was after), one connection on solenoid was different, so took off my old unit solenoid, and put on reconditioned one.
Works great .

dharn

well done, great to come through something like that and come out smiling

I Was VB

Put a spoiler on my yoke and replaced the bootlid along the way, going in for paint 1st thing in the morning, the spoiler was a big mutha 3 piece wrap around with two coner pieces on the 1/4 panels so a bit drilling was required.

One like this;


Just hope it looks this good in white!

Also painted the alloys on her aswell

mikewest

Fitted 4 Falken tyres today on what is not strictly my car (the missus drives it all the time). Like swapping vaseline for glue

langdang

Brighter headlights bulbs, LED parking lights. Tried new speakers for size but will need some adapting. Job for another day!

ottostreet

Cleaned up the remaining pool of sour milk from a litre I left in the car and burst.

Oh god the smell.

L-M

ottostreet wrote: »

Cleaned up the remaining pool of sour milk from a litre I left in the car and burst.

Oh god the smell.

Worst-smell-in-the-world

Yakult

Today I replaced the wiper stalk and indicator/light stalk with new ones!

Next I'm going to color the inside of the headlights black, get xenon set and replace the standard grill with badgeless grill (while removing the other badges on the car).

vectra

EPM wrote: »

I bought a few little bits for my yoke today. Bought canbus LED number plate lights, front and rear LED interior lights and a new gear lever from the MY2010 onwards vRS. Amazing how small little things make you happier.

Where did you get the bulbs??

Today I fitted a 4-2-1 on the Civic with De-cat.
Nice roar off her now :pac:

EPM

Bought them on superskoda.

dgt

I discovered a coolant leak coming from under my van. Turns out it was the heater, leaky. So out came the heater and everything from the front seats onwards... Just have to put the speedo back with a working temp gauge

L-M

My 3 euro wax beading

flyingsnail

Limerick man wrote: »

My 3 euro wax beading

Nice, I did mine yesterday.

deaglan169

did the same myself yesterday:D

tried several times to upload pic so here is the link

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ei2gfb/5981514826/

W.Shakes-Beer

Fine, since there's wax porn going:

Owen

dgt wrote: »

I discovered a coolant leak coming from under my van. Turns out it was the heater, leaky. So out came the heater and everything from the front seats onwards... Just have to put the speedo back with a working temp gauge

A can of Novastop works amazing well for that. I've never seen the like of it, it could stop a hole in the rad the size of your fist. Used it on an old Mini a couple of months back, and was stunned with the result.

moikey

Anyone know if you can fit the chrome trim onto a Volkswagen Passat, along the sides and front, buying one this weekend and want to start sprucing it up ya know.

Like this one

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/2301680



Mine's a 2003 Comfortline.

L-M

No, it'll break your heart if you try paint them, try get them off a Passat for breaking.

moikey

Limerick man wrote: »

No, it'll break your heart if you try paint them, try get them off a Passat for breaking.

Yeah I wouldn't paint them, do they fit in instead of the plastic one that are there?

L-M

moikey wrote: »

Yeah I wouldn't paint them, do they fit in instead of the plastic one that are there?

Yup! You'd have to get them off a scrappy or Vw themselves, but I'd say they'r elike hens teeth because you're not the only one at it

moikey

Limerick man wrote: »

Yup! You'd have to get them off a scrappy or Vw themselves, but I'd say they'r elike hens teeth because you're not the only one at it

Great thanks I'll keep my eyes open so

E39MSport

Rear shocks on the Esty



Took 8er out for a maintenance run Sunday.

Bora was picked up today in UK

Gary ITR

My engine build is finally complete, it's more or less ran in now too. Had a minor hiccup with the software on the ECU but we overcame that. I had done the valve oil seals at Christmas so thought they'd be fine... turns out they weren't so put in a long day yesterday and replaced them, head off, valves out lol but sure it's all fun and games.

The car is much quicker now, my compression is 265psi across all of the cylinders, a healthy standard car is around 135psi So when I'm dropping in the high lift cams they'll definitely show a massive gain in power.

johnos1984

Spent 4 hours cleaning and waxing my car today both inside and out.

Started raining on the last polish. I never even got a chance to stand back and admire my work.

No pictures to follow as I'm too pissed off:mad:

E39MSport

johnos1984 wrote: »

Spent 4 hours cleaning and waxing my car today both inside and out.

Started raining on the last polish. I never even got a chance to stand back and admire my work.

No pictures to follow as I'm too pissed off:mad:

Right bummer that - but you'll be up for some nice beading shots in the morning

johnos1984

E39MSport wrote: »

Right bummer that - but you'll be up for some nice beading shots in the morning

Afraid not!

I was getting it ready for Ladies Day in Galway. I'm leaving Wicklow at midnight and forgot to check the weather across the country as it was so nice here

Midnight_EG

Beading you say? :pac:

My spoiler



And a mates roof

TestTransmission

EPM wrote: »

superskoda

EPM

TestTransmission wrote: »

It's a website. Get over it Honda fanboy:P