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Today I did something to my car (volume 2)
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Replaced my rear discs and pads today, Textar Discs and Pads were on the back, now replaced with Pagid Discs, Pads and Wear Sensor. Got the whole lot, discs, pads, wear sensor, piston rewind tool, brake cleaner and WD40 all for about €100, who says BMW's are expensive to service :pac:
Old squeaky setup
All fresh and new
Fingers always get in the way :pac:
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Better safe than sorry, especially here in The Windy Wesht.Did you do all that masking just for the lights?
Another visual thingy, just got it from mr. postman.
Old one:
And new one:
Quite tricky, as original one was held by a number of staples. My own, home grade stapler would definately break straight away, so dug out a roll of 100mph tape off the shed and used it instead. Holds the whole thing pretty well.
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Noticed something up with the car for the past day or 2.
Had a look around and saw what looked like my tyre had become pregnant
Blessed I spotted it now.
Tyre was brand new only 3 weeks ago!!!
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Not the most exciting pics tbh and I didn't do the work either. I've spent far more money than I've wanted to on the Hondas brakes recently.
In fairness I've put just under 60,000kms on it now since I got it and the only non standard thing I've spent money on has been a coil spring that the tip of a coil had broken off.
I had an ABS warning light intermittently that I was ignoring, I was also blissfully ignoring a very soft brake pedal, then after that I started ignoring a stuck calliper until that went metal to metal so I bit the bullet.
New rear dust shield
New nearside rear ABS sensor
New rear pads and discs
New front pads and discs
New offside front calliper
New brake fluid
It's like a new car, not dragging a wheel, no noise, no lights on the dash and the pedal is rock solid. I wish I had pics of the old stuff it was real hall of shame material. The discs were red rotten, i'd say less than 50% of the contact surface was being used.
Dust shield: €35 from Honda
ABS sensor: €60 for Blueprint the cheapest I could find
Front and rear pads and discs: €165 all Delphi
Front calliper: €85 for a refurbed exchange unit
Just under €350 all done so not too bad really.
Viola!
Rears:
Fronts:
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Had the very same mod in my red 'rolla, liked it, so decided to do the same in E12.
Tutorials on the web showing permanently soldered bulbs and stuff like that.
Nah, decided to go my own route.
Here's starting point - tail light clusters and bulb holders:
Additional items - corolla E11 loom and slightly damaged light cluster:
Light cluster cut to make a template:
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Some preparations:
In addition, to avoid having shaved plastic in the cluster, decided not to go drill/file, but fire and knife instead:
Driver's side cut:
And it fits!
Passenger's side cut as well:
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And it fits too!
BTW, knife's junk now, thankfully I have replacement blades.
Time to look after bulb holders:
Now, cut and soldered:
Final result. Parking lights, parking + brake, parking + fog, parking + brake + fog.
Managed to get very similar strength of light, despite different sizes of parking vs. fog compartments - good old American bulbs (P27/8W) in parking/brake compartments and standard P21/5W in foglight compartments.
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And it fits too!
BTW, knife's junk now, thankfully I have replacement blades.
Time to look after bulb holders:
Now, cut and soldered:
Final result. Parking lights, parking + brake, parking + fog, parking + brake + fog.
Managed to get very similar strength of light, despite different sizes of parking vs. fog compartments - good old American bulbs (P27/8W) in parking/brake compartments and standard P21/5W in foglight compartments.THE END
I'm jealous of your paint! Mine has gone to **** and I'm not sure what to do about it.
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Won't be easy to find one in better condition, I'm afraid.Black_Knight wrote: »Find a red bonnet at a scrapyard imo
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Small bits and bobs to the Z
Mostly tidying up the mess I left when hunting the fueling issue!
I did also change the coolant. Need new hoses at some stage
Changed the rear pads. Fixed caliper setup, one of the pads was a bit awkward coming out otherwise it was straight forward
On a side note, I started to tear down the engine out of the other Avensis I bought. Easy spots
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My front bumper has been hanging at the front since day one. I was told it got caught on a kerb but I fear I was lied to. I removed it and was greeted with a right mess of a repair. The bumper is perfect but was put back on to the bumper bar/carrier with self tapping screws indiscriminately screwed everywhere. I undid the mess, bought the correct push rivets and set back to work. I need to buy more push rivets tomorrow and hopefully when I get it back on it will sit right. If not I will start saving for a new bumper. I want the car right so may just buy a primed genuine one from BMW in time, I can get it painted for free so it won't hurt too much. I fitted new splash guards as the old ones were in bits. If anyone has a AVUS m sport bumper in very good nick I would love a PM0
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