The "Today I did something to my car" thread

^^ Fair play on cleaning those seats, they look like new.

Spent a good few hours on mine tonight.

Tried out a little trick i've been meaning to give a go on my next job, the bonnet service mode. Allows you to stick the bonnet at 90 degrees giving much more room and more importantly light:

Before:


After:


Simply pull off a clip on each of the struts, lift the bonnet up and screw in two M8 bolts, very handy!


Much more light:


Anyways, job was three fold, replace all the intake boots and clamps, clean the MAF and throttle body.

Only got a pic of one section of the intake, look at the size of that hole:


...but replaced the entire assembly.

Cleaned out the air box, sprayed the MAF clean, cleaned the throttle body which was actually very clean and reassembled the whole lot.

All new:


Also clamped off a small leak in one of the power steering hoses:


Also wired up the angel eyes to the interior lights, they now come on at the same time:
(bit over exposed unfortunately):



Also went for a quick spin off a public road, she's quicker than I ever thought!
(shocking quality):


7.5 seconds, BMW say 9.3.

I don't like German/modern engine bays.
I WANT TO SEE THE TURBOS!
That and all the other bits that make broom broom.

I will, remove the plastic though!

man seen all these clean cars is making me feel dirty.

just being doing the quick wash/wax and vac lately


need a good day off to shampoo the whole inside including the roof carpet thing with a decent hoover too.

good dash,

get the headlights clean and matching (not one new and one dirty)

and when its back from car craft good wash, wax, polish etc.

that is my to do list.

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Ah cool, just was reading the ad on ebay and every single page was talking about how they don't throw errors!

One of my number plate bulbs is missing, and tbh, they look ****e as is. So hopefully it'll look alright.

Next job on my to do list is going to be rear brake disks, the pads are barely worn in, where as the disks themselves are in need of a change.

What do yee reckon, am I better off just replacing the pads anyway when doing the disks? Or will I use the current pads? They've only been on the car 6 months or so, and there's plenty left on them.

If your pads are fine just leave them...

@Alan I've half a feeling it's best practice to replace pads when doing discs as the old pads will have bedded into the old discs, not sure if they'd have any ill effects on the new ones...

Limerick man wrote: »

They throw errors on canbus wiring because they have such a low wattage that the car actually believes there is no bulb there!

Stupid canbus :pac:

A good tip is to wire in the new LED bulbs over the old ones (in parallel) to prevent any dashboard errors - the LED will overpower the old bulb for shine, lets hope there is enough room too.

advertsfox wrote: »

Limerick man wrote: »

They throw errors on canbus wiring because they have such a low wattage that the car actually believes there is no bulb there!

Stupid canbus :pac:

A good tip is to wire in the new LED bulbs over the old ones (in parallel) to prevent any dashboard errors - the LED will overpower the old bulb for shine, lets hope there is enough room too.

I dont know thats sounds messy to me. I can disable the warning, if any, using BMW tools, in less than 2mn.

I had neglected washing the car for a while so gave it a wash and coat of v7 just get rid of water spots and stuff





And ive also decided i'm going to buy a camera, the camera on this HTC is unbelievably poor

Have you removed the little protective blue sticker off the lens?