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Today I did something to my car (volume 2)
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dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »The pollen filter on the cmax is such a pain to get out, I pulled it out and never bothered with it again.
Handy out in the Octavia. 2 hand screws under the passenger footwell, a little clip and it's out.
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dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »More the other way round, if the filter is blocked, you won't see much out the windows.
Thats what I meant
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Two quick fixes today on the Punto.
1) You could open the bonnet only if you "lifted" it up first. Otherwise it made no sound and did nothing. Discovered these rubber things which I twisted to get them higher and now it opens and closes properly.
2) And this. Before:
After:
Also, after replacing headlights, tail lights, bulbs in the headlights, w5w bulbs in the wings and briefly cleaning the tail light connections the indicators still blink quicker than they should. It's quite annoying. Would the NCT say anything about this?0 -
dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »OK, to make NCT man happy, I had to put new splash guards in behind the rear brake discs. Of course these things never go according to plan.
One bolt stripped it's head as I was undoing it and what followed was 4 or 5 hours solid of crawling underneat, drilling the bolt, crawling out when I couldn't hold the drill anymore (lousy Lidl drillbits, wouldn't cut through a block of butter), bashing it from the other side, hoping it'll bend or snap, going at it with a crowbar (which actually broke a tooth), hammering in screwdrivers (also a name for F1 groupies) to create a gap and finally managing to slip in a hacksaw blade and slowly cutting the bolt over half an hour.
The exact same sh*t that happened last time, basically.
Once everything was out, I noticed that the discs (orignal) were in absolute sh*t and had to be replaced, as well as the pads.
That was annoying, because were it not for the fact that only one single pad had worn to the metal and the others were still 50%, I could have gotten away with it.
And a wheelbearing is already grumbling, but it was not in the budget this time, so I am already looking forward to doing all this sh*t again within the next 6 months or so. :mad:
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As it was
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All new and shiny
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Seriously, I don't know what they mean, rusty. There's barely a mark on it, I can't tell which one's which!
Quoting myself, but just back from the NCT, passed without a further problem.
And because I managed to pass before October, I got a cert for 2 years from today, instead of a 1 year cert from January.
So no more worries until September 2017, when I probably won't be owning it anymore, because I don''t know how far past 500k km the engine and gearbox will go. Or I will still own it by then and it will be in the paper as a million mile machine.
bmstuff, that is one tidy engine bay, I'd eat my dinner off that, but I'm sure you wouldn't allow that!
Also, not eating your dinner out of the engine bay being one of the secrets of keeping it clean.0 -
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dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »Quoting myself, but just back from the NCT, passed without a further problem.
And because I managed to pass before October, I got a cert for 2 years from today, instead of a 1 year cert from January.
So no more worries until September 2017, when I probably won't be owning it anymore, because I don''t know how far past 500k km the engine and gearbox will go. Or I will still own it by then and it will be in the paper as a million mile machine.
Nice one. I left through the other exit today because I had to get petrol in the topaz prefab so didn't see your car.0 -
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Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »Why did they put in an auxillary one? Are the main ones that prone to failure?
Aux. water pumps in BMWs are a joke, they fail all day long. It turns on and off as required when the main water pump isn't turning fast enough or when the cabin demands more hot coolant in the heating matrix. It also allows higher spec models to operate cabin heating with the engine switched off.
Anyways, did some work myself today, brake fluid replacement was due this week according to the schedule so got the good aul Eezibleed kit out.
Biggest part of this job is getting the wheels on and off, a ramp is definitely on the cards:
Gave the wheels a good cleaning whilst I had them off:
Before starting I also wanted to sort the colour of the brake discs, they'd become rusted and nasty looking:
Three coats of silver alloy paint and they look much better:
On to the bleeding, this came out of the resevoir:
Using the spare as the air source for the brake bleed kit:
Rear:
Front:
All done, 1 litre of nasty fluid:
Wheels look like new now:
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MetzgerMeister wrote: »Nothing easy about replacing discs when they have a seized locating screw :mad:
I must be one of the few who never had this issue (with discs anyway).
Although I spent a tenner in Lidl on the best thing ever to sort out seized nuts/bolts. Works 99% of the time 0
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