*********Motors Chat - Round 9 *********

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

Sitting in the test center, waiting to see how bad the fail will be

Men in white coats will approach you with a protection order committing you to a psych ward to save you from the impending repair bills......

If this doesn't happen then you're fine.

job seeker wrote: »

I have just no idea tbh. I first thought they may be a copy of tsw stealths?

there should be makers stamps on the rear of the alloys along with numbers for offset and widths etc:)

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

Sitting in the test center, waiting to see how bad the fail will be

FN best of luck. I assume it's the red 5 series in for the test

Very good..

best of luck anyway.

donkeyoaty0099 wrote: »

Unusual one for you lads. Have a mk6 golf TDI and when I turn on the dipped lights one (and only one) of the front fog lights sometimes comes on. I'm not fantastic with cars so I tried taking the bulbs out on both sides to "reset" the fog lights but the problem persists. Anybody any clue whats going on there? Electrically the car is fine otherwise *touches wood*.

Could be the switch. Just male sure you're not pulling it out one notch at the same time as turning the lights on.

Is your steering wheel turned the direction that the light is on?

Cool, I know some cars the fog comes on as a turning light so just ruling that out

Wow right ok it's a year today since I picked up the E36, while it's not in good health right now it was a fantastic year. Ironically the car I bought was definitely after being saved from the track...
It started out as a cheap 6cyl purchase, it looked tired and worn out. My plan was to have some fun with it but it quickly won me over.







Over the year it done 31k miles, passed its nct with little work and drank its way through a fair cut of the countries fuel!

I changed bits and pieces, got the arches rolled, done lots of poly bushing and stuff, as it headed for its role as a daily/track car. It became a weird car, everyone knew it. The wheels drew everyone in!





By the time it got to Autoheroes for its first outing it was in great condition but I never realised how fun it would be on the track. I knew how great it was on the road but with no limits and no fear you could really have fun with that chassis!

So now, as this year has finished the engine has sadly let go at Auto Heroes 2, it will spur a build thread to start this turbo conversion. It will become a pure track car from now on and hopefully will be on track some time around the summer. We're talking a cage, that 2.8 turbo and maybe some bodywork to really give it a track look

Who knows because I never seen this on this day last year

shietpilot wrote: »

It's a nice E36 that :rolleyes:

Looking forward to seeing a build thread. The HG blew only for the better :rolleyes:

Had you fixed the hydraulic lifter tick before the HG went? It will be a serious car with the 2.8, never mind the turbo

It was the fact i was running 0w40, once it cooled she was fine

Yeah i need to get going at it and i will make a thread for it!

Spotted a 151 BMW 525D today, nice car that stud out but what really stud out was the reg.. 151-D-4790CD.

What does "CD" mean at the end? It was on both the front and rear reg. When I type it into motorcheck nothing is coming up.

Guys/girls a word of warning Please look at your wheels/alloys before you drive off as someone tried to remove the alloys from my car last night, all they got were the nuts before the alarm went off. This weather brings out all sorts.

colm_mcm wrote: »

Jaysus. Did they mangle the locknuts?

Didn't mangle them, stole them. I'm lucky to even have alloys on it. I don't know why the alarm didn't go off sooner but they( thieves) were gone by the time I got outside.