The "Today I did something to my car" thread

Owen

Owen wrote: »

I got bored. Should have been cleaning the house, but instead decided to refurb a wheel on my ex's car who was down visiting. Refurbed by a main UK BMW Dealer, and about 3 months later, all the paint flaked off. The best bit about doing it? I got to drink nice cold beer all the way through. Mmmmm. Beeeeer.

Did you drive the car on the Accelera tires? What do you think of them?

Owen

They're alright. Not great, not crap, noisy - but anything with a V shaped pattern on the treads seems to be noisy. They were a little skittish in the wet at the recommended PSI, dropped the fronts to 28, and the rears to 24 and the car's very stable in the wet now.

Getting some new rubber for the Smart this coming week. She needs rears, which are 205/45/16's, the fronts are different sizes though, something like a 175/55/16 - can't remember off the top of my head. Although, at the moment she steps out all the time in the wet which is so much fun I'd nearly put off new tires for a while if I really didn't have to get some

I have Accelera Phi on the ZT, they were on the 520i I had too, I find them quite good really. In the wet they can come unstuck on a roundabout if pressed but in a straight line they are fine even when slammed on. I'd get them again.

Owen

Inexpensive too - the set cost something like 330 ish fitted and balanced. Was well impressed at the time with that.

challengemaster

Spent about an hour earlier trying to get the old fcuking adhesive off the car that was used to stick the old numberplates on, then stuck the new ones on

vectra

Son de-badged the back of the Toledo,
Stuck a set of JOM coilovers on it then.

L-M

JOM coilovers are a great job!

TestTransmission

vectra wrote: »

Son de-badged the back of the Toledo,
Stuck a set of JOM coilovers on it then.

And you didn't take a pic?

vectra

TestTransmission wrote: »

And you didn't take a pic?

When the rain stops will post before and after

Gary ITR

The Civic gone?

vectra

Gary ITR wrote: »

The Civic gone?

Yes

redsteveireland

Crashed it. Well, got crashed into. Probably headed for the big scrapyard in the sky.:mad::(

frozenbanana

Hit a bad pothole

On Friday I was driving through one of the industrial estates in Ballymount, behind Red Cow hotel, and suddenly my Passat went down and up so much I hit the roof with my head, I also heard a loud bang. Stopped and had a look. There was a hole, or rather a ditch, going throught the whole width of the road, must have been at least 20 cm dep, no exageration. On my car there was a mark around the reg, so i figured this is what i hit it with. Apart from that car driving normal, no warning lights. Got home (about 15 miles)

Following day I was going to work, got on M50, drove maybe 3-4 miles when suddenly i heard a rattling noise, and a lot of smoke came from the engine and ehaust.

One of the towing guys (had to get two because ins company wouldn't tow me from m50) had a proper look underneath - and there it was, a big hole in the oil pump ( i think, something to do with oil anyway), he even pulled out a broken part. All oil leaked out.

So a mechanic will have a look at it tomorow, but somehoew i don't think it'l be worth fixing. Ah well.

L-M

Today I brought out a bit of paper to suss out what the Golf would need for the nct...

I bought an Indian instead...

(Although to be fair to it, I'd say bar fixing the ABS and airbag light that I broke myself, it'll pass no bother)

Dupont

sprayed my wheels because there were in a bad state here is before and after pics http

MetzgerMeister

Limerick man wrote: »

Today I brought out a bit of paper to suss out what the Golf would need for the nct...

I bought an Indian instead...

(Although to be fair to it, I'd say bar fixing the ABS and airbag light that I broke myself, it'll pass no bother)

Tata Nano???

L-M

einheisserschre wrote: »

Tata Nano???

Murg Huessani (sp) which is a mildly spicey one...

Turned out I got a Murg Nizzami which is "hot n spicy"...

Toilet roll is in the fridge

choons

Rigged myself up a nice auxiliary socket for my Ipod today!

I've a 97 Polo with the radio from a random early 90's SEAT so it was quite complicated. Some soldering and lots of re-wiring. Very proud of myself

Hal1

Just hope you don't find a heap of melted wires where your radio is in the morning.

vectra

TestTransmission wrote: »

And you didn't take a pic?

Here you go
Pics taken with phone so not great quality

First off
Standard height



On Coilovers




Badged



De-badged




And a couple of reflection shots after spending some time with a DA on it.
Still not 100% happy with it, I may wet sand the whole car and Polish again

L-M

Looks good! All the little bits

MetzgerMeister

Couldn't help getting the vRS in there?? haha

Hal1

Holy sh|t the shine of it. I'd be well happy acheiving half that. Good result.

vectra

einheisserschre wrote: »

Couldn't help getting the vRS in there?? haha

LOL.
It is always lurking in the background ,,Ha

vectra

vectra wrote: »

...De-badged

Did you hair dryer them off?
There's a faded Union Jack on the back of the ZT that could do with coming off.

L-M

RoverJames wrote: »

Did you hair dryer them off?
There's a faded Union Jack on the back of the ZT that could do with coming off.

Hairdryer - Tooth floss - then remove any remaining crap with your finger/petrol. Then compound.

Thank you muchly

MetzgerMeister

Just ordered stuff from detailer.ie to save myself a bundle on what I usually buy locally for valeting cars.

Hurry up and ship it Andy!!

EPM

Two new shocks fitted on the front to replace the faulty ones, light adjustment sensors fixed and it all didn't cost me a penny:D

MetzgerMeister

EPM wrote: »

Two new shocks fitted on the front to replace the faulty ones, light adjustment sensors fixed and it all didn't cost me a penny:D

Did you buy the Alfa yet?

EPM

einheisserschre wrote: »

Did you buy the Alfa yet?

There's nicer ones out there. Just not for sale:(

Hal1

Just took delivery of some recon'd calipers for my focus. I orderd them from bigredd and the look brand new. They were sliver electro plated and cost the same as I would have paid here. I will be fitting them when I recieve my brake hoses (they got lost in the post).

MetzgerMeister

Hal1 wrote: »

Just took delivery of some recon'd calipers for my focus. I orderd them from bigredd and the look brand new. They were sliver electro plated and cost the same as I would have paid here. I will be fitting them when I recieve my brake hoses (they got lost in the post).

Any chance of a link to that site?

challengemaster

einheisserschre wrote: »

Any chance of a link to that site?

Here ya go

Hal1

Here's the link to his ebay shop though, link . Next day delivery, I missed the courier he arrived before 9am so got them today. A great service though.

MetzgerMeister

challengemaster wrote: »

Here ya go

Ya spelt it wrong ya clown!! I copied and pasted what you typed in your post and it didn't bring up anything like that!

challengemaster

einheisserschre wrote: »

Ya spelt it wrong ya clown!! I copied and pasted what you typed in your post and it didn't bring up anything like that!

Funny, that, I just copied and pasted what Hal1 had in his post :pac:

MetzgerMeister

challengemaster wrote: »

Funny, that, I just copied and pasted what Hal1 had in his post :pac:

Sh!te

Apologies Hal!

Marty McFly

Today I cleaned ever last inch of my car, using Autoglym HD wax and AutoGlym HD Cleanser for the first time.















Also changed the break pads today (well my friend did i helped when I could). Thinking of lowering it aswell what do people think?

MetzgerMeister

luvbulmers01 wrote: »

Today I cleaned ever last inch of my car, using Autoglym HD wax and AutoGlym HD Cleanser for the first time.

WOW :eek: Great job mate! I'd say the paintwork is like silky glass to touch!

Re lowering it...yes, I would if I were you. I'll be lowering the MPS using Eibachs when I can afford it! It makes it look a hell of a lot better and sharpens up the handling. No reason why the same shouldn't apply to yours

vectra

luvbulmers01 wrote: »

Today I cleaned ever last inch of my car, using Autoglym HD wax and AutoGlym HD Cleanser for the first time.

Looks like you did a damn good job.
Well worth it I say.

challengemaster

I assume you didn't get lost this time either? :pac:

Voodoomelon

Nearly had a fit yesterday, passed through the Drive Thru in McDonalds in Dundalk where they were spray painting the sills of the roof. Only to park up 10 minutes later and spot this:







:mad::mad:

With a combination of turpentine and tar remover, it came off after a few minutes thank the lord. Autoglym resin polish finished it nicely.

challengemaster

You got lucky there (or should I say, Mcdonalds did?) - I'd imagine if it didn't come off you'd be chasing them for fixing it...

Voodoomelon

This is it. Nearly freaked when i started wiping the paint the first time and it wouldn't lift a single bit of it. Just had to saturate the cloth and passing forward and back it started to break down.

The Drive Thru shouldn't have been open if it wasn't fit to handle cars safely. God only knows how many other people were got, and much worse, I was only there for 20 seconds getting coffee.

mondeo

Voodoomelon wrote: »

This is it. Nearly freaked when i started wiping the paint the first time and it wouldn't lift a single bit of it. Just had to saturate the cloth and passing forward and back it started to break down.

The Drive Thru shouldn't have been open if it wasn't fit to handle cars safely. God only knows how many other people were got, and much worse, I was only there for 20 seconds getting coffee.

I'd be p!ssed! I know I would put my b!tch cap on and march in there with an evil face :mad:

Everytime I go through the drive thru's just to get coffee the girls serving always quiz me on why dont i just go in and get it at the counter being such a small thing .

Voodoomelon

Ha ha, the lads in Dundalk are grand, seems to be a common enough thing. Its handy as hell being able to fly in and out with out having to find parking.

L-M

mondeo wrote: »

I'd be p!ssed! I know I would put my b!tch cap on and march in there with an evil face :mad:

Everytime I go through the drive thru's just to get coffee the girls serving always quiz me on why dont i just go in and get it at the counter being such a small thing .

You should tell them the next time you have no legs and the car is driven by buttons. Should shut them up!

bennyx_o

Got up early this morning and washed the car May give it another coat of wax in a few minutes

vectra

bennyx_o wrote: »

Got up early this morning and washed the car May give it another coat of wax in a few minutes

You are not living in Cork obviously..
Drizzling here with 2 days non stop :mad: