The "Today I did something to my car" thread

dgt

dgt wrote: »

Have you found a replacement yet

Possibly, not quite sure though.

hoodie6029

Got the dents knocked out of my wing. Very pleased with the results.
Before

After

Ardennes1944

RoverJames wrote: »

Took advantage of the weather (not p1ssing rain), changed the oil, only used a Halfords oil filter, wasn't arsed getting a genuine one this time, her days are numbered with me

I saw no such activities going on

Ardennes1944

Ardennes1944 wrote: »

I saw no such activities going on

You get up too early

Upgraded the radio in my 20 year old Corolla - I can now play CDs! And items through an Aux port and USB.

Toyotafanboi

got a new passenger for valentines day from ms. fanboi

CianRyan

Domo!
My girlfriend made me a Totoro that I always mean to bring out to my car.

pissednbroke

Serviced the missus' mini one and same for my mothers focus.

Have to change the rear pads on my sisters A4 next week after the removal tool arrived this morning!

dgt

Time for a bit of time on my much neglected van....


The interior was annoying me!


Thank feck for leather!


There's a piece of trim missing under the scuttle panel I never bothered putting in.... Hence why I see pools in the footwell now and again :mad: I've bodgefied a 406 fusebox cover in there for now


There was no power going to the pump. I'll change the pump so!


A bit of wrigglin'....


This one works, which is significantly older than the one I took out!


Put it in with the rubber ring on the pump not the tank or it will never go in :pac:

If one forgets to put the ring in, turn the pump and it will slide right in there


And that didn't solve that, still refused to pump! Think I'll run a separate switched feed to it in due time

Oh and cleaned the 406


It shines up well :cool:

Voodoomelon

bmstuff wrote: »

Testing a new digital tv tuner...a bit of panic at the end, was trying to get rid of the sound/picture lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3OIreYN2mQ

That looks great, any pics of the setup and prices of hardware?

Toyotafanboi

406 looks smashing! usually hate yellow fogs on everything but the colour contrast works lovely.

MetzgerMeister

dgt - is that mould on the fiat's steering wheel and gearknob????

Toyotafanboi

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

dgt - is that mould on the fiat's steering wheel and gearknob????

yup, have you never been to a scrap yard :pac:

dgt

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

dgt - is that mould on the fiat's steering wheel and gearknob????

Yes :eek: and on the dash, seats, console, roof.... Everywhere! That ain't a Fiat wheel or gearknob btw :pac:

I'll be tearing it all out in due time....

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

yup, have you never been to a scrap yard :pac:

I think it's just a poor design! A lot end up furry :mad:

Ded_Zebra

I think it's mould alright.

Judging by the look of that interior the magic tree isn't doing much :pac:

renofan

Had an enjoyable day today. Put on two new wishbones, (with new rubbers and balljoints), and replaced the front pads too.

1st of all lubed everything up



then the ball joint nut decided it wouldn't go any higher than this and started spinning the ball joint too. See the massive room around the balljoint nut!!



so took a hacksaw to it




The balljoint itsself was a ba$tard to get out but it came eventually

Old verses new



New one on



Same the other side but the ba$stard of a balljoint nut wouldn't even open so ended up rounding the nut so had to hacksaw through the nut and bolt that side!




Then decided to do the pads as the ones on it were a bit worn



All new and shiny (same the other side!)



These were the first items to be replaced on the car. Its a '98 and everything up till today was original so was good going for the pads!

Pretty clean under here



Oh and for RoverJames.....it was a gorgeous day here!

bmstuff

Voodoomelon wrote: »

That looks great, any pics of the setup and prices of hardware?

Coming up soon, I am testing a few solutions at the moment, as I only sell stuff that I like, are reliable and of good quality.

Dord

I fixed the boot lock on my car using my mind! :pac: Either that or it decided to fix itself.

It wouldn't lock with the rest of the doors so I had to do it manually with the key. Roll on today... I heard the clunk from the back when I locked it with the fob, and when I checked several times it seems fine now. Thank fck! I didn't fancy trying to fix it.

In other news I washed the car, and started work on tidying up the exterior paint & plastic. Will do some more this week that may be worthy of pictures.

vectra

Drove to Souhans exhausts in Trim Co. Meath today and got a 2.5" Stainless Cat-Back system with single Magnaflow Performance silencer and stainless outlet.
Nice job. Sounds a bit better as well :P

Supergurrier

vectra wrote: »

Drove to Souhans exhausts in Trim Co. Meath today and got a 2.5" Stainless Cat-Back system with single Magnaflow Performance silencer and stainless outlet.
Nice job. Sounds a bit better as well :P

They expensive ? also 2.5inch seems abit weeny would have thought the VRS was 3 inch atleast

vectra

Supergurrier wrote: »

They expensive ? also 2.5inch seems abit weeny would have thought the VRS was 3 inch atleast

2.5" standard on it.
No point in going 3" unless donig de-cat and 3" downpipe.

OE exhaust from dealer was €270

Souhans for S/Steel and performance back box with s/Steel tip fitted for same price.. Real neat job as well.

conzy

giggity :pac:

Washed, tardis, D/A with menzerna heavy cut polish then menzerna finishing polish, AutoGlym SRP, Blacklight and two coats of AutoGlym HD Wax

Ardennes1944

30e for tardis:eek: anywhere to buy smaller amount than cleancar?

conzy

Ardennes1944 wrote: »

30e for tardis:eek: anywhere to buy smaller amount than cleancar?

Yeah thats for a gallon which would do 10 cars or more. Its great stuff!

I have heard good stuff about tar cleanse too which can be gotten here for €13.95 for 500ml

colm_mcm

Touched up stone chips on the nose of the civic today. Might get the bonnet resprayed, it attracts stones so easily

bmstuff

Did a quick job on my car today to run a digital TV demo for 2 customers.
Just need to tidy up a bit, extend the USB plug back to the glove box...

Thanks for looking

bmstuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM8Q5X7OtBs

MuppetCheck

colm_mcm wrote: »

Touched up stone chips on the nose of the civic today. Might get the bonnet resprayed, it attracts stones so easily

Jap paint and dark colours:(

conzy

That TV install looks like serious hardship! What kind of money is the system?

dgt

bmstuff that is fantastic stuff! That's given me an idea for the ICS in my car

For now it's boot carpets...


Looks much better


Oh dear, I've started again....

bmstuff

conzy wrote: »

That TV install looks like serious hardship! What kind of money is the system?

It takes a bit of effort to make a clean install, antennas fully hidden, hook properly into existing radio harness etc.

I charge 190 for a supplied and fitted system in a car that has an aftermarket double din screen like on mine with the unit on the front.

For cars with OEM satnav it is more complex as often modules are in the boot and you need to have converters plugged into the OEM system to provide actual RCA input plugs. Plus the remote control sensor needs to be extended from the boot to the dash, which is quiet involved as you can imagine (trim + carpet removal).

For a BMW e39, e46, e38, e53 equipped with satnav and analog TV from factory (or retrofitted), I charge 280 supplied and fitted and TV in motion enabled, for example.

Other modern cars with MOST interface (fibre optic) it can get pricey pretty quickly, unless you hook this up directly on the back of the OEM screen, which is not always possible (or straight forward).

Redisle

dgt wrote: »

bmstuff that is fantastic stuff! That's given me an idea for the ICS in my car
...

Ha, can we assume that you are not in fact carrying around spare toner and that the box is full of random car parts!? :pac:

dgt

Redisle wrote: »

Ha, can we assume that you are not in fact carrying around spare toner and that the box is full of random car parts!? :pac:

Spare toner for extra soot FTW!!!!!

I used to use a 38a in the other car, the 42a is slightly bigger! It houses my x amount of bits tool set, meguairs brush, spare diesel filter and.... Other stuff :pac:

I'm too cheap to buy a plastic box from lidl :P

dr.fuzzenstein

dgt wrote: »

Spare toner for extra soot FTW!!!!!

I used to use a 38a in the other car, the 42a is slightly bigger! It houses my x amount of bits tool set, meguairs brush, spare diesel filter and.... Other stuff :pac:

I'm too cheap to buy a plastic box from lidl :P

And you can't go wrong with those printers! You can tell it to ignore the chip on the cartridge and it keeps printing away forever.
I used to run 2000 page print tests on 4200 and 4250's, that is per sample of toner and there where at least 5 samples per production run. There would be a production run every 2-3 weeks. That was when I was in the knock-off toner business. The bad old days.
I must have put 20k pages on one cartridge alone.
I have seen other printers, mostly Brother and Lexmark and we had a few Samsungs and whilst your page per gram (printer equivalent of mpg:D) is lousy on HP's (think of them of 1960's American V8 muscle cars compared to a modern car), they never break down, never give you hassle chipwise (as with cars, older ones will be less complicated and prone to failure) last forever and will print page volumes (like over the life of the printer) that other printers can only dream about.
Only Kyoceras come close. And I didn't like their print quality too much on some of them.
And I just realise that I'm on a car forum, but I've written it now, so there!;)

dgt

Like printer like box, pretty damn good :cool:

sebastianlieken

I took apart the whole dashboard and centre console over the weekend in an attempt to find and put an end to the weird creaking noise that's been hiding under there for the past few months.

Drove in today.... not a whisper from it. *yet*

Oh god i hope it stays away. A creak in the dashbopard is so bloody annoying!

CianRyan

Hoovered, decluttered and generally cleaned my interior and then had a look at the speakers again.
The original back speakers are now working again, that means I'm only down to one broken original speaker!

Must have a look about getting those door cards off and sorting that last one.

Neilw

Stripped it ready for paint

Voodoomelon

Finally got some OEM wiper blades, a snip at €67.

The silence is bliss though.

Nissan doctor

I picked up this over Christmas so though I'd see if its any good..



The good headlight, which is actually the vans original light.



And the dull/yellowed one(which is not original, must have been replaced with a second hand one from an older Astra) It actually doesn't look as bad in the pics.



A bit of elbo grease:



And it works well, not back to brand new but certainly a big improvement:

okane1

Taxed the car for 12 months, a mighty high €951 :eek:

Supergurrier

Nice often worndered about this stuff myself the side repeaters on the mirrors on my yoke are all gunked up after the winter

colm_mcm

Got the Bosch wipers for the civic today

€45 :eek:

CianRyan

I've been putting off getting wipers since I bought my car...
My window is full of smears.

tossy

Neilw wrote: »

Stripped it ready for paint

Good work Neil.You stopped short of the rear and side windows?

MetzgerMeister

tossy wrote: »

Good work Neil.You stopped short of the rear and side windows?

Jaysus nothing gets past you huh??? :pac: :P

tossy

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Jaysus nothing gets past you huh??? :pac: :P

Only noticed because we had a long chat the other day about some of the preferred methods of removing them

eringobragh

colm_mcm wrote: »

Got the Bosch wipers for the civic today

€45 :eek:

FFS why were they so expensive?

166man

CianRyan wrote: »

I've been putting off getting wipers since I bought my car...
My window is full of smears.

Dude, order a set on Micksgarage for about €16, fit them yourself and it's job done. Seriously it rains so much here so you'll thank yourself each and everytime you use them.

dgt

CianRyan wrote: »

I've been putting off getting wipers since I bought my car...
My window is full of smears.

Change them asap and try not to further the damage to the screen!!! :eek::eek::eek: