The "Today I did something to my car" thread

EPM

Nissan doctor wrote: »

Chevrolet Nubira towed in with broken timing belt....customer was given the car by an elderly relative and didn't want to spend the money to repair the damage and decided to scrap it......I saved it from being scrapped:D

So you're openly admitting to saving a Nubira?

Think carefully about your response.

Nissan doctor

EPM wrote: »

So you're openly admitting to saving a Nubira?

Think carefully about your response.

I'm openly admitting to getting something I can repair and sell for a wee profit;)

-Corkie-

EPM wrote: »

So you're openly admitting to saving a Nubira?

Think carefully about your response.

I would just ban him and be done with it..

EPM

Nissan doctor wrote: »

I'm openly admitting to getting something I can repair and sell for a wee profit;)

So now you're saying you'd take money to preserve it?

This isn't looking good.

Nissan doctor

EPM wrote: »

So now you're saying you'd take money to preserve it?

This isn't looking good.

Ah feck it...if it puts some money in my pocket I don't mind what badge is on it.

Anyway....its a Chevrolet....Just like a Corvette!:P

dgt

Nissan doctor wrote: »

Ah feck it...if it puts some money in my pocket I don't mind what badge is on it.

Anyway....its a Chevrolet....Just like a Corvette!:P

That's one chevvy I'd throw in the levy...











*Get's coat, time for my late night walk anyway

Fiona

Nissan doctor wrote: »

Chevrolet Nubira towed in with broken timing belt....customer was given the car by an elderly relative and didn't want to spend the money to repair the damage and decided to scrap it......I saved it from being scrapped:D

Your a vulture!

Gary ITR

Wait, I get whats going on. Every Monday the wife gives him his lunch money for the week, if he flogs the Nubira at a profit he'll have some money to buy sweets without the wife knowing. Well played sir, well played

Fiona

Gary ITR wrote: »

Wait, I get whats going on. Every Monday the wife gives him his lunch money for the week, if he flogs the Nubira at a profit he'll have some money to buy sweets without the wife knowing. Well played sir, well played

Ill be wary of getting me banger towed into his garage ever again! www.newmechanic.ie

EPM

The Skylon Hotel is next door. Get it towed there:p

Nissan doctor

mrs crilly wrote: »

Ill be wary of getting me banger towed into his garage ever again! www.newmechanic.ie

I'd rather have a chevrolet then a BMW anyway:P:eek:

Fiona

Nissan doctor wrote: »

I'd rather have a chevrolet then a BMW anyway:P:eek:

WE ARE SO OVER! :eek:

colm_mcm

dgt wrote: »

146 Handbrake

Marea centre console too I see. Did the same mod myself back in the day.

i didn't give you some parts (alloys or something) years back in Naas did I?

MugMugs

Nissan doctor wrote: »

flyingsnail wrote: »

do tell

Chevrolet Nubira towed in with broken timing belt....customer was given the car by an elderly relative and didn't want to spend the money to repair the damage and decided to scrap it......I saved it from being scrapped:D

You're getting a name of a GM fan dude! Nasty!

dgt

colm_mcm wrote: »

Marea centre console too I see. Did the same mod myself back in the day.

i didn't give you some parts (alloys or something) years back in Naas did I?

With electric mirrors :cool: (£44 for that banana switch!) Leathered it myself to match the seats, only to find its a different shade! :rolleyes:

Narp, not me. Most bits I got were from cars brought in here for dismantling

You had a Brava, yes?

colm_mcm

Yeah, ages ago.

My mechanical skills have been blunted a bit since i gave up Italian cars

Nissan doctor

MugMugs wrote: »

You're getting a name of a GM fan dude! Nasty!

No fear of a user name change soon don't worry.:D

vectra

dgt wrote: »

You sir have some pair of eyes

They are indeed from an Alfa 147, shoehorned to fit

The Alfa stuff doesn't stop there mind you...

I also have a 146 rear disc setup (with copper lines and a very stiff arb)


Expect to see some bits of a 166 in there someday (not my one obviously!) :pac:

Some very nice mods there bud.. Keep it up.

kearney13

I have my van about 2 months now and never had the time to do any engine work with it so far, anyway gave it look over and it was all bad news, 12 year old van still had its original timing belt :O and water pump, fuel filter rusted to the point there was gonna be a hole in it and power steering belt ready to snap.

Anyway yesterday with help I tackled the van and replaced everything and my god is it a different van

I have to change the pedal box today have it ready to go into it so I hope it wont take too long

E39MSport

Rebuild a siezed caliper after new Pads on the Esty.

Took it out for a spin to find I had done the wrong side :rolleyes: (despite burning my finger on the disc when checking).


.... rebuilt both front calipers on the Esty

Think I know what the squeeking is now. May have burned off the bearing or CV grease with the red hot disc....

(aslo did n/s outer steering arm on bro's W211)


Going out this morning to wash the M5 and make a paint thickness map. Looks like it has been buffed already. Hope there's scope for some more. Few scratches I want to flatten out.

MetzgerMeister

We had a full days work yesterday!

I washed and dry-waxed my car, we washed CM's engine bay, fixed a clunk in my car which turned out to be a missing bolt on the anti roll bar thanks to my mechanic not putting it back when I got the OEM springs put back in :mad:

I used my G-Techniq trim restorer on CM's wing mirrors and it brought them from a gre/white back to a lovely, smooth, black factory finish. I'm well pleased with that purchase!

We then gave CM's headlights a refurb while conzymaher ripped out every piece of trim from his car and CM's car.

After all that, CM then took pictures of my car in the dark using long exposure while he danced around the garden with a flashlight

I now have conzenons

robbie_998

Brought my car to the doc yesturday as I think I may have being a bit paranoid about a noise in the engine.

Said there was a bit of a noise but nothing to worry about so I'm happy

He also thightend the nuts on my wheels as they were loose after me fixing them twice when I put the road wheels back on as I do t expect winter anymore. Can't explain why they kept coming lose.

I'm such a pleb.

But thanks to the doc for being great.

Or should I say Astra man ! :pac:

colm_mcm

dgt wrote: »

146 skirts to fit someday (maybe you spotted the wings too? )


:pac:

Yeah, spotted those, are they from a marea or hgt?
I always liked the big bumper marea front end with the projector headlamps, always said if I crashed my old brava badly enough, I'd get them to bolt those parts on instead!

Ardennes1944

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

We had a full days work yesterday!

I washed and dry-waxed my car, we washed CM's engine bay, fixed a clunk in my car which turned out to be a missing bolt on the anti roll bar thanks to my mechanic not putting it back when I got the OEM springs put back in :mad:

I used my G-Techniq trim restorer on CM's wing mirrors and it brought them from a gre/white back to a lovely, smooth, black factory finish. I'm well pleased with that purchase!

We then gave CM's headlights a refurb while conzymaher ripped out every piece of trim from his car and CM's car.

After all that, CM then took pictures of my car in the dark using long exposure while he danced around the garden with a flashlight

I now have conzenons

what about mine ya langer?

colm_mcm

Just wondering, who's CM?

vectra

colm_mcm wrote: »

Just wondering, who's CM?

Was wondering that myself

Ardennes1944

Challengedmaster aka...his bumbum cleaning buddy

MetzgerMeister

Ardennes1944 wrote: »

what about mine ya langer?

What about yours ya langer??

Ardennes1944 wrote: »

Challengedmaster aka...his bumbum cleaning buddy

Jealous? :P

Ardennes1944

yeah i want my bum cleaned too

MetzgerMeister

Ardennes1944 wrote: »

yeah i want my bum cleaned too

I'm afriad Rusty backbox Repairs are gone into liquidation :pac:

eringobragh

Went to change a bulb on the 2, read I have to remove the lamp itself and some panels...had visions it was going to be like the time I had to change a bulb on a mates megane! Thankfully its pretty straight forward...takes about 5 minutes per side at a steady pace..

1 Bulb down [keeping up with 30% of motorists :P]



H4 bulb kit - 6.50 from Aldi



Safety First Remove the 30A RTR fuse from the front fuse box (controls the headlight motors)

Remove the plastic case (4 screws), and chrome HL surround (4 scrws)





Thethered screws on all thefront headlight fittings (Just thought it was a nice touch!)



Changed the both headlights (new bulb was alot brighter)




.........think its time to take a spin with the T-Bar glass out with the weather were having today!

TestTransmission

Today i took a photo.Yesterday was spent washing, claying, glazing and waxing the car.:D

Also took the hardtop off for the first time this year.Pretty happy with the results of yesterdays efforts.

-Corkie-

Nice job dude. If only the writing in the parking spot was TT as opposed to TL..:D

TestTransmission

-Corkie- wrote: »

If only the writing in the parking spot was TT as opposed to TL..:D

The TT owners might have something to say about that then.

vectra

Nice job TT
Looking good.

dgt

colm_mcm wrote: »

Yeah, spotted those, are they from a marea or hgt?
I always liked the big bumper marea front end with the projector headlamps, always said if I crashed my old brava badly enough, I'd get them to bolt those parts on instead!

From a petrol Marea have been looking for a diesel front for ages! Projectors were easy to wire up

Got them originally as I made bits of my bumper on my old car after running over a hare... Standard wings were rotten and beat in! So I changed the whole lot When I got the blue Bravo, the wings were punched in and rusty too. Conveniently, the bumper was taken off :pac: Once resprayed, fitted perfect

As for today, got the 166 and the Polo cleaned up

colm_mcm

The marea diesel bumper is the same as the 20v petrol right?

Stealthirl

So picked up a second hand set of wheels and tires for the octavia and after cleaning them up a bit i then cleaning the car

sun went in just after i finished







Slightly wide on the front





Think the rears are ok


next up is a call to Traynors for a few bits to fix inside

dgt

colm_mcm wrote: »

The marea diesel bumper is the same as the 20v petrol right?

Yes the same bumper :rolleyes: diesel bumper has ducts for the intercooler and oil cooler, I don't think the 20v had an oil cooler (open to corrections)

There was an alternative diesel bumper I don't think we got that in Ireland...

jenizzle

Engine, gear and diff oil changed in the RX8 yesterday - I did a fantastic job of standing about, handing over various socket wrenches and biscuit tins for oil-gathering

This week I shall be mostly trying to figure out how to change a sidelight bulb without dislocating my wrist :rolleyes:

JerCotter7

Put the dash back in today only to realize it has to come back out to fix a leak that is still in the firewall :mad:

Anyway the picture on the left is what my car looked like when I bought it(not my car, taken from bimmerforums)


All my work was for this


Here is what it looks like in the dark without the steering wheel connected


And here is the leather re-dye


Left half is done.

I'll have more pictures to show next weekend hopefully

EDIT: No idea how to scale images. Look fine to me on 1080p but not sure about lower resolutions.

Ardennes1944

Love the e36 facelift centre console. How much did it cost you?

JerCotter7

Ardennes1944 wrote: »

Love the e36 facelift centre console. How much did it cost you?

The radio was €200. Could have got a rover one for €150 but it has slightly different text and a rover logo:o

The OBC retrofit cost €100 and took ages since I wired everything under the carpet and taped it up with fabric tape.

You can see it on the floor at the left. It goes into the carpet and comes out at the front near the big hole :P All soldered and heat shrunk as well except for one wire out to the speed sensor. Will do that next week.

And the digital climate control was free since my couse has a parts E36 and it was too much work for him to do it

The steering wheel cost €250 because I bought an E39 steering wheel for the buttons and an E36 M-Tech wheel because it's smaller and fits better and the slip ring was seperate.

The cruise control retrofit cost €120 originally since it was on the stalks but I am moving it to steering wheel so I had to buy an E46 cruise module which is gonna cost €30.

Sounds bad when I type all the numbers...

eringobragh

^ Nice work!

eringobragh

eringobragh wrote: »

Went to change a bulb on the 2, read I have to remove the lamp itself and some panels................

Same lamp as in Hiace vans iirc :eek:
Nice lamps there boss :pac:

eringobragh

RoverJames wrote: »

Same lamp as in Hiace vans iirc :eek:
Nice lamps there boss :pac:

How dare you...I challenge you to a bare-knuckle boxing match at the next motors meet...till the death

challengemaster

eringobragh wrote: »

How dare you...I challenge you to a bare-knuckle boxing match at the next motors meet...till the death

Yer no good boss! :pac:

eringobragh

challengemaster wrote: »

Yer no good boss! :pac:

I'm working on it..I've only just found out I've a traveller spec MR2

Ardennes1944

Worth the work jer. That interior is very,very nice. Not many e36s have it either! Any pics of the car itself?

JerCotter7

Ardennes1944 wrote: »

Worth the work jer. That interior is very,very nice. Not many e36s have it either! Any pics of the car itself?

Worth the work to me :P Not worth it to sell it. I just ordered a dice media bridge so gonna pop out one of the blanking plates in the middle and make a USB/AUX input there. Gonna try have them lit as well.

Then install the Harmon Kardon sound system next weekend and put the Hifi switch in beside that.

And then heated seats with the original switches. Basically I want everything the car can take

Picture from the day I bought it


Newest one I have. Missing trim is now on it and number plate in the right spot. And fog lights in.


Was thinking of spraying the alloys black. Not sure how it would turn out though.

I'm gonna wait until the summer and maybe get it resprayed. The bonnet needs it which will need the wings blended. And then just small marks around the car that I would like to get redone.

Then once I get a new car as a daily I will think about putting an M3 evo engine into it. But for now it will stay a 318is With more options than most higher models.