Today I did something to my car (volume 2)

Toyotafanboi

i just think if something needs to be painted you take it to a panel beater. if you can't justify taking it to a panel beater it probably doesn't really need to be painted.

bar maybe touching up some old screw or bolt heads or some engine bay ancillaries with a can of matte black you rarely see a rattle can ending well in an amateurs hands.

GvidoR

I've went through a good few cans so I can achieve a pretty much perfect finish (or so it seems to me). Will need to get some more plasti-dip, too bad it's about 600% more expensive here than in the US.

JohnBoy26

I've never seen a rattle can achieve a perfect finish yet, especially on larger items.

challengemaster

You were doing so well until now Gvidor

GvidoR

Are you saying it looks better like this?

challengemaster

GvidoR wrote: »

Are you saying it looks better like this?

Yes. But they looked much better like this:

JohnBoy26

GvidoR wrote: »

Are you saying it looks better like this?

Yeah it does tbh.

GvidoR

challengemaster wrote: »

Yes. But they looked much better like this:

Well, that's how it looks right now actually.

shanec1928

GvidoR wrote: »

Well, that's how it looks right now actually.

Put some money aside and get alloys? A few sets of bora sport alloys on done deal for the 200 mark.

Cleveland Hot Pocket

set of A8 alloys would look good on that. I had some on my mark 4 golf, they suit the vw's.
Lose the steelies!

tossy

fixed that for you

L-M

A friend of mine is an absolute ace with rattle cans.

I'm having a little war with a mirror spider. After using the hose to no avail I tried the air gun, blew fecking paint off the mirror and today there are two fresh webs...

Spider 2 - 0 LM

L-M

A friend of mine is an absolute ace with rattle cans.

I'm having a little war with a mirror spider. After using the hose to no avail I tried the air gun, blew fecking paint off the mirror and today there are two fresh webs...

Spider 2 - 0 LM

Noccy_Mondy

Limerick man wrote: »

A friend of mine is an absolute ace with rattle cans.

I'm having a little war with a mirror spider. After using the hose to no avail I tried the air gun, blew fecking paint off the mirror and today there are two fresh webs...

Spider 2 - 0 LM

Get fly spray, spray a tad on the web, then bucko will come out from hide and seek, then leather the spray on him. Worked for me in getting over 20 off the jeep :cool:

ShaunieVW

Window reg and valve cover replacement. The window reg was zero craic.

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Few steps missing but how and ever!

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I was ready to set fire to it at this stage!

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Everything looked in good order here for a car nearing 130k miles

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rizzee

Got a full service and the squeeky noise is gone yay! Very happy, the Golf drives so smooth now!! The mechanic isn't back til next week so I'll be down to talk to him and see what the squeek was about, hopefully won't be expensive

cletus

Two jobs done on the missus' new car (Nissan X-Trail).Rear anti roll bar bushes replaced. Nice easy job, access is great, and they are bolt on/ bolt off components. Only issue was breaking bolts that haven't been opened in 8 years. Soaked the bolts in wd40 for an hour, but still needed a breaker bar. Didn't have one, so I cut down an old 5' barbell I had, gave me a 3' and 2' bar. Worked a treat

Second job was replacing rear break pads. Again, big wheel arches made for easy access, and job oxo

Interslice

I flushed the 'coolant' that appeared to be just rusty water and filled it with fresh stuff.



Sorted out the wipers mechanically yesterday. The old parts were a bit worn!



The wipers work grand now but stop wherever they happen to be when you knock them off. The intermittent setting is very strange too. It completes one wipe in four separate movements . Maybe a relay gone or something??

Ded_Zebra

Interslice wrote: »

The wipers work grand now but stop wherever they happen to be when you knock them off. The intermittent setting is very strange too. It completes one wipe in four separate movements . Maybe a relay gone or something??

My Primera does the same thing exactly!!! Toyotafanboi sent me a guide on how to fix it (well a guide for an MG but I would think it's the same problem.) I've not got around to fixing it yet but I'll PM you a link to the guide when I find it.

YbFocus

So now finally I get around to putting up a few pics from the fitting of the spacers. They are hubcentric and as I said this morning stay away from slip on types

I bought them off adverts and got done by being given very cheap bolts.
So I ordered my own and got them on eventually!

The first two show how it looked before and the last three are how it now stands. Much more arch filling and I can keep my head up after hiding it in the sand driving around like that for a while

Before





After








Much better

GvidoR

Could've gone another 20-30mm but it looks better now than before anyway.

YbFocus

GvidoR wrote: »

Could've gone another 20-30mm but it looks better now than before anyway.

Not with the lip on the arch man, that's where it would be if it were oem.
You can kind of make out the inner lip in the third shot.

I ain't rolling arches

Also I think that 20mm is a safe max with spacers! Maybe 30mm at a push, but 50??

challengemaster

YbFocus wrote: »

Not with the lip on the arch man, that's where it would be if it were oem.
You can kind of make out the inner lip in the third shot.

I ain't rolling arches

Also I think that 20mm is a safe max with spacers! Maybe 30mm at a push, but 50??

Sure drift cars run huge spacers for extra lock

You're right though, that lip is a hoor.

dgt

Just a normal service....

Most of the bits


First: this was annoying me. It got a new cap


Air filter was 6 clips and a few seconds, so nothing to see. I'd have spent more time farting taking the phone out

This is the easiest oil change I've ever done. I didn't even have to jack the car up. Simple really, reach down and open the bung with a 13mm spanner/ratchet (breaker bar here to show the room available)


The black cap in the middle houses the oil filter. Suitable sized filter tool is all that's needed


Moments later its out. It took less than a minute to open the bung and remove the oil filter


Next the brakes. Again, nothing strange, standard sliding caliper so out with the 13mm and 15mm spanners. The wear sensor just wiggles out of the pad and insert into the new pads. Dead handy



Now, I ran into bother with both calipers where both bleed screws rang on me due to.... Lack of maintenance :rolleyes: Not to worry, drill out the stump, pick the bits out, clean it up and I inserted 2 nipples from an Alfa instead. Problem solved

Next problem was the carrier, one side was seized. So I took it off and worked on it with plusgas. After a few minutes I find the culprit


Cleaned it up, smoothed it out, re-greased, back on the car. Done :cool:

Lastly, I changed the front springs, rears tomorrow. Another handy job: simply remove the anti roll bar (4 nuts and 2 bolts with lots of room) drop the upper wishbone, disconnect the shock, jack up the lower arm, compress springs, lower jack and hey presto, springs out. All done in the dark so no pics but here's a pic of what it looks like now


Oh yeah I got those wheels where a set of 4 wheels and tyres with decent meat were cheaper than 2 new tyres :pac:

All that cost less than €200 and I have some change left over to get the other bits I need. Yes, the wheels and springs on top of the service parts

And that's a lot in an evenings work

Interslice

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

My Primera does the same thing exactly!!! Toyotafanboi sent me a guide on how to fix it (well a guide for an MG but I would think it's the same problem.) I've not got around to fixing it yet but I'll PM you a link to the guide when I find it.

Sound! Thought this was a one off dodgy wiring problem.

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime

dont suppose theres anybody doing nothing on saturday to help me pull the reverse light switch out of my car !

i actually know how to do it but i lack any and all tools

toastedpickles

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »

dont suppose theres anybody doing nothing on saturday to help me pull the reverse light switch out of my car !

i actually know how to do it but i lack any and all tools

Gimme a shout I'll be around

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime

toastedpickles wrote: »

Gimme a shout I'll be around

sound stuff ! should be a 10 min job but i need to pull the old one out and drop into the motor factors for the new one (few different types available but all can be got on the spot and same price !)

toastedpickles

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »

sound stuff ! should be a 10 min job but i need to pull the old one out and drop into the motor factors for the new one (few different types available but all can be got on the spot and same price !)

Grand, will i drop up to you or what?

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime

toastedpickles wrote: »

Grand, will i drop up to you or what?

Ah its probably handy to drop to you.

So I can fly up and back between motor factors quickly !

I'll grab ya on the book of faces there anyway soon ! Sound lad altogether !