Today I did something to my car (volume 2)

YbFocus

Fair play man that's as neat as you like :eek:
Very nice work!

bmstuff

YbFocus wrote: »

Fair play man that's as neat as you like :eek:
Very nice work!

Thanks. That was a team effort with my installation buddies and the customer.

Ded_Zebra

Today I drove my car for the first time in 46 days :cool: Started first go, typical Toyota:p

I then bought it 12 months tax and got a puncture repaired. Then I washed it and took a couple of quick pics

Toyotafanboi

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

Today I drove my car for the first time in 46 days :cool: Started first go, typical Toyota:p

I then bought it 12 months tax and got a puncture repaired. Then I washed it and took a couple of quick pics

similar. hadn't drove it in 2 weeks, got into it today and drove it less than 2 miles to the NCT center and it passed first time like a boss with no pre-NCT work.

gave it a celebratory wash.

166man

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

similar. hadn't drove it in 2 weeks, got into it today and drove it less than 2 miles to the NCT center and it passed first time like a boss with no pre-NCT work.

gave it a celebratory wash.

So when you don't drive you don't post is it?


Haven't seen you around for a bit Andy, good to see you back! The place had gone very exciting without your Toyota-fanboi-ness...:pac:

Scortho

Since I got my alfa, the air con has been needing a regas.
All through the heat wave in July I was cursing myself for not getting it fixed and never got around to it either.
Because it was broken, I had it turned off for ages, however yesterday I put it on by accident and its blowing nice cold air, although not really powerfully.
It does however beat the warm air, that was blowing previously.
Oh i love italian cars!:D

Black_Knight

Scortho wrote: »

Since I got my alfa, the air con has been needing a regas.
All through the heat wave in July I was cursing myself for not getting it fixed and never got around to it either.
Because it was broken, I had it turned off for ages, however yesterday I put it on by accident and its blowing nice cold air, although not really powerfully.
It does however beat the warm air, that was blowing previously.
Oh i love italian cars!:D

I wouldnt get too excited. You're saying the cold air (with aircon) is colder now, than it was when the weather was hot. Makes sense, but id say you might be disappointed again if/when the warm weather comes back around, and I wouldnt be surprise if it was blowing warm(not fridgey) air again.

My old A3 was the same. I thought the aircon was gone it it, but it was just really poor. Not until the sun started shining that I noticed it was dead. It was the aircon motor, not the gas. Ended up selling it last October, so there wasnt much warm weather to get in a fuss over.

Scortho

Black_Knight wrote: »

I wouldnt get too excited. You're saying the cold air (with aircon) is colder now, than it was when the weather was hot. Makes sense, but id say you might be disappointed again if/when the warm weather comes back around, and I wouldnt be surprise if it was blowing warm(not fridgey) air again.

My old A3 was the same. I thought the aircon was gone it it, but it was just really poor. Not until the sun started shining that I noticed it was dead. It was the aircon motor, not the gas. Ended up selling it last October, so there wasnt much warm weather to get in a fuss over.

The aircon in cold has been roasting for the last 2 months. Even after the heatwave it was roasting.
Driving yesterday around 6 so it wasn't exactly cold. Added to the fact that where it had to go through (busso engine bay is piping hot) hopefully it's fine.
If it isn't, at least I know that it worked fine.

wotzgoingon

I fitted front brake pads today, to go with the new brake discs I fitted last week. I fitted them in the parking lot outside the motor factors. Didn't take long. I don't have the proper tool to move back the piston(I think thats what it's called) so I used a vise-grip.

rizzee

Paid the tax online and booked the DOE for next week. Just need to change a couple of bulbs back to standard and it'll fly.

Gary ITR

Sold the bangernomics Accord and bought a CLK230 out of the takings...

Scortho

Gary ITR wrote: »

Sold the bangernomics Accord and bought a CLK230 out of the takings...

Nice

Toyotafanboi

166man wrote: »

So when you don't drive you don't post is it?


Haven't seen you around for a bit Andy, good to see you back! The place had gone very exciting without your Toyota-fanboi-ness...:pac:

pretty much, have to occasionally venture into the outside world :P good to hear i was missed :pac:

toastedpickles

Soooooooooo, my bumper is almost complete it's sprayed, on the car and I'm just taking care of a few teeeny tiny details, pics to folly

dgt

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

pretty much, have to occasionally venture into the outside world :P good to hear i was missed :pac:

Woohoo welcome back!

toastedpickles

Celebrate good times!!

So it's finally done! My front end actually looks like what it should've looked like all this while

It's gone from this



To this



To this




Nearly there :P



Also picked up an extra foglight, a number plate surround and a new ariel so today I got around to fitting all that and doing an oil change

The new ariel



And the number plate housing before



Und after!



Hello joe!



And lastly the picture that everyones been waiting for :pac:

The final result



Also thanks to the certain individuals along the way for helping out, i couldn't have done it otherwise

Next on the list, drop links!

MetzgerMeister

TP - did you get that paint finish yourself??

toastedpickles

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

TP - did you get that paint finish yourself??

No no I got a friend to do it, he's in the biz

MetzgerMeister

toastedpickles wrote: »

No no I got a friend to do it, he's in the biz

Ah right, I was going to say fair play because it's excellent! You did all the prep work though yeah?

toastedpickles

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Ah right, I was going to say fair play because it's excellent! You did all the prep work though yeah?

Yep! It had to be sanded back again cuz the primer was dirt, but it turned out amazingly well

dgt

Thanks to coughing and some sort of flu, I can do f*ck all under my own steam

So the other day I had to cobble my exhaust back on. Out with the tap


Chop a bit off the bracket


And on that pig goes, albeit half of the exhaust

Moving onto this and lack of room to to a thing


Heh heh heh 3 Fiats in a row :pac:

No more lack of room!


Better


Finally I got this out!


Perfect


Get well soon.... To me

Mar4ix

dgt wrote: »

Thanks to coughing and some sort of flu, I can do f*ck all under my own steam

So the other day I had to cobble my exhaust back on. Out with the tap
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Chop a bit off the bracket
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And on that pig goes, albeit half of the exhaust

Moving onto this and lack of room to to a thing
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Heh heh heh 3 Fiats in a row :pac:

No more lack of room!
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Better
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Finally I got this out!
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Perfect
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Get well soon.... To me

Well...... Engine not out ....... dgt , must be really bad flu, ehhhh..... Get well mate

tossy

toastedpickles wrote: »

dgt wrote: »

Same shed lads?

MetzgerMeister

Well spotted tossy

toastedpickles

Well done lads

tossy

So is this the first 'coming out' we've had on motors ? I wish you the best lads

toastedpickles

tossy wrote: »

So is this the first 'coming out' we've had on motors ? I wish you the best lads

Woah reverse the horse there!

What coming out? :pac:

Hal1

The same shed in the same shed .

dgt

Well now you's all know who the painter was so....

And MM gets to see a bit of the inside of the garage :pac:

tossy

Looks impressive DGT,i must keep an eye out on the by roads of the Curragh for the astra and have a close look