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Today I did something to my car (volume 2)
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Sourced a complete set of just refurbished E63 7 Series wheels at the weekend which I've been trying to hunt down for quite a long time. They're genuine Borbet for BMW wheels and measure 19x9 at the front and 19x10 at the rear. I've brand new centre caps to go in today, just need to give the car a wash first!
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Paddy@CIRL wrote: »Sourced a complete set of just refurbished E63 7 Series wheels at the weekend which I've been trying to hunt down for quite a long time. They're genuine Borbet for BMW wheels and measure 19x9 at the front and 19x10 at the rear. I've brand new centre caps to go in today, just need to give the car a wash
That looks deadly man, 10 across the back is ridiculous
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The automatic exhaust adjustment strikes again :rolleyes: to be fair that speedbump incident did a fair amount to knock it off its position....
No pics as I've been outside in the dark working on it
Breather issue addressed to, re engineered the breather pipe (hacked, butchered and brutalised to my specifications) tomorrow will be the test in traffic
Also went at the pump for the first time in a while, horay for extra throw on the throttle! 0 -
Paddy@CIRL wrote: »Sourced a complete set of just refurbished E63 7 Series wheels at the weekend which I've been trying to hunt down for quite a long time. They're genuine Borbet for BMW wheels and measure 19x9 at the front and 19x10 at the rear. I've brand new centre caps to go in today, just need to give the car a wash first!
They look sweet paddy, work really well the the new front bumper.0 -
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I done an interior valet today. Seats, carpets got a good hoovering and foamed them with a chemical that lifts dirt, then a quick hoover again. The glass was next and all I used there was a few sheets of news paper and vinegar. It looks as good if not better than some of the glass cleaners I've used before. Sprayed some fabrezze on the carpets too and new air freshener. 0
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Truckermal wrote: »The fastest I have reached is 100mph coming back from your place, I was thinking this yoke is very noisy cruising at 60 until I realised. .:eek::eek:
Do you pass your own private runway on the way home from colm's
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Well yesterday I finally got my clutch sorted.
For the last month or so I've had to top the brake fluid reservoir up with lovely dot 4 fluid every few days. At first I thought there was a leak between he reservoir and the brakes but they were always working fine.
Then the clutch started to get worse.
Herein lay the problem! :eek:
Must say cheers to dgt for the help. 0 -
Serviced the car today, oil, oil filter, air filter.
Air filter was manky:
The msport side skirts I bought arrived so I fitted one to see what it will look like. Happy with the results. Have to get them sprayed before they go on for good.
Before (non m sport skirts):
After (m sport skirts):
Can't wait to get them on! Back bumper then after that0 -
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I didn't really do that much I suppose, but did have a fiddle around with the car yesterday, it's a 1996 Pug 406 19. td I bought about 2 months ago. Got it for 750 and had to fix a few problems a couple of weeks ago that I didn't spot... bushings, rocker cover seal, driver door needed a good bending as there was a loud whistle above 70, and the fuel filler neck was dodgy, culminating in me being stuck at Topaz for about 20 minutes one time because the bloody fuel pump wouldn't come out of the car! Had a big incident a few weeks ago which I thought was caused by the turbo, dgt kindly supplied me with a replacement, big thanks for that, legend of a guy! Mech has all but ruled out the turbo after a thorough inspection, might be an injector problem. I'll bring a mechanic next time
Inside of windscreen and windows are really badly misting in the mornings, need to look further into this, had a look at door seals etc. but nothing obvious. Need to get a new pollen filter too.
Fitted new flat blade wipers as the old ones looked like they were the original wipers that came on the car! :eek:
Fixed an electric window, switch was dodgy, turns out the plastic casing had cracked, allowing the actual button that you push to move downwards when pushed, resulting in the micro switch underneath not being triggered. Bit of superglue sorted it nicely. 2 windows still faulty. One has broken cables in the door and the other could be the regulator, it behaves very erratically!
Rear demister switch also not working, and the bulb in the time clock is missing altogether. Pulled apart the demister switch completely as I couldn't see anything obvious when I removed it from the console. Spent a good hour at it and I came to the conclusion that the micro switch was fried. There were mechanical parts broken but I swapped them out with parts from another switch and no joy. Off to ebay for that one.
Time clock was another fruitless exploit unfortunately. I have fitted an aftermarket radio to the car, so the MFD is useless now. I pulled a working bulb out of the MFD to see if it would fit only to realise the part you put the bulb into the time clock was also gone. Bulb was wrong size too and therefore probably wrong voltage/ampage. That didn't stop me trying though! Filed down the sides of the bulb so I could fit it behind the clock's screen, jury rigged a wiring harness and connected up the bulb and glued it in place so I could reassemble and test it. Plugged it in and nothing. Ebay again!
Electric mirrors switch busted too, pulled it apart, nothing obvious. guess where I'm buying a new one
Had to buy a new gear knob too as the current one is a wreck, the plastic gear map has come out and edges of the circle around it are all jagged and broken, almost painful to change gears quickly.
I destroyed my undertray backing a trailer into the garden, a hedge branch tore most of it off. Stitched it up good and proper!
My main work was to do with the air intake pipe though. Its location is a bit of a design flaw and there are people all over the net who say their 406 has been hydrolocked from driving through very shallow water or even large puddles. Seeing my area is constantly getting floods during winter I thought I'd better see to this sooner rather than later! A quick fix is to just pull the pipe off the air filter till you're past the water but I don't want to have to keep doing this and also drawing hot air from the engine bay into the engine.
The pipe currently runs from the bottom of the air filter downwards, with a 90 degree bend towards the passenger side of the car. It runs from there into the left front wheel arch.
This red line is where I'm thinking of running the new pipe. I found a gap down the side of the radiator leading to the grille. You can see the gap in the 2nd photo, there's a small bit of light in the middle.
The standard air pipe is 7" wide, and a pipe that big won't fit, so I'm thinking of 3 or 4 sections of 4" pipe or 2 5" pipes, joining them together inside the engine bay once they're clear of the rad.
The idea is that the open end of the pipes are much higher up than the standard intake. I'm not sure whether plastic or rubber piping would stand up better to heat fluctuations from being so close to the rad, but I'm guessing rubber seeing as the pipes coming out of the rad are rubber.
the second problem is that rain water could very easily come through the grille and into the pipes if im driving at speed. The only thing I can think of to solve that would be to bend the ends of the pipes back on themselves using a cable tie, so the open part of the pipes will be facing the front of the rad. Id say the airflow would be good enough when I'm moving that the pipes will still draw cold air in. They might take in warm air at idle but that makes no difference!
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Fuel sender finally replaced in the C5 (under rear seat access, 20 minute job for my mechanic) and the car now starts lovely and quick AKA normally
Two things I've learned since getting this sorted...
* Dealers can be right pricks to deal with, regardless of warranty.
* Dodgy / washed diesel can really mess your engine up.
PS: Don't buy diesel for the Ross Station, Old Dunshaughlin to Navan Road (parallel to M3).0
My car is now in the nip 
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