Today I did something to my car (volume 2)

Chris_Heilong

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

It is a crack not just a chip, can cracks be repaired that way?

I'm not sure if it shares the screen with a different model but knowing toyota it probably does

yeah cracked glass can be repaired.
Like this one.

weekaizer

Paddy@CIRL wrote: »

Decided to have a go at trying some spacers on the rear and already had 15mm, 12mm and 5mm to hand. Undone the wheel nuts only to find the wheels stuck to the hubs, a quick bang with a length of wood (no sniggering) and found the lips on the wheel hub to be fairly shoddy. Wire brushed the worst of the **** off them, sanded them clean and applied some copper grease to prevent it happening in future. Tried the 12mm spacers first and the result was comical, was raining so didn't take a picture but I would definitely have won the super BMW hellaflush championship. Took them off and tried the 5mm ones which were pretty much perfect fitment but the RHS rear was rubbing ever so slightly under compression. Although the car is low and the offsets are fairly aggressive, I'm not into rubbing or any sort of detrimental effects on the car's performance so off they came as well.

So I basically worked outside in the rain for a few hours, only to have the car exactly as it was before I started. The joys of it all.

Are u selling any of those e90 spacers by chance paddy!?.

Black_Knight

Paddy@CIRL wrote: »

So I basically worked outside in the rain for a few hours, only to have the car exactly as it was before I started. The joys of it all.

On the plus side, your car still looks awesome!

corkgsxr

Ahhhhhh spent 230 euro on a maf sensor just to rule it out. May have mildly helped but its not fixed.

Saying that Renault wanted 300 euro, Nissan 260, opel was 230 and funny thing was it was in a Renault box. All for the same part

So all that's left is track rod inners (to be done soon), decat (over xmas), injector (donno when ill prob cry when I get the bill (need to be programmed can do it myself))

One day I'll be done.

Also I think it's time to block sections of the radiator. Short trips in low temps isnt helping mpg.

YbFocus

She's just had her latest 8.3 litres
This came from the link on eBay, thanks very much boys cheap oil servicing from now on

BillJ

8.3 litres?:eek:

What oil is that? Does it meet the bmw requirements?

Lardy

Replaced the fuel regulator switch on the back of the high pressure pump... Again... Peugeot 307 HDI.

YbFocus

BillJ wrote: »

What oil is that? Does it meet the bmw requirements?

Yep it's GM oil and it meets my BMW LL04 rating, getting ten litres in from England for €53!! Really good stuff too I done my reaserch!

BillJ

That does seem like great value!

YbFocus

€5 a litre delivered, the best before that I was getting was €70 in halfords on trade.

For the likes of castrol, which is overrated stuff and not worthy of the name it has I would have been paying €110 a service for oil!
For me thats every 7,000 or 2 months or so.
So I need the cheapest oil I can get that is still top quality!

Supergurrier

Paid like 70 quid for ten litres if Mobil one new life 0-40w when I did mine in may my yoke only managed to guzzle seven litres mind

YbFocus

Mobil1 make fantastic oil, You can actually feel it in the car I find. With the Bmw anyway!

corkgsxr

YbFocus wrote: »

€5 a litre delivered, the best before that I was getting was €70 in halfords on trade.

For the likes of castrol, which is overrated stuff and not worthy of the name it has I would have been paying €110 a service for oil!
For me thats every 7,000 or 2 months or so.
So I need the cheapest oil I can get that is still top quality!

I find castrol to be mighty oil

Use it in everything.

YbFocus

corkgsxr wrote: »

I find castrol to be mighty oil

Use it in everything.

I used to think that, but I started using Liqui Moly and it was better, then used mobil1 and that blew me away. Cleared up the smoke the 530 had, it felt smoother and it wasn't instantly black in the engine like the castrol goes.

The Dexos 2 stuff I got today now is new to me, I'll have to see how it goes

MuppetCheck

YbFocus wrote: »

€5 a litre delivered, the best before that I was getting was €70 in halfords on trade.

For the likes of castrol, which is overrated stuff and not worthy of the name it has I would have been paying €110 a service for oil!
For me thats every 7,000 or 2 months or so.
So I need the cheapest oil I can get that is still top quality!

That's a good price - where do you get it? I got a litre of that to have in the boot if I needed it and it was €22:eek:

YbFocus

MuppetCheck wrote: »

That's a good price - where do you get it? I got a litre of that to have in the boot if I needed it and it was €22:eek:

I'm buying it in two 5 litre containers, €53 altogether with postage to NI (using parcel motel).

The following is the link..

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/200940432693?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

Bpmull

YbFocus wrote: »

Mobil1 make fantastic oil, You can actually feel it in the car I find. With the Bmw anyway!

When I first got my focus I serviced it with castrol. But the last service I used Mobil with the ford spec and i think it's made a big difference car seems to run better on it and is doing a good 3 mpg more . Oil does make a huge difference.

YbFocus

Bpmull wrote: »

When I first got my focus I serviced it with castrol. But the last service I used Mobil with the ford spec and i think it's made a big difference car seems to run better on it and is doing a good 3 mpg more . Oil does make a huge difference.

Yep, when I started out I used nothing except castrol and didn't know any different. Once I used a few others I could see and feel the difference, I havent seen better than Mobil1 it's great stuff!

corkgsxr

More progress made. Since I had so many bulbs missing I went mad with osram. Whole lot changed.



Not my van in the picture but useful to see the grill sections. what I done was blocked the lower big section of grill with a section of perspex painted matt black. That leaves the 2" middle section for cooling the radiator.

Top section is just the intercooler.

Tryed it today. Seems to work. It stays warmer while im doing jobs and heats quickly when going. And in city slow driving it doesnt heat up too much either. Im happy.

bmstuff

BMW e39 custom orange led fitted...

Rowley Birkin QC

Expensive pieces of paper; 12 months tax and 13 months NCT.

pajero12

Took down the sump on the Corolla, Was driving yesterday and the oil pressure light flickered on every so often, also threw up an engine management light, as it was due a service I went and changed the oil and the filter, sorted the pressure light but the mgmt light was bugging me so I got a mate to plug it in,came back with a camshaft sensor fault, as it only came on when the pressure light came on i assumed there was an oil starvation problem. When I took down the sump, the gauze on the pick up was 90% blocked with carbon and the bottom of the sump was full of crap, was a very close call,buying a second gallon of oil was the only pain

bmstuff

Sorry it is me again with my leds...but you got to love those leds...

Rowley Birkin QC

bmstuff wrote: »

Sorry it is me again with my leds...but you got to love those leds...

Speaking of which....







Been meaning to do this for an age. Bought spurious lights and they turned out to be sh!te so waited out for OEM. A guy turning his crashed M3 into a Saloon sold me his for a great price so in they go.

Just need to get the LCM re-flashed to get rid of dash errors, fit the boot lights and I think I'm done with retrofits to this car. Maybe some more coding trickery.

Might be in touch BMstuff.

rizzee

Changed the boot light to an LED. Much better

toastedpickles

Been a while since i frequented here :pac:

I got my tracking done and headlights realigned

joujoujou

Washed my car.

Washed my woman's car as well.

JJJJNR

Found out today while getting the timing belt done that my engine had a near death experience, basically at some stage one of the screws or bolts that holds in the cogs and pullys in the timing area came loose, dropped down hit a cog and shot out straight through the plastic casing that covers the whole thing.. dodged a massive bomb there.. would have been looking at a whole new engine had it hit the belt or got lodged in a tooth etc.. palpatations.

vectra

Installed footwell lights to my car today.
about 90 minutes all in to wire / fit / and code.

Hope I get longer out of this set than the last ones

MuppetCheck

vectra wrote: »

Installed footwell lights to my car today.
about 90 minutes all in to wire / fit / and code.

Hope I get longer out of this set than the last ones

Pics? Easy to wire up?