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Today I did something to my car (volume 2)

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    #2042
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    @ DGT, it means starter motor

    Nice to know that was replaced, even if I have a few spares! Cheers for finding out :)


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    #2043
    TouchingVirus
    Registered Users Posts: 8,584 ✭✭✭TouchingVirus


    So two weekends ago during one brake pedal depress it went all the way to the floor and didn't stop the car. The depressions before and after were grand though so perhaps I cooked the brakes a bit. That was until Thursday of last week when I felt a poor bite with a bit of vibration in the steering. I took it for a spin Saturday, it was worse and I heard grinding of metal when applying the brakes. This is what I faced as the cause:

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    Those were Mintex pads fitted along with ATE/BMW OEM discs on February 9th 2013 at 97.5k miles. The car has ~104k on it now. I did one track day in July 2013. The disc has some scoring but it'll be fine, not worth a skim and BMW state in TIS that M discs should not be skimmed.

    Replaced with EBC Redstuff:

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    #2044
    GvidoR
    Registered Users Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    Nice pads. I'd prefer to have the calipers red though. :P


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    #2045
    corkgsxr
    Registered Users Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭corkgsxr


    Iv had all sorts. Brembo is good. Ebc is best. Unparalleled braking performance


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    #2046
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    GvidoR wrote: »
    Nice pads. I'd prefer to have the calipers red though. :P

    It's an M3, calipers are electroplated which IMO looks much better :)


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    #2047
    YbFocus
    Registered Users Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    It'd look a bit gay spaying calipers on an m3 anyway.


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    #2048
    Black_Knight
    Moderators Posts: 12,374 ✭✭✭✭Black_Knight


    eringobragh wrote: »
    Thats class- I initially thought it was one of those tacky illuminated badged

    Ugh. Didnt know they existed, and didnt want to know either.

    Sure I had to get (present from herself actually) the reversing camera after I got the RNS 510 head unit last year.

    Might pick up one of these to make life easier on myself connecting up to the fuse box:
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    #2049
    GvidoR
    Registered Users Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    YbFocus wrote: »
    It'd look a bit gay spaying calipers on an m3 anyway.

    Oh yeah... don't treat and paint those rusty calipers, it's an M3!


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    #2050
    YbFocus
    Registered Users Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    GvidoR wrote: »
    Oh yeah... don't treat and paint those rusty calipers, it's an M3!

    They're electroplated? So they won't rust.

    On normal cars I don't get the idea of spraying calipers mad colours. I done some before on my passat to seal them, a silver that was as close to oem as standard.

    No point in trying to highlight a tiny single piston caliper, lost in behind the cars wheels.


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    #2051
    GvidoR
    Registered Users Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    YbFocus wrote: »
    They're electroplated? So they won't rust.

    On normal cars I don't get the idea of spraying calipers mad colours. I done some before on my passat to seal them, a silver that was as close to oem as standard.

    No point in trying to highlight a tiny single piston caliper, lost in behind the cars wheels.

    It's a personal taste kind of thing.

    When you can barely see behind the wheel then there's not much point in doing it but when it shines through it looks nice.

    I'm going for white alloys and yellow calipers on my car. :P


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    #2052
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    A lot to be said for a sleeper car. No painted calipers here (any more), no stickers, all factory looking on the outside.

    I'll get there fully someday.... All go, no show :cool:


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    #2053
    GvidoR
    Registered Users Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    At these insurance prices, I can't afford the 'go' :D


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    #2054
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    GvidoR wrote: »
    At these insurance prices, I can't afford the 'go' :D

    Bodykits, stickers, gaudy wheels etc are goin to attract more visual attention than some bet up hape ;)


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    #2055
    GvidoR
    Registered Users Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    Body kits aren't really my thing. Maybe some subtle ones, but ones that really stick out are... what's the word I'm looking for...

    Also I'm not really sure what you mean by 'gaudy'.


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    #2056
    YbFocus
    Registered Users Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    GvidoR wrote: »
    It's a personal taste kind of thing.

    When you can barely see behind the wheel then there's not much point in doing it but when it shines through it looks nice.

    I'm going for white alloys and yellow calipers on my car. :P

    Oh absolutely, each to their own and all that.

    A nice brembo 4-pot struggling for room behind a rim is gorgeous. A standard caliper painted just ain't my thing.

    Edit: Gaudy = sh1t


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    #2057
    dar83
    Registered Users Posts: 7,106 ✭✭✭dar83


    Haha. That post made my morning. Thanks. :)


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    #2058
    GvidoR
    Registered Users Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    Sometimes I wonder why I even bother posting something here.


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    #2059
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    GvidoR wrote: »
    Sometimes I wonder why I even bother posting something here.

    You're getting advice from people who have done this thing before. Its your decision to take it or leave it

    Btw I used to modify Fiats. You can imagine the stick I used to get. Did that ever stop me? ;)


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    #2060
    YbFocus
    Registered Users Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    As did I gvidor :)

    Had a fair few embarrassing cars, if that's your thing you do it man. Nobody said anything against you here in fairness.
    You will in a few years look back and say "Oh god why" things like my focus make me think that :o


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    #2061
    GvidoR
    Registered Users Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    From what I remember, the Focus wasn't that bad.


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    #2062
    colm_mcm
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    GvidoR wrote: »
    From what I remember, the Focus wasn't that bad.

    One day you'll look back and think it was :)


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    #2063
    GvidoR
    Registered Users Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    Maybe if I saw a pic of it again I could tell.


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    #2064
    YbFocus
    Registered Users Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    GvidoR wrote: »
    Maybe if I saw a pic of it again I could tell.

    What's more embarrassing is that I used to think it was the ****! :o

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    Honestly you'll regret it in a few years :)


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    #2065
    Supergurrier
    Registered Users Posts: 7,297 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    YbFocus wrote: »
    What's more embarrassing is that I used to think it was the ****! :o

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    Honestly you'll regret it in a few years :)

    Love the front light clusters w/o the yellow showing on the sides. Are they aftermarket do you remember ?


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    #2066
    YbFocus
    Registered Users Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    Supergurrier wrote: »
    Love the front light clusters w/o the yellow showing on the sides. Are they aftermarket do you remember ?

    That was a whole new after market headlight SG, not sure if you could get the clusters seperate or if they were even available separately.


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    #2067
    Supergurrier
    Registered Users Posts: 7,297 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    YbFocus wrote: »
    That was a whole new after market headlight SG, not sure if you could get the clusters seperate or if they were even available separately.

    That's what I mean.

    Wouldn't mind a set of those. Wonder if they can still be got.

    Don't fancy having to split a set of chrome ford headlights in the oven to paint them black.


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    #2068
    YbFocus
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    Supergurrier wrote: »
    That's what I mean.

    Wouldn't mind a set of those. Wonder if they can still be got.

    Don't fancy having to split a set of chrome ford headlights in the oven to paint them black.

    They had halo lights in them :o

    Honestly man I wouldn't but I'll get you the site I got them off this evening when I'm home.


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    #2069
    SleeperService
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    Prefer sleeper myself, but that pic of the focus looks fine to me, better than fine tbh. No tdi shtyle chicken wire and piss poor aftermarket DRLs. (personal pet hates, along with busted up misaligned body kits)


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    #2070
    YbFocus
    Registered Users Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    SleeperService wrote: »
    Prefer sleeper myself, but that pic of the focus looks fine to me, better than fine tbh. No tdi shtyle chicken wire and piss poor aftermarket DRLs. (personal pet hates, along with busted up misaligned body kits)

    It was a tidy car and back in 2008 it was the thing but looking back now it's silly. All that money for nothing, 1.4 under the bonnet :o


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    #2071
    GvidoR
    Registered Users Posts: 5,925 ✭✭✭GvidoR


    YbFocus wrote: »
    It was a tidy car and back in 2008 it was the thing but looking back now it's silly. All that money for nothing, 1.4 under the bonnet :o

    Would you rather drive an all stock K11 Micra?
    When you modify it, you most likely maintain it better that most car owners too.

    Also, about the 1.4 the tax and insurance prices are to blame. In eastern europe, 2.0L petrol car would be looked at the same as Daewoo Matiz here.


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