Today I did something to my car (volume 2)

YbFocus

GvidoR wrote: »

Swearing at my car for having bolts in such awkward places.

I know that all too well

Noccy_Mondy

GvidoR wrote: »

Swearing at my car for having bolts in such awkward places.

Or the ones that you need an allen key to open, when you don't have an allen key set...grr...:mad: :pac:

YbFocus

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Or the ones that you need an allen key to open, when you don't have an allen key set...grr...:mad: :pac:

Or the ones which you think are an Allen key but after making bits of it for 20 mins you realise it's a torx :rolleyes:

Eric Cartman

New Tyres , 275 is a lot wider than i thought ha.

and a good wash.

corkgsxr

275 is quite wide. I think the hyundai coupe on 225/17 pozenzas is uncrashable

I noticed a whirring sound in the front left of my '93 Corolla this week so, given it's that time of the year again, I rang for a cancellation on Thursday and got an appointment for the NCT today. Went in and it went through the motions:



...and it passed every test. But it got an overall fail because one of the rear drop links were worn, so I replaced both of them this afternoon and have the retest on Thursday coming. Bit annoyed that the NCT didn't pick up on the whirring noise though!

wotzgoingon

I changed the brake light bulb on my car and also tightened the altenator belt today as it started sqeaking last night and kept doing it today. And after I tightened it brought car for test drive and sqeaking stopped, so all is good.

JerCotter7

Dropped the pushrod from the slave cylinder into the gearbox. Now the gearbox has to come back off. It was the last thing to connect after swapping the gearbox and now I'm back to square one.

rizzee

Long time no chat folks

Got the hoover out gave her an almighty job inside!! Will get the outside sorted tomorrow, weather pending.

GvidoR

Booked NCT.

I want to do this too.

wotzgoingon

GvidoR wrote: »

Booked NCT.

What is it? I must be blind I don't see anything different.

dgt

wotzgoingon wrote: »

What is it? I must be blind I don't see anything different.

Be drivin with yer ambers on full time..... No flashes, treated as sides lad.

Designated DRL's are too mainstream, so this is the alternative, totes deck

wotzgoingon

dgt wrote: »

Be drivin with yer ambers on full time..... No flashes,

Oh yea I see that now that you mentioned it.

japasca

I decided to do a service on my girlfriends Kia, since she told me she has not had it service since she's owned it! (over 2 years!!:eek:)


I got under the car and removed the sump protector


Located the Oil Drain plug and began draining the oil. (I noticed that the sump plug was very tight)


Old washer compared to new one. I had to back the old washer off the sump plug as it had distorted around the threads.

Plug reinstalled at correct torque


Removing the oil filter took nearly 1 hour. It was located at the back of the engine, on the drivers side and was only slightly easier to reach from above. I was very close to giving up but eventually managed to get a few turns on it and get it off.


The oil coming out of it was like thick crude oil. You can see some of the damage to the housing where i was struggling to remove it. I then installed the new filter hand tight only.
I then added 4 liters of Castrol 5w30 Fully synthetic Magnatec oil (€35 from tesco)



The air filter was very easy to change and took less than 2min.


The cabin air filter was next


And finally i changed out the noisy streaky wipers to new Bosch Aerotwin wiper that i bought on eBay for €30


Disposal of the old oil and filters cost an extra €5, and I added another liter of oil to fill the sump (costing €16 from maxol :mad:)
Total cost of less than €100 for the service. The missus still thought it wasn't needed :rolleyes:

GvidoR

Job well done. What is the correct torque, though?

corkgsxr

GvidoR wrote: »

Job well done. What is the correct torque, though?

Hand tight then one full nip.

japasca

GvidoR wrote: »

Job well done. What is the correct torque, though?

32.5ft/lbs was the consensus from kia-forums

Supergurrier

Rear brake light bulb and fitted my three months tax disc

MetzgerMeister

6 months tax yesterday, could have bought another turbo, dry service kit and oil for the price

job seeker

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

6 months tax yesterday, could have bought another turbo, dry service kit and oil for the price

I seen your BMW in the "post pic of car here thread" nice car.

And I honestly don't mean to offend you or sound disrespectful. But if your not happy paying high tax, why not sell it and buy a car that is in a lower tax band?

Kaiser D

job seeker wrote: »

I seen your BMW in the "post pic of car here thread" nice car.

And I honestly don't mean to offend you or sound disrespectful. But if your not happy paying high tax, why not sell it and buy a car that is in a lower tax band?

He enjoys the car I guess.

I pay the same on an 18 year old Honda because I like the car. I wouldn't be happy with something else.

Supergurrier

job seeker wrote: »

I seen your BMW in the "post pic of car here thread" nice car.

And I honestly don't mean to offend you or sound disrespectful. But if your not happy paying high tax, why not sell it and buy a car that is in a lower tax band?

Government will just move the goalposts anyway.

+ There is alot to be said for driving a car you really like

eringobragh

Changed the oil and filter on the MR2 change number 4 - no harm after mondello and needed doing anyway

while the car was up I wanted to check for rust behind the undertrays

Have to hand it toyota they have the underneath sealed up very well.

Unfortunately every second bolt snapped tried a screw extractor- no dice ...remembered I had a tap and die set unused so drilled them out and retapped. Just the front panel left to do.

lucky I peempted this and had stainless bolts on reserve

Out with the old and in with the new

toastedpickles

Today I got all this

4 NKG spark plugs
An air filter
Pollen filter
Fuel filter,
5l of saab oil
Oil filter
Two sump nuts :pac: they must have known mine fell out :P

and a set of balljoints

All for 100 moneys

Bpmull

That pollen filter looks very small or maybe it's just the way in looking at it.

toastedpickles

Bpmull wrote: »

That pollen filter looks very small or maybe it's just the way in looking at it.

Yeah i think it's how i have it held, it's fairly big actually

MJ23

Changed the wheels on my Saab 93 from 225/45/17 to 215/55/16. Sweet. Runs much smoother now.
Also changed all internal lights to blue led. And front parker lights to white led, along with number plate bulbs to white led. Looks deadly.

toastedpickles

MJ23 wrote: »

Changed the wheels on my Saab 93 from 225/45/17 to 215/55/16. Sweet. Runs much smoother now.
Also changed all internal lights to blue led. And front parker lights to white led, along with number plate bulbs to white led. Looks deadly.

I'm moving up to 225/45/17 soon, using the 16s as spares/winter tyres, how are they? And changing the lights

MJ23

toastedpickles wrote: »

I'm moving up to 225/45/17 soon, using the 16s as spares/winter tyres, how are they? And changing the lights

I'll be selling my 17's soon. They're 5 spoke.
Lights are very nice. Very easy to change.

toastedpickles

MJ23 wrote: »

I'll be selling my 17's soon. They're 5 spoke.
Lights are very nice. Very easy to change.

They're the ones i have, caused a bit of a divide between them and the original ones on it now, where did you get them lights?