What have you done to your car today?

[Vita]

Changed my pollen filter yet again. After realising my previous one was wet. Not good for the heater! A loose scuttle panel was the cause of that.

 

[Begbie]

Replaced injector over the weekend. Car feels alive again.

 

[KiNgPiN83]

Washed, dried, clayed, polished and waxed...

And realised ideally it needs detailing/work done to get rid of all the little dents, scratches, nicks, awful touch up jobs... Maybe later this year.

 

[ianh]

Swapped the RS6 for this -

MRC's 280hp S4 customer hire car whilst I have the last bits of this years preventative maintenance carried out (oh please God let it be the last!) -

L/R front suspension arms (replace every 2-3 years due to very heavy engine)
R rear tie rod (seized toe adjust bolt)
R rear calliper and brake fluid (snapped bleed nipple)
Timing & aux belt inc water pump, pulleys, tensioners & thermostat (replace every 4 years)
Cam cover and tensioner gaskets (leaking)
Front Brakes - Ferodo DS2500 pads and Zimmerman Formula Z Discs (OEM were poor)
4 Wheel Alignment

Just the gearbox left to sort now on Thursday

 

[Matt82]

Such cool cars, really liked mine but it just suit me

 

[ianh]

Even for a customer car this one is a very Worn example It's still fairly quick (looking at the speedo anyway) and the steering feels so much lighter than the RS as well as having a much softer suspension setup but this one sounds pretty nasty and has quite a few mechanical issues

 

[Unicorn]

Washed her, Put back to black on all my plastics and rubber trims etc. Autoglym fastglass cleaned all the glass. Need a tiny dent removing from rear wheel arch. After that ill wait for summer to roll around and borrow an orbital polisher from someone and make a sparking job of my car and fill in every stone chip etc with touchup/wet sand and polish it back up

Come on summer

 

[geekman]

Swapped the RS6 for this -

MRC's 280hp S4 customer hire car whilst I have the last bits of this years preventative maintenance carried out (oh please God let it be the last!) -

L/R front suspension arms (replace every 2-3 years due to very heavy engine)
R rear tie rod (seized toe adjust bolt)
R rear calliper and brake fluid (snapped bleed nipple)
Timing & aux belt inc water pump, pulleys, tensioners & thermostat (replace every 4 years)
Cam cover and tensioner gaskets (leaking)
Front Brakes - Ferodo DS2500 pads and Zimmerman Formula Z Discs (OEM were poor)
4 Wheel Alignment

Just the gearbox left to sort now on Thursday

Dare I ask how much you've spent on it so far?

 

[ianh]

No

After the initial servicing/mapping etc and this 2nd lot of post servicing remedial work (which would have left it running 100% if the gearbox hadn't decided to starting slipping in 2nd at full throttle) it's been £5500. As I'd read up on previous owners maint costs I gave myself an £8k lump sum budget for the 1st years maintenance so this level of cost hasn't been "too" shocking, again except for the gearbox

 

[geekman]

No

After the initial servicing/mapping etc and this 2nd lot of post servicing remedial work (which would have left it running 100% if the gearbox hadn't decided to starting slipping in 2nd at full throttle) it's been £5500. As I'd read up on previous owners maint costs I gave myself an £8k lump sum budget for the 1st years maintenance so this level of cost hasn't been "too" shocking, again except for the gearbox

Ouch! As you say though, pretty much par for the course with an RS6. I still desperately want one and I'm determined to get one when I can afford the running costs. They're just incredible cars, as I'm sure you'd agree

 

[scratch]

Spent yesterday morning changing the plugs on the 335. The old ones actually looked really good considering they were 47k miles old (no record of them being changed in the service history).

Then applied the Cobb Stage 1 Aggressive map with the stock throttle settings, which has made it an absolute beast to drive. It only takes light touches of the throttle to make large changes to the speedo, and it does it with no fuss Floor it though and the turbo makes a much more noticeable whoosh and you shoot off at quite a rate of knots. I'm tempted to try out the linear throttle map as the stock throttle has kind of made the accelerator an on/off switch

Then today my D-CAN cable arrived, so I got Winkfp configured on my laptop and went about flashing the gearbox with the Alpina B3 software. It was far too busy out on the roads this evening to give it a proper try, but gear changes seemed a lot smoother and quicker in D mode, and it's nice to see on the dash what gear the box is currently in. Hopefully I'll get a chance to try out the Sport mode and paddle shifting tomorrow..apparently that's where the Alpina software really brings the car alive.

 

[Voxination]

All sounding good buddy

Then today my D-CAN cable arrived, so I got Winkfp configured on my laptop and went about flashing the gearbox with the Alpina B3 software. It was far too busy out on the roads this evening to give it a proper try, but gear changes seemed a lot smoother and quicker in D mode, and it's nice to see on the dash what gear the box is currently in. Hopefully I'll get a chance to try out the Sport mode and paddle shifting tomorrow..apparently that's where the Alpina software really brings the car alive.

Watched a few videos on YouTube a while back of the Alpina software on the gearbox and the shifts looked very good, keen to hear if your experiences are the same.

 

[rare]

Oil filter housing gasket on my new (to me) E46 330.

And inlet hose, which was split by the throttle body.

Oh and a new set of tyres all round.

 

[Ezah]

My '12 GTI has now done 45k km over 2 years, and the only problem has been the battery, I changed it out on June '13, and then its gone again this week... awful lifespan.

Anyway, took it in for a new one under warranty and 45k service, new front pads, and software update.

All was good until I was out of the gate an felt a huge scratch on the perforated leather steering wheel. meh! They had a look and think it was someones ring, so it will go back again next week for either a repair, or a new steering wheel.. which I wont complain about. Just annoying and more time lost.

 

[Atari]

Washed and waxed it again, need to pop the front bumper off to spray the lower grille black instead of the faded grey it currently is.

Still waiting for my HID kit to arrive so I can start retrofitting my Bi-Xenon projectors

 

[mrk]

Washed? Hah I'd be lucky if the weather allows me

A single day's driving to London and back resulted in this stuff everywhere the wind would carry it:

 

[Atari]

LOL I know the pain Mrk, I did a 350-400 mile round trip through London and by the time I got back to Birmingham, the wheels were beyond recognition Gave them a proper clean and finally got to use the Auto Finesse Iron Out I'd purchased weeks ago but never had a chance to use.

These are the Bi-Xenon's I should be fitting this week hopefully, can't wait to ditch the crappy halogens

 

[Kris_90]

Took my Astra for a service, timing belt and MOT today, found out it's got a leak in the gearbox. Anyone know if a leaking gearbox is likely to be expensive to fix?

 

[Bradmax57]

LOL I know the pain Mrk, I did a 350-400 mile round trip through London and by the time I got back to Birmingham, the wheels were beyond recognition Gave them a proper clean and finally got to use the Auto Finesse Iron Out I'd purchased weeks ago but never had a chance to use.

These are the Bi-Xenon's I should be fitting this week hopefully, can't wait to ditch the crappy halogens

Just seen a youtube video fitting those, looks pretty easy and pretty decent too

 

[N43SP33D]

just got myself a Sony XAV-601BT