What have you done to your car today?

Reverse failed on the auto box. To have the box rebuilt is ~£1500 including fitting, fluids and filter.

Car with fault is worth £1000 at most.

Car with working gearbox is worth around £2000.

I'm confident it's worth much more in bits than whole, although appreciate it takes some time and effort to break it up.

The main motivator behind breaking was I want to keep a few bits for my e39 Touring. For instance, I fitted 4 x Goodyear F1A2s and BMW OEM discs and pads ~500 miles before the box failed. These will be used on the Touring in due course. There are also other parts I've replaced on the Saloon which I'll transfer over to the Touring as preventative maintenance (DISA Valve, Refurbished VANOS, recent CCV system etc). Plus any other parts or trim that are in better condition on the Saloon than the Touring.

It does feel a bit wrong braking it as it's in such good nick.
 
Fitted my two new HT leads today. This coupled with my old plugs refitted seem to have cured my cars hesitant acceleration.
So it was either the new plugs or the other HT leads. Just happy that it's now running ok though :)
 
Not so much what i have done with my car but what i have done driving related today.

Driver awareness course. 4 hours of it.... 1 complete utter be11end who had a answer for everything even though his answers were 100% wrong everytime. I cannot even explain how much of a complete fat lump of tardness he was. Even both instructors told him to be quiet in the end.
 
Bought these to hang my exhaust after some Halfords ones haven't last at all well :(
Bummer is, I thought they were race spec Polyurethane ones, but they seem just like normal rubber but blue, oh well, might last a bit longer hopefully!

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Tesla said:
Reverse failed on the auto box. To have the box rebuilt is ~£1500 including fitting, fluids and filter.

Car with fault is worth £1000 at most.

Car with working gearbox is worth around £2000.

I'm confident it's worth much more in bits than whole, although appreciate it takes some time and effort to break it up.

The main motivator behind breaking was I want to keep a few bits for my e39 Touring. For instance, I fitted 4 x Goodyear F1A2s and BMW OEM discs and pads ~500 miles before the box failed. These will be used on the Touring in due course. There are also other parts I've replaced on the Saloon which I'll transfer over to the Touring as preventative maintenance (DISA Valve, Refurbished VANOS, recent CCV system etc). Plus any other parts or trim that are in better condition on the Saloon than the Touring.

It does feel a bit wrong braking it as it's in such good nick.
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Can't you source another box from a scrappy or something
 
Installed the Xcarlink in to my Accord Yesturday, a lot of butchering just to have the ability to play music off my phone through the standard headunit, worth it though.
 
Fitted yellow foglight film. Did a crap job, some creases towards the edge, but it'll do for a while until I cba to do it again. Looks great against the blue paintwork.
 
It's the only phone that'll run my ex-rally teams "Racechrono" software with the performance figures still included. The newer Android version removed them :confused: so I've had to buy an N95 just for that!
 
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