What have you done to your car today?

LizardKing said:
Its a crazy design (admittedly very clever!), rubber is always going to perish so why put it somewhere that could potential do a lot of damage, that bit of pulley weighs about a 1-2kg, not something you want loose in the vicinity of the cam belt!
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Common on Mitsus of this age, I know Colts were recalled because of disintegrating crank pulleys.
 
Three lovely scratches from front to back on the passenger side of the slowlo, including the edge of the rear windscreen, door handle has a nice deep gouge in it, and the mirror shell is scratched to hell.

After some experimenting I can see that the scratches will polish out to the point where they aren't noticeable, and the door handle and mirror shell are cheap fixes, but that isn't the point.

Utter *****.

Narrow road with bushes down each side and passing places, van coming the other way, no passing places on my side but he has one on his, he ignores it and plows on ahead, I had to step on the brakes and put the side of the car in a thorn bush. He didn't even slow down.

So today, I have planted it in a bush, stood and looked at the side of my car in dismay, and experimented with some polish... Oh and bought a new rear wiper blade, but it isn't here yet. At the weekend I'll give it a wash and a bit of a polish and sort the wheels out. Maybe try a few things to get the plastics and maybe even the tyres to look a bit blacker. :)
 
Westyfield2 said:
ARGH I HATE CARS.

Took the bonnet off the Westfield. Removed a sensor. Went to put the blanking bolt in instead.... ARGH CAN'T FIND THE BOLT. Search through the jamjars of assorted bolts and can't find one that fits. Swear a bit. Measure the bolt thread size so I know what bolt to buy in town tomorrow. Go to put the bonnet back on, and the damn thing won't fit on. Not even attempting to lock it, just can't put the bonnet on.

RAAAAGE. Don't you just hate it when it's 8PM and that quick 15min job isn't even finished yet.
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Is the bolt getting in the way of the bonnet fitting back on properly? :D
 
Don't really see the point in buying an mx-5 specifically for that tbh. You'll spend a lot of time on motorway, where it'll be noisy, cramped and underpowered.

Different story if you already owned and loved the car
 
commited said:
Is the bolt getting in the way of the bonnet fitting back on properly? :D
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Lol reminds me of a couple of weeks ago where I managed to lose my sunglasses inbetween opening the boot, getting something out and then closing it again. Annoyingly though when closing the boot it wouldn't shut properly. Thinking I'd got something caught in the latch when moving stuff around I opened the boot, nothing there so closed it again..harder. Boot still wouldn't shut......

I had to buy some new sunglasses :)
 
Yup, been there. Long journey back from the north and one of my lights stopped working. Went to close the bonnet. Wouldn't shut. Closed harder and crunch. Cover on the back of my headlights was still on top of the engine....
 
As long as you don't shut parts of your/a friends body in the boot/under the bonnet its not the end of the world. :p
 
Drove to Heathrow at 3.30am. Had a slight conflict of interest with a ************* great big owl, now the side of my car has a nice coating of bird feather grease on it :( I think it lived to tell the tale though!
 
almoststew1990 said:
Drove to Heathrow at 3.30am. Had a slight conflict of interest with a ************* great big owl, now the side of my car has a nice coating of bird feather grease on it :( I think it lived to tell the tale though!
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crazy birds!!!! there was this pheasant that randomly appeared on the common near my parents house that developed a habit for chasing anything that moved!! we'd be driving about 10-20 down the track and it would just appear out of no where and then run along side the car next to the front wheel, sometimes jumping up, sometimes trying to get in front.... when we'd get home if we walked around it was fine... would kinda just follow you... but pick up any face (i.e. jog) and it would try and fly up and grab you with it's claws o.O :confused:

eventually tempted fate too many times and while running along side it just ran under the car. he did survive as we saw him run from the track off onto the grass/bracken from the giant pile of feathers that were left in the road. don't think we saw him much after that. probably made din dins for the foxes.


also had a barn owl fly straight into my bedroom window :p (he got double glazing to the face and scared the poop outta me! )
 
rodenal said:
Don't really see the point in buying an mx-5 specifically for that tbh. You'll spend a lot of time on motorway, where it'll be noisy, cramped and underpowered.

Different story if you already owned and loved the car
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I want to buy a drop top to do it in, I want something cheap and reliable. I've always wanted an MX5 but don't really think the UK has the climate to justify one for all year round plus my mates would probably take the **** for driving one! Will be buying the car this month then selling end of September when I get back from the trip.

Did think Honda S2000 but they are twice the price for anything worth having.

Was also hoping to avoid motorways wherever possible.

Muffin` said:
They like a drink those things
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Do about 30mpg surely? Gotta be better than the 24mpg average I'm getting from my Xsara VTS at the minute (yes its broke but cba to look into it :p)
 
Finally got round to giving the ST a well needed bath today.

Living on an un-adopted road, a couple of weeks of dry weather gets dust all over it then heavy rain splashes dirt up the sides and all over the wheels too :rolleyes:

All looking shiny again now though and quick once-around doing fluid levels and tyre pressures didn't throw up any niggles :D

Logo lights is the next biggie I'm investigating, wiring them in without dismantling the whole door is the challenge there.
 
Drove it to work, probably over due an oil change now but left it there for the weekend and took an XFRS home with a full tank and told to bring it back empty.
 
Picking up the new car tomorrow, it's had a new induction setup put on it tonight.

Can't wait

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