What have you done to your car today?

Took the alloys off and used a 4mm drill bit to clear out the blocked holes on all 4 drilled discs and then gave the alloys a full clean, polish and seal while they were off. I also gave the calipers a good clean, ordered some new rear Brembo pads (getting low) and started to worry about the tiny stress cracks that look like they might be starting to appear on my front discs (around 1-3mm long and nowhere near the holes?)
 
Csr was serviced this week. All is well except I had too pay for two new wiper blades. £36....which didn't seem too bad from audi and the windscreen clears water much better now (no streaks etc).
 
Screw in tyre.
Seems to be holding air after a plug was put in for £10. Result.

Noticed rear pads need changing tho.
 
Rotated the tyres and found I'd managed to pick up a nail:
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Still holding pressure so it'll do until the local tyre place is open on Monday morning.
 
Blackhawk47 said:
Csr was serviced this week. All is well except I had too pay for two new wiper blades. £36....which didn't seem too bad from audi and the windscreen clears water much better now (no streaks etc).
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£36 for two wiper blades is very pricey is it not? I imagine bosch or valeo will be the oem supplier anyway for audi and you can get their wipers for half the price.
 
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Two new tyres for the back, so got them to put the fronts on the back and put new ones on the front. Tracking check, to be told my lower arm rear bush is shot so need to get some poly ones fitted and my drop links while I'm at it. This is going to be an expensive month! :(
 
acemastr said:
Isn't that a brand new car? I don't even have to pay for brake pads for 2 years with my new car.
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Total inclusive maintenance is common in the USA at retail - many manufacturers offer it. It is very rare in the UK outside of company focused leasing arrangements therefore it is quite normal to have to pay for items like that.
 
Not technically today but yesterday as well :p
- Modified the seat side mounts so I could drop the seats half an inch lower (Plus recline slightly further)
- started removing sound deadening from the boot area and re-spraying it inside to get it looking smarter
- Stripped rear calipers down and cleaned them up and re-greased as they kept seizing
- Fitted EBC Yellow pads on the rear
- Washed it
- Put some oil in it, damn valve seals :D
 
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Fitted new Brembo rear pads, quick and painless. The brake pedal has firmed back up and the car feels like the brake balance is more stable again.
 
What turbo this time, GT28?

I just replaced the broken microphone for my hands free, when refitting the stereo (to avoid rattles) I pulled on the wire and broke it somewhere, soon found out it stopped working when nobody could hear anything when I used the handsfree. Fitted the mic to a different location this time, fairly OEM looking, all wires hidden and zip tied out the way and the mic is under the centre of the instrument cowl. Previously had it by the A pillar trim and it picked up too much wind noise and looked a bit crap.

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Pic of the dash install...Alpine IVE-535BT. So glad double din can be integrated so neatly in this car :)

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