What have you done to your car today?

On Holiday · 2 Feb 2017 at 21:19

Had a brand new set of Pilot Sport 4s put on and had some unexpected oversteer in my FN2 yesterday.

Checked pressures today... all between 37-40.... Rather than my usual 30 / 32.

Akagi · 2 Feb 2017 at 21:29

Wheel bearing done in the Skoda, and an MOT which it passed with an advisory for a chip on the windscreen and some of the bulbs in the high-level not working.

Ready to sell now. Its like a new car without the bearing noise. For what it cost I should have done it ages ago!

Gaygle · 3 Feb 2017 at 01:16

Plenty O'Toole said:
Had a brand new set of Pilot Sport 4s put on and had some unexpected oversteer in my FN2 yesterday.

Checked pressures today... all between 37-40.... Rather than my usual 30 / 32.

New tyres are also verrrry slippery.

On Holiday · 3 Feb 2017 at 08:40

Gaygle said:
New tyres are also verrrry slippery.

I expected this, didn't expect them to be massively over-inflated too

Have since done ~300 miles now so should be scrubbed in.

Akagi · 3 Feb 2017 at 09:25

Err. The aux belt snapped on the Skoda on the way to work and now I'm back home again. Collecting a new aux belt in a minute...

I think the freewheel clutch on the alternator has done the same thing as last time to the belt...

Better sort that out too then. Bah. Everyone at work thinks I'm bunking off because they know I have other cars, and to them the fact that I don't have commuting cover on the other cars is somehow a poor excuse. :confused:

Sods law etc. If someone hits me on the way in I bet my colleagues won't offer to pay and fix the resulting mess!

Cleisthenes · 3 Feb 2017 at 09:36

Acme said:
Err. The aux belt snapped on the Skoda on the way to work and now I'm back home again. Collecting a new aux belt in a minute...

I think the freewheel clutch on the alternator has done the same thing as last time to the belt...

Better sort that out too then. Bah. Everyone at work thinks I'm bunking off because they know I have other cars, and to them the fact that I don't have commuting cover on the other cars is somehow a poor excuse.

Sods law etc. If someone hits me on the way in I bet my colleagues won't offer to pay and fix the resulting mess!

Ouch! When are you going to start dailying the 5?

Akagi · 3 Feb 2017 at 09:38

When I sell the Skoda I guess! I have 3.5 months to get shot of it before insurance renewal time.

Armageus · 3 Feb 2017 at 09:46

Acme said:
and to them the fact that I don't have commuting cover on the other cars is somehow a poor excuse.

eh? thought they were on a multicar policy? and even if not, surely the price difference between Social only, and Social+Commuting isn't much anyway. Normally it's only Business use that bumps it up by any significant margin.

Firestar_3x · 3 Feb 2017 at 09:50

Nothing is straightforward or understandable in the strange world of Acme.

grudas · 3 Feb 2017 at 09:51

yup social + commuting added nothing to my other policy.. going from social only.

ChrisD. · 3 Feb 2017 at 09:52

I was another £100 to add commuting on my DC5.

Rybo89 · 3 Feb 2017 at 10:22

It is a poor excuse. Ide be telling you to get a bus or a taxi.

Maccapacca · 3 Feb 2017 at 11:06

Steinbauer'd the Ranger. Should rip the tarmac off the road now. Sorry should be more economical.

Cleisthenes · 3 Feb 2017 at 11:27

What does that boost the power to?

Maccapacca · 3 Feb 2017 at 11:33

Cleisthenes said:
What does that boost the power to?

Meant to be + 20% so 200 > 240 with a pinch of salt

Cleisthenes · 3 Feb 2017 at 11:37

Maccapacca said:
Meant to be + 20% so 200 > 240 with a pinch of salt

Diesel powaaahhh!

Akagi · 3 Feb 2017 at 14:28

I couldn't get insured for commuting on the BMW. And I never thought about it for the MX5.

Bimma is on its own modified classic policy.

If I tried to get a bus or a train I might arrive before the end of the day if I'm lucky. A taxi ride to where I work would probably cost more than I earn in a day. Plus I work for an IT company so I can just as easily work from home. Commuting is pretty pointless tbh.

Kaeo · 3 Feb 2017 at 15:30

Not washed it again because I can't be bothered - 1 month so far.

RIP bodywork to salt.

rodenal · 3 Feb 2017 at 15:39

Kaeo said:
Not washed it again because I can't be bothered - 1 month so far. RIP bodywork to salt.

Get a fright every now and then when the bottom third of the sills of mine look a bit brown. Then I give them a wipe, realise it's mostly just dirt and carry on

Gaygle · 3 Feb 2017 at 15:59

As suspected, my issue was again the bulb was at fault.

Like the others that have failed before it, the centre bulbous bit has gone very, very cloudy (as per below), whereas in the new bulb the bulbous bit is completely clear apart from one side of it which has some very slightly residue in it (as all the new bulbs did).

Failed bulb:

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