What have you done to your car today?

Callipers from rusty Black to self levelling Red, much fresher...

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I had the windows from the B pillar back tinted this morning, much improved. It now looks like the factory 90% tint option.
 
BennyC said:
15mm rear spacers. 12mm on the front too but not as picture worthy.

With a lick...
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Amazing what you can do with 15mm...

Have you thought about PPFing the rear door/quarter? The front wheel will likely kick up more stones now and pepper the rear bodywork which is quite wide.

When I was looking at M3s many had terrible stone chipping in these areas. The tiny bit of film between the wheel and door doesn't offer much protection sadly. My RS6 was the same, had I kept it, I would have repainted the panels and PPFed everything.
 
naefeart said:
Amazing what you can do with 15mm...

Have you thought about PPFing the rear door/quarter? The front wheel will likely kick up more stones now and pepper the rear bodywork which is quite wide.

When I was looking at M3s many had terrible stone chipping in these areas. The tiny bit of film between the wheel and door doesn't offer much protection sadly. My RS6 was the same, had I kept it, I would have repainted the panels and PPFed everything.
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Yeah it's on my radar, have a friend of a friend that does this so it should make it a bit more reasonable.

My first option is to actually DIY something discrete by way of a guard for the front wheels, for the sake of about £10 in materials for some extra plastic rivets etc. Presuming it doesn't look daft and is actually functional.

Considering the mileage (57k) the rear quarters don't actually have any marks on them at all... *touch wood*
 
Found another bloody stone chip this morning. :(

Seriously considering getting the front end PPF'ed after it's been repaired and had the paint correction in April.
 
I replaced the nearside front droplink this morning on the Range Rover. I hit what looked to be a minor pot hole but it turned out to be a crater and it absolutely obliterated the top bearing of the link - grease and shiny metal swarf evident on inspection but an almighty knocking sound was the immediate result.

Actually much less of a crappy task than I initially anticipated. I didn't have to get the angle grinder out which is so often the case with these things. Took less than 30 mins start to finish.
 
Fixed all the windscreen/boot washer jets that had slowly become clogged over winter- 2 out of 6 jets in the front and 1 out of two in the rear - using a pin and some patience, then re-aligned the rear ones for better coverage. Then I bought two new rear luggage compartment lights as mine had corroded due to an existing bootlid water leak (fixed much earlier) and was doing the same for my rear license plate lights when I dropped one of the attaching screws and it's disappeared into what must be a small localised black hole (it just bloody vanished) so had to pop to Halfords for a replacement screw.
 
I’d been having trouble with the wipers which I thought was the blades. Bosch, changed to Michelin and it was fine. Yesterday the wipers hit each other when cleaning the screen, it has a 24” driver and a 14” passenger wiper.

I altered the 14” wiper arm position on the spindle by 1 notch (the wiper motor I replaced 3 years ago when the original broke). Tested it using the hosepipe and it was fine. The wipers sat above the scuttle with around 15mm to spare.

Today use the car to go to work & back. Come home and the passenger wiper is parking touching the scuttle panel now. Can’t work out why/what’s wrong or changed in the past month that has been fine for 3 years, or why the parked position would alter so much. I checked one of the motor bolts yesterday and it was done up tight. The other requires removal of the whole scuttle panel which has single use clips.

My options are to ignore it, or move passenger wiper arm back where it was previously and to get around the wipers touching perhaps use a 23” driver side wiper so there’s a little more clearance from them catching each other.
 
Insured it!

Admiral Platinum. I have for years used private brokers and paid a big premium for 'peace of mind'. I worked out that right now the most likely cause of loss is nuclear attack, for which no one seems to want to cover us, so I went with a more normal insurer. Not the cheapest, that was £700 for the AMG GTR, but £980 with most of the stuff I needed added is better than the £1800 renewal I got from Manning....who also no longer cover track days.
 
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