What have you done to your car today?

My TTRS is in for a service. Coolant has dropped just below minimum, can’t say I’ve ever seen that before which worries me slightly. Brake fluid is due for a change, but then they can do that either this or the next service when the rear brakes get changed. Trying not to go to crazy on this service since a) I’m going to get it serviced again in November to bring in line with MOT and b) about to change all 4 tyres that’ll set me back at least 1k.
 
jaybee said:
Wondered how much it would cost to get my keyed 3/4 panel fixed. Why do people key cars. :( We have no enemies and park courteously. It's a Renault Clio ffs. Not a car to be particularly jealous of.
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Yaayuh! said:
People are dicks.
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Sadly this pretty much sums it up :( So much damage for a moment of dickish mindlessness. I had my S2000 keyed front to back in a work car park one time, no idea who I ****** off but that was £1.5k repair on a £6k car back then :(
 
Due MOT soon so just deciding if to address every advisory from last time around or if to do the bare minimum and see if it fails on any of the previous advisories or if they stay as advisories :) Complete opposite to how I normally treat cars so struggling with that a little, but 100% won't get any of that spend back and unlikely to be hanging onto it for too long.
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Posted this the other day about my cheap daily 320D Touring in the Show us your motors thread. Turns out I'm no good at bangernomics... new rear discs & pads, new rear shocks & new brake lines ordered from AutoDoc. New windscreen goes in on Monday (although when did they stop coming to you, that's the real pain!)

Last MOT had 13 advisories and the parts I've ordered cover 11 of them, remaining ones are corroded rear axle (I think fussy tester, only surface rust) and front bump stops damaged (still there & haven't noticed issues from them)
 
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GhostWKD said:
Sadly this pretty much sums it up :( So much damage for a moment of dickish mindlessness. I had my S2000 keyed front to back in a work car park one time, no idea who I ****** off but that was £1.5k repair on a £6k car back then :(
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Should be a law to allow us to key their face in response.
I hate how we just can't have anything nice.
I'm not sure to be fair if it has been keyed or if it is where someone/thing has scraped past it. Could be a cyclist's brake lever that went up against it. No pics to hand.

I saw this vid below (mine is a white car too) where he basically uses a paint pen to fill it in and sand it back. Makes it look easy...I'd probably c0ck it up.

 
jaybee said:
I saw this vid below (mine is a white car too) where he basically uses a paint pen to fill it in and sand it back. Makes it look easy...I'd probably c0ck it up.

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They always make it look easy, but guarantee you won't get anywhere near as good a finish.

For a start it's worth a go with farecla scratch remover or Maguire's scratch X, to see how much it minimises the damage.

A full body shop repair will easily be £1000+, but a smart repair might be £500 if you are lucky.

Obviously the downside is that you might get it repaired only to have it damaged again next week (if it was either a targeted attack or there are yobs etc regularly in the area) - hence I'd look at the scratch removal products as a first step
 
Car serviced. On the one hand, the service went well and was cheaper than expected. On the other I had pothole damage and a tyre split to the cord, so an undrivable car until I can get new tyres on Tuesday.
 
Stopped off on my way into the office to check pressures and add air since the TPMS popped up.

All fine except the rear left - 24PSI

I will keep an eye on it and compare it with the other pressures to determine if it is slowly losing pressure, It will be a shame if so since the tyres have barely covered 1000 miles.

 
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Drove the wife’s mini while mine sits on the drive waiting for tyres. Takes some getting used to, where is my braking power? At least it’s only until tomorrow. Can’t wait to get 4 new tyres on mine.
 
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Today and yesterday I've been taking a look at my brakes. It's a bit weird because the car is stopping absolutely fine and I can't feel any brake-related troubles, but my rear brakes look like this:


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This all started over the Xmas period when I wasn't using my car. Discs looked absolutely fine up until I took some time off work and then I just didn't drive my car for a while. Over a period of about 4 weeks the most I did was a single 30 mile trip. When I had to do a drive to Ireland in mid January I checked over the car and saw the brakes were like that. Obviously a little bit of surface corrosion is no big deal and it cleans itself up, but the rust on the outer edge of the discs will not clear up no matter what, even if I do some heavy braking. Those pics are after having driven the car nearly 2k miles since I first saw the problem.

Perhaps more concerning is that I only put those discs and pads on the car back in August so they're far from worn. I did clean the car a few days in to my time off and then left it so that's probably what caused it, or at least significantly contributed to it, along with me living near the cost. So yesterday I took the rear calipers off, cleaned everything up, lightly sanded the brake carriers and the pads down and put it all back together.



You can clearly see on the pad where the areas contacting the rusted patches of disc are. Today I did the same to the front brakes as I noticed one of the front discs also has some rust buildup that won't clear. Hopefully now I've done that, a bit of harsh braking might just clear it up. Just need to go out for a drive when it's quiet to try it out. It is strange though, I can't figure out why it wouldn't just clear up on its own. I guess the rust was just that severe and it compromised the pad material somehow.
 
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Pitting in the disc surface will take a while to be swept by the pad to be fair. Do several high speed to slow braking (not stopping) then drive to cool off and should clear the bulk of it off.
 
Took an afternoon off work
Limped to the tyre place
Got told their machine is broken and etyres should have emailed you
He sorted with them to rebook for sunday
Limped home with a tyre that now also has a small vibration
Will never use etyres again and will go direct in future.
Why is life so difficult.
 
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Today and yesterday I've been taking a look at my brakes. It's a bit weird because the car is stopping absolutely fine and I can't feel any brake-related troubles, but my rear brakes look like this:


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This all started over the Xmas period when I wasn't using my car. Discs looked absolutely fine up until I took some time off work and then I just didn't drive my car for a while. Over a period of about 4 weeks the most I did was a single 30 mile trip. When I had to do a drive to Ireland in mid January I checked over the car and saw the brakes were like that. Obviously a little bit of surface corrosion is no big deal and it cleans itself up, but the rust on the outer edge of the discs will not clear up no matter what, even if I do some heavy braking. Those pics are after having driven the car nearly 2k miles since I first saw the problem.

Perhaps more concerning is that I only put those discs and pads on the car back in August so they're far from worn. I did clean the car a few days in to my time off and then left it so that's probably what caused it, or at least significantly contributed to it, along with me living near the cost. So yesterday I took the rear calipers off, cleaned everything up, lightly sanded the brake carriers and the pads down and put it all back together.



You can clearly see on the pad where the areas contacting the rusted patches of disc are. Today I did the same to the front brakes as I noticed one of the front discs also has some rust buildup that won't clear. Hopefully now I've done that, a bit of harsh braking might just clear it up. Just need to go out for a drive when it's quiet to try it out. It is strange though, I can't figure out why it wouldn't just clear up on its own. I guess the rust was just that severe and it compromised the pad material somehow.
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Had this a few times before on various cars - tried numerous things to correct it but the only thing which has worked is to replace the discs and pads. Like you say, it doesn't cause any discernible issues with the braking, just seems to be more "unsightly" than anything. maybe wait until pads need to be changed then do the discs at the same time?
 
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