What have you done to your car today?

In other news, the E30 is slowly getting put back together.

New brake pipes, hoses and fittings (already posted), new anti-roll-bar bushes (absolute pig to fit, whats wrong with having two bolts??), new control arms, new tie rod ends, new steering rack boots, new drop links (MK3 Mondeo Estate rear ones, which eliminate the lower bracket that bolts to the control arm)

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Ticked over 50,000 on the way to get it MOT'd, only taken 28 years to hit that milestone. Don't worry though, if last years use is anything to go by it will take another 75 years to hit 100k :o

EDIT - Another pass :cool: As Clarkson would say "WHAT A MACHINE!"
 
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The E30 is back in one piece and back on the floor, took it for a quick drive around the private car park area adjoining our house (no MOT) and unfortunately was met with an odd clicking noise with wheel rotation.

I assumed it was a handbrake component or something which I had put in incorrectly, but on further investigation it appears the passenger side outer CV joint has failed!! :(

They don't do much on a RWD car I suppose, and are very old, so I guess this round of removing and re-installing finished it off...

Balls... More waiting!

£1200 + VAT for a new pair from BMW... I recon I'll go with some aftermarket ones for £120~ Geoff. :p
 
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Went to fit new front brake discs and pads to the E46 (and clean up the calipers) so I could book it in for an MOT. Didn't get very far because as I was jacking the car up I heard/saw little specs of rust falling from the jacking point just as the wheel was about to leave the ground. Quickly lowered the car back on to the ground and stuck my head under the jacking point area to confirm my fears that it is indeed rusty there, and I managed to create a small hole around the jack point pad :(

The jacking point itself hasn't collapsed (yet!) like a lot seem to when used to lift the car, but I'm thinking the plastic sill covers are hiding a lot of nastiness. If I get chance tomorrow, I'll take the sill cover off and see if there is anything left under there. I have precisely zero knowledge about welding, but the car drives too well to send for scrap and I'm sure would otherwise pass an MOT, so there is some thinking to be done.

Fortunately, my other car is doing alright at the moment, so I'm not without a car at least.
 
Finished the interior refit yesterday - carpets, centre/middle/rear console, front panels and fascia, stereo, and the rear speaker cover trim cross member. Oh and the seats of course, which needed two goes as I trapped the SRS activator cables on both sides.

Also scrubbed the rear plastic window on the soft top, including unzipping and taking it down to clear the velcro and corners where green gunk has accumulated. This car is now the tidiest it has been since I owned it by a long way.

Cleaning the exterior and engine bay tomorrow, then need to take photos and list it for sale :o

Edit: only had these bits left over! No idea what the white bar is but it turned up on the driver's side floor immediately after fitting the last bolt to the seat.

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LuckyBenski said:
I ****ing hate it. It has always behaved like absolute rubbish for me, to the point of being unusable. And imgbb has always been really easy for me and reliable. It seems like people have the complete opposite experience to me.
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Literally never had an issue, it just works. :p

Weird. Give 'er another go!
 
Akagi said:
Literally never had an issue, it just works. :p

Weird. Give 'er another go!
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Logged in and this is the first thing I saw.

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It should have blackjack and hookers also.

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Akagi said:
The pictures weren't worth waiting for :( :p
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Jonnycoupe said:
I was so excited too!
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I never misled anyone, it was just all the waiting that built it up :D

Yesterday I finished off cleaning under the bonnet, rear engine bay, and a general clean. Borrowed a pressure washer as the amount of debris in nooks and crannies was unreal. Water spotting is a nightmare! Just need to treat the soft top now and get some decent photos.

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