What have you done to your car today?

Jonny ///M · 17 Apr 2020 at 21:33

no idea what said:
@Jonny ///M nicely done on the clutch. Better the devil you know as they say. Car might not be worth a lot but you know it and with a good clutch you can have plenty more life out of it.

Cheers, happy with how it went.

Had what I felt like a stutter/misfire under load before and I thought coil pack or compression issue but it seems to rev freely.

Must have been due to brake fluid getting onto it maybe.

Akagi · 17 Apr 2020 at 22:59

Not often you see a brand new car with a camera worth more than it is strapped to the front.

Jester* · 18 Apr 2020 at 15:36

Changed cabin filter.

Oh and fitted a Corksport adjustable shifter and solid bushes to MPS.

andy_mk3 · 18 Apr 2020 at 23:15

Cookeh said:
Are they still around? Could do with one in all this nonsense, and it seems ery reasonable cost wise. No point in me spending double what a new battery would cost me for a CTEK one to be used once.

I picked mine up about a month ago. It's had loads of use! It's currently charging my neighbours battery

kurosagi01 · 19 Apr 2020 at 10:38

Jester* said:
Changed cabin filter.

Oh and fitted a Corksport adjustable shifter and solid bushes to MPS.

How are you finding the shifter bushes? I've been considering getting mine changed myself.

Jester* · 19 Apr 2020 at 12:13

kurosagi01 said:
How are you finding the shifter bushes? I've been considering getting mine changed myself.

I have literally only run down the road to my local supermarket, as I only fitted them yesterday. But the shift felt a lot less rubbery that is for sure.

I'll be able to give you a bit more of an opinion tomorrow when I go to work and back!

Russinating · 19 Apr 2020 at 13:31

Acme said:
Not often you see a brand new car with a camera worth more than it is strapped to the front.

It's close but the car stills pips it I think, just because the camera's so stripped down to reduce weight. Certainly squeaky bum time when we take it out...

King4aDay · 19 Apr 2020 at 13:35

Russinating said:
It's close but the car stills pips it I think, just because the camera's so stripped down to reduce weight. Certainly squeaky bum time when we take it out...

Not to be 'that guy', but presumably you're not using it on public roads? Can't imagine it's legal if things like hood emblems aren't!

Clarkey · 19 Apr 2020 at 14:11

Why not? Film crews use this kind of thing all the time.

King4aDay · 19 Apr 2020 at 16:33

Clarkey said:
Why not? Film crews use this kind of thing all the time.

Just thinking that with things like mascots, although not illegal per se, they have to mounted in such a way that they wouldn't cause additional injury to someone if struck by the vehicle. I'm pretty sure that camera mount would nicely mangle my shins if driven into!

Dis86 · 19 Apr 2020 at 18:17

Clarkey said:
Why not? Film crews use this kind of thing all the time.

Aye, typically with an escort car in front or on closed roads.

BigRazer93 · 20 Apr 2020 at 01:48

Took the plugs out to see how they were burning on my tt 1.8t bam engine, also gapped them to the correct setting

King4aDay · 20 Apr 2020 at 13:39

Finally got around to checking the throttle pot on the wedge (been meaning to do this since I got it). Idle was reading 0.260v - should be 0.325+/-0.25. Two minutes later and it was properly calibrated and seems to have instantly cured a flat spot I was getting on WOT. Hurrah!

And because its a TVR (built in one-in-one-out fault policy), I then noticed a hole in the valley gasket :mad:

Gibbo · 21 Apr 2020 at 12:13

Done plenty of stuff over past week on S2000 but just thought I'd share Admiral are refunding their customers £25 per car insured, so getting £75 back from them for driving less because of lock down.

King4aDay · 21 Apr 2020 at 12:18

That's a better outcome than the £75 I got charged for cancelling the insurance on my 350gt!

inflames · 21 Apr 2020 at 12:40

Replaced the central locking actuator in my wife’s Mazda 6 today.

Phemo · 21 Apr 2020 at 13:00

Stuck my car's battery on charge yesterday. Took about 7 hours to fully charge the 85Ah battery in my car using a Ctek MXS 5.0 which likely means it was down to around 50-60% capacity, was surprised it had got that low but I guess with it being a diesel and the short supermarket only runs over the last few weeks, it's taken out more juice than the alternator has been able to put in. Stuck the wife's car on charge this morning and that's still charging too so likely the same sort of situation there.

While that's on charge I thought I'd investigate my rear brakes. The handbrake itself needed pulling up quite high (BMW handbrakes seem to be rubbish) so I've been meaning to adjust it for ages but more importantly, a couple of times I've had the handbrake stick after starting the car up and reversing off the drive. The first time I just pulled the lever and released it and it was ok, the second time gave way after I gave it some beans. Wasn't sure if just adjusting the handbrake would take care of this or not but I started off with sorting that out and now I've got a nice 4 click handbrake so that's all good.

While I had the wheels off I thought I'd just take the calipers and discs off to check out the handbrake shoes. Did one side perfectly but on the other side I got caught out by the damn disc locator bolt which was clearly done up stupidly tight by some moron. Tried drilling it out but my drill bits are clearly crap as it barely seemed to have touched the bolt. Have to wait for some new bits to arrive to take care of that one.

Howard · 21 Apr 2020 at 14:26

Gibbo said:
Done plenty of stuff over past week on S2000 but just thought I'd share Admiral are refunding their customers £25 per car insured, so getting £75 back from them for driving less because of lock down.

Neat. I hope they contact me asking how I'd like to be refunded first, as the card I used to pay for my premium no longer exists.

Gibbo · 21 Apr 2020 at 14:31

Howard said:
Neat. I hope they contact me asking how I'd like to be refunded first, as the card I used to pay for my premium no longer exists.

Check their website, their is an FAQ which answers stuff like this I believe.

Clarkey · 21 Apr 2020 at 14:58

Weird they are giving money back, I read a news article about car insurance shooting up this morning. I renewed mine just as this lockdown was kicking off and I ended up paying nearly £100 more than last year. A friend who renewed not long before that also said his was quite a bit dearer too.