What have you done to your car today?

Finally got my new rotors :D

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Acme said:
In fairness to them, it looks like the wheel has been refinished in the past and it wasn't prepared properly beforehand, so it has been easily chipped away.

That isn't the way for them to deal with it though.
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More than likely, a simple explanation and sorry would have done, not hoping I didn't notice it.
 
Admitting it and saying "that's what happens" is even more retarded than outright denying it. Had exactly the same thing happen to me a few years ago when I was abroad, they went the extra mile and used the wrong colour touch up paint to try to hide it :rolleyes:

Oddly, my local place back in SE London are excellent and never chip the alloy even when it's had a DIY refurb done. The place looks a bit chavvy and dodgy but they actually do an excellent job to the extent I'd only use another place if I absolutely had to.
 
Didn't want to bother starting a new thread but thought I would post in here in case someone was looking - just got a new car which has full LED headlights (which I have never had before) and noticed that there is a slight purple tinge around the top edge/fringe of the beam. Is that normal? The light is a brilliant crisp white, but just has this slight purple fringe around it. I assume it is something to do with refraction etc but wanted to check. I quite like it but I just wanted to make sure it wasn't wrong :p
 
Welder out again today. Was noticing a few knocks and bangs from the back when accelerating out of the hairpin at Croft the other week. Suspected something engine mount related as I've had to beef up the mounting point for the front torque mount before, turns out the entire cross member for the front mount had started pulling itself apart. Have got most of it welded up again now but have had to take a break whilst a thunderstorm passes through.
 
Drove it round the Peak District. And then went again. And again.

First proper chance to take it out into the hills and give it some (Mrs was working, and she hates heights so with her on board thrashing it round hills is a no go)

Suffice to say I had a fun day, even if I did use the best part of a tank of fuel :rolleyes::p
 
Resprayed the heavily stone chipped lower bumper on my ST220, i'd done it once but they got the paint wrong so it had a hint of purple, but it seems spot on this time round, not bad for a rattle can job :)

One thing I have learned whilst painting is masking off the surrounding area makes things a hell of a lot harder to blend in, hence the sheet to keep paint of the lights, grille & plate only. It's best to just buff off any overspray afterwards. Work to the edge of a panel or don't bother masking off & just cover adjacent panels.

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Good work blends in very well! My 220 bumper is covered in stone chips from the motorways it's got to be the worst car I've owned for that although the front end is rather low on them
 
That's looking pretty damn good. I need to attempt similar on mine - that also sits quite low and with 30k+ a year mine is absolutely peppered in stone chips so I can't bring myself to pay for a full respray on it. I doubt I'll get it looking that good, but just a little less crap would be good.

On the subject of mine, I fixed the handbrake light issue I mentioned earlier in the thread so other than the hassle of taking the whole armrest area to bits it was a simple case of soldering the wire back in.

However my stop/start warning icon is still appearing. It doesn't come on when I first start the car, but only after I've driven for a while and when I first come to a stop. The last 2 days I've done a total of four 61 mile trips and on all 4 of them the warning light has only appeared at 57 miles into the journey, once I get off the motorway and sit at my first roundabout.

The car always starts perfectly every time, even if it's been left alone for a couple of days. However I thought I'd check the battery out with a multimeter and I'm seeing 12.25v when the car is idle. That's a tad low as I think 12.4-12.6v is meant to be the ideal range, but would being 12.25v be low enough to cause stop/start warnings? Just want to be sure that battery is on its way to being completely knackered before I splash out £200+ on a new battery (stupid AGM batteries) and getting it coded to the car.

Edit: From a quick bit of searching I'm under the impression that 12.25v does indeed mean it's knackered and that I should probably get it sorted soon. Every journey I do in that car is a longish motorway blast and at the moment I'm averaging 600 miles a week so it's not that low because it's not been used much or that it's being used for short journeys :)
 
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Popped round a workmate's house today before the rain started and we swapped out my front pads and calipers along with fluid. Installed Mintex M1144 pads, and ATE TYP200 fluid. Ended up taking a couple of hours which was ideal.

Oh and his garage is pretty mental. Everything has its place, everything is organised, decades of tools neatly arranged and all the tools for any job needed along with motoring merch and historical imagery around the walls. Mini drinks fridge as well :D

Also sprayed the disk edges with some Hammerite, as they were going brown again from the last track day.

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Gotta put my old brown calipers along with OEM pads up for sale now I guess. Pads aree still like new. Probably get around £200 for the lot. Calipers just need a lick of high heat rattle can paint.

Can already feel the immediate bite improvements of the Mintex pads even though they are not bedded in yet. Stronger than bedded in standard pads, and appear to be heading in the direction of being better than PFC Z Rated n general as well, yet costing less.
 
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