What have you done to your car today?

Dalto123 said:
Late reply again, sorry! Strangely enough I ended up going down an entirely different route and bought myself an Abarth 500 a few weeks ago. The idea of a hot (well, moderately warm in this case) hatch appealed, and after a test drive I was smitten.

They're not perfect, but jolly good fun. It's quite 'old school' with the turbo boost. So far 4 people have driven it and all have commented along the lines of 'it's faster than I thought' :D

Most important thing is that it's got a bit of charm, like the Elise did, so I'm pretty happy with it...For now :D
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Love those little things they are just little machines of smiles, even make quite a cool little growley noise. :D got some pics?
 
Dalto123 said:
Late reply again, sorry! Strangely enough I ended up going down an entirely different route and bought myself an Abarth 500 a few weeks ago. The idea of a hot (well, moderately warm in this case) hatch appealed, and after a test drive I was smitten.

They're not perfect, but jolly good fun. It's quite 'old school' with the turbo boost. So far 4 people have driven it and all have commented along the lines of 'it's faster than I thought' :D

Most important thing is that it's got a bit of charm, like the Elise did, so I'm pretty happy with it...For now :D
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I still chuckle every time one drives past. They have great sounding exhausts!
 
after every single wash, one drive gets its pebble dashed again with little spots. and tar remover removes all the wax so i have to do that again. just a pain
 
Vince said:
Yes, yes I do.. I simply smelted the wheel and re-cast it :D seriously though the damage wasn't actually that bad and didn't make it that far through as to damage the bead area so I ground out the damage knocked out the slight buckle on the bead with big hammers. After that I used alloy epoxy to rebuild the profile and away I went :p

I didn't use one of those dodgey epoxy sticks I used one that comes in a tub and small tube of hardner which I now can't seem to Google.
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Fair enough. I really had no idea how wheel refurbs worked :o
Hats off on the refurb in any case :)
 
mjt said:
Fair enough. I really had no idea how wheel refurbs worked :o
Hats off on the refurb in any case :)
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Honestly I have no idea if the pro's use the same kind of method. A quick Google seems to sugest that they do. Grind out damage, fill, sand and finally lay some paint down. Job done, first set of wheels I did took ages, nowdays I can do a set in a few hours, a little bit more if I want them perfect.

I did the centres of the BBS split rims on the Porsche and they are pretty much spot on.
 
Acme said:
Well, I mean yeah. I don't plan on snailing it for probably 18 months. :p
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Planning on swapping to an engine with the exhaust on the passenger side then are you? There is a reason people don't bother turboing the M20 in the UK...because it doesn't fit and is pointless if you do managed to mash in some small turbo.
 
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