What have you done to your car today?

There are some really annoying people.

Cars park along my road forcing you into the other side as you approach a bend. I have committed to the wrong side of the road as slightly after a car comes round the corner. So I pull in as best I can in the first tiny gap leaving as much space as I can and he sticks up two fingers. Geez.
 
CaptainRAVE said:
There are some really annoying people.

Cars park along my road forcing you into the other side as you approach a bend. I have committed to the wrong side of the road as slightly after a car comes round the corner. So I pull in as best I can in the first tiny gap leaving as much space as I can and he sticks up two fingers. Geez.
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If you were already passing parked vehicle(s) before he appeared, then you had right of way over him.
 
It really was a n00b mistake. :D the price you pay for rushing a job!
Nothing quite like a hard leason learned.

Gonna have to dismantle a ton of stuff to get a better angle but tbf that's was always gonna be needed with it being so stuck. :mad:
 
Jony27 said:
Fitted a more powerful gas struts for the boot.
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just make sure it doesn't torque the wiring loom going into the boot lid
... I put an additional tether on mine since the stabilus strut raised the boot further and faster than before.

LizardKing said:
Drained the gearbox, couldn't get the fill plug off
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another concern I had last time was pokeing the polythene tube of the fill syringe in, too far, such that it might get caught,
you don't want to disgorge it too close to the fill, but if it got stuck ....
 
Got the bolt off this time!
Using these.
https://www.toolstation.com/irwin-bolt-grip-nut-remover-set/p63045

They made short work of it without mangling it further. They are gonna come in very handy!

jpaul said:
another concern I had last time was pokeing the polythene tube of the fill syringe in, too far, such that it might get caught,
you don't want to disgorge it too close to the fill, but if it got stuck ....
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That would be a knighmare! The bottle I used has a aluminium section on the end, it hooks quite nicely in the fill hole!
 
Ceramic coated the Mustang... god I love this paint
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Got on three busses to go and get a new caliper after the old one (that I inspected only last week) grenaded into three parts. Before anyone points out I recently did the pads, the part that failed is the bolts holding the inner and outer calliper together - the ones you never separate as by this point the whole thing is fused anyway.

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Never seen a caliper do that before, but it’s been replaced with a new shiny silver one to go with the refurbed red one I did recently. No point spraying anything till the weather is warmer.

jpaul said:
just make sure it doesn't torque the wiring loom going into the boot lid
... I put an additional tether on mine since the stabilus strut raised the boot further and faster than before.

another concern I had last time was pokeing the polythene tube of the fill syringe in, too far, such that it might get caught,
you don't want to disgorge it too close to the fill, but if it got stuck ....
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Buy a bottle with integrated extendable fill spout? Syringes are the sort of thing that should have stopped being required decades ago unless you’re sadistic.
 
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vanpeebles said:
Rear valence half welded on, and the floor cross member welded into the mini.
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If you're doing anything mini related, then based on your location i'm guessing you're familiar with Ian and Lance at Green & White's? If not then you have one of the best mini specialists in the UK on your doorstep, unlike those who send cars thousands of miles to be worked on/prepped by them.
 
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