What have you done to your car today?

Akagi · 4 Apr 2021 at 17:40

Washed a couple of them.

Also took the Celica for a nice long drive. Was going to take some pictures of it all covered in dust, with a countryside backdrop, but my phone died...

gc123 · 4 Apr 2021 at 18:11

Frozennova said:
Manufacturers like to make it a ballache. I'm glad I got out of doing it 3 years ago. Ford seem enjoy doing thinks like "Oh this Focus has a heated screen and Sync but no auto wipers so lets put a screen it that has the Auto Wipers"

glad to see im not the only ex w/s fitter even if im a old one lol

jpaul · 4 Apr 2021 at 21:23

Found a dual purpose for the Porter cable DAP - hadn't used it on the car in ages
- polishing up some stainless steel with meguiars #83 on the espresso machine,

annoyingly some mice in the garage had eaten into some of the new foam pads

definitely looks like an interesting cleaning technique for the stainless cooker hood too.

any other ideas ?

Robzere31 · 5 Apr 2021 at 14:33

The law of sod strikes again

Spent 4 hours over the weekend washing & waxing the car, & even if I say so myself it looked really good.

Get up this morning & find a generous dumping of sand has been deposited all over it during the night.

pugheaven · 5 Apr 2021 at 14:40

Robzere31 said:
The law of sod strikes again

Spent 4 hours over the weekend washing & waxing the car, & even if I say so myself it looked really good.

Get up this morning & find a generous dumping of sand has been deposited all over it during the night.

Yep same here, washed a couple of days ago with the nice weather, so I washed it this morning to get all that crap off, did the 350z as well!

WOW, well, just after washing the SRT8 and also after 600 miles thought I'd check the catch can and astounded just what crap we all pump back into our air intakes clogging crap up!!!

Akagi · 5 Apr 2021 at 15:10

Wouldn't be an American V8 without a tonne of blow-by.

skaif · 5 Apr 2021 at 15:39

Have we been treated to any soundclips @pugheaven? Apologies if I missed it!

pugheaven · 5 Apr 2021 at 15:48

skaif said:
Have we been treated to any soundclips @pugheaven? Apologies if I missed it!

No not yet fella, apologies. Will need to get something uploaded...

squerble · 5 Apr 2021 at 16:05

Upgraded the car's infotainment system to Sync 3.4 via a tool as Ford only officially offer 3.0 to my car. All done and working, got a much more modern looking interface and also the latest version of the maps. It runs much faster now, so no idea why Ford won't offer it officially.

randomshenans · 5 Apr 2021 at 17:12

Got cleaned, wheels on and some more stickers. ARB kit needs to go on, B6 Bilstein shocks on the rear, poly exhaust hangers and some more orange hints and she's ready for her first outing... I think! Or shakedown at least

pugheaven · 5 Apr 2021 at 17:20

All washed as well...

Akagi · 5 Apr 2021 at 18:56

They should only be photographed with the tramps hat down.

Akagi · 5 Apr 2021 at 18:57

randomshenans said:
Got cleaned, wheels on and some more stickers. ARB kit needs to go on, B6 Bilstein shocks on the rear, poly exhaust hangers and some more orange hints and she's ready for her first outing... I think! Or shakedown at least

I actually like that.

randomshenans · 5 Apr 2021 at 20:16

Acme said:
I actually like that.

You know I did it as a bit of a laugh but it's actually been super fun and it's simple to work on... aside from ****** shock tops, but that's normal. A bit more orange, and she's going to get a spanking around a track

I say spanking... a light pat maybe

adam cool dude · 5 Apr 2021 at 20:29

Just make sure you have a massive mirror and your finger on the indicator. Having done a track day in a extremely slow car before (Bone stock MX5 on Chinese tyres) it becomes boring fast constantly pulling over.

randomshenans · 6 Apr 2021 at 10:24

adam cool dude said:
Just make sure you have a massive mirror and your finger on the indicator. Having done a track day in a extremely slow car before (Bone stock MX5 on Chinese tyres) it becomes boring fast constantly pulling over.

Extremely slow?! This thing has about 70hp! It'll rip their faces off...

deardevildude · 6 Apr 2021 at 12:18

randomshenans said:
Extremely slow?! This thing has about 70hp! It'll rip their faces off...

Id be careful with that power. Seems dangerous to have roaring on a track with how quick you'll be going.

-westy- · 6 Apr 2021 at 13:41

Taken it in for Clutch Slave Cylinder replacement. Along with a new clutch at the same time, makes sense, as it's on 93k.

Shame about the 5-6 hours worth of labour though..

randomshenans · 8 Apr 2021 at 10:58

randomshenans said:
Got cleaned, wheels on and some more stickers. ARB kit needs to go on, B6 Bilstein shocks on the rear, poly exhaust hangers and some more orange hints and she's ready for her first outing... I think! Or shakedown at least

Bilsteins haven't been shipped yet, but got 2 1ftx5ft rolls of orange through... I should have worked this out better as I don't think it's enough for anything lol I just used one whole roll of it to do that one skirt (don't look too close!) and obviously had a bit of off cuts but nothing useable because I didn't cut it first... I have 3 more rolls on the way. I was testing out an orange sun strip. I think I'll do a carbon/ orange one and then work on the go faster stripes for the whole car and still need to do a really annoying, multi dimensional rear bumper insert, which I think I'll get the wife's hand with. It's looking sweet though!

Temujin · 8 Apr 2021 at 11:04

randomshenans said:
Bilsteins haven't been shipped yet, but got 2 1ftx5ft rolls of orange through... I should have worked this out better as I don't think it's enough for anything lol I just used one whole roll of it to do that one skirt (don't look too close!) and obviously had a bit of off cuts but nothing useable because I didn't cut it first... I have 3 more rolls on the way. I was testing out an orange sun strip. I think I'll do a carbon/ orange one and then work on the go faster stripes for the whole car and still need to do a really annoying, multi dimensional rear bumper insert, which I think I'll get the wife's hand with. It's looking sweet though!

Corr put me down for one of those sun strips!