What have you done to your car today?

[Avalon]

have you tried them in the dark yet ?

It needs to get dark first In all seriousness I appreciate in simple terms anything beyond 4.3K puts out less lumens on the road and personally 5-5.5K ish is where I would prefer to be cosmetically and from a performance perspective, but this will be closer to 6K. As I no longer do thousands of miles a month in rural Northumberland, I am willing to consider some trade-off.

 

[Nasher]

Halogens will always look yellow next to white LEDs.

 

[EddScott]

Yesterday my Evo got new dampers - Meister R GT1 - in hindsight I perhaps should have bought Ohlins as they are available for the 9 but as I have them on my Impreza I decided to stick with the Meisters.

Also, I learnt how to clock cars - at least how to clock an Evo

She came in with 83K KMS but between March 16 MOT and 17 MOT 50K was shaved off. Up until yesterday it said 37K somethingorothers (haven't quite established if it's couting in miles or KMS)

Ready to go.

Initially, having no idea what I'm doing, my first attempt at changing the mileage resulted in a complete loss of the dash! No Odo, revs, fuel the lot. Gone, snaffu'd.

Fortunately, I managed to find a .BIN file online for a 9MR (mine is a GT) so loaded that onto the chip and mercifully everything came back on.

She now reads 74K somethings which will do for now. I think it should be 87K KMS (54K miles) but not 100%.

She also got a carbon lip and roof vortex thingy (Ali Express specials which fit surprisingly well) and had the front and rear bumpers resprayed - the rear had a nasty scuff and the front had holes where some silly cannards had been fitted.

 

[gc123]

Yeah I used to work in a main BMW dealer so working on the ground is a bit of a culture shock. I'm hoping that one day I can afford to get a garage and 2-post lift put up. It would've made this job soooo much easier.

one thing im really glad i did when i retired and gave up my business was to bring my 2 post home. using it on a convertor but still manages to lift most of my vehicles high enough for easier maintenance .
only problem is i made the mistake of putting the father in laws focus on it before lockdown and the wife stacked all the furniture and white goods under it (fil passed )so have to wait to get it down lol

 

[Gorbash12346]

one thing im really glad i did when i retired and gave up my business was to bring my 2 post home. using it on a convertor but still manages to lift most of my vehicles high enough for easier maintenance .
only problem is i made the mistake of putting the father in laws focus on it before lockdown and the wife stacked all the furniture and white goods under it (fil passed )so have to wait to get it down lol

If/when I finally get a garage built I'll be keeping the other half out for that exact reason.

 

[bloodiedathame]

Took my 58 Golf for an MOT and service, it's been sat on the drive for 9 months SORN... Probably could do with cambelt and water pump doing but I'm going to sell it sooner rather than later.

 

[pugheaven]

Well, as the weather is nice, come 12 and my "dinner hour", going to give the SRT8 a clean... beings as it's rained every day for 20 days... hahaha... and now the forecast is nice... some foam, some cleaning and a happy me

 

[Razor-BladE]

Just have the Ford Focus in the garage atm, new rear brake shoe kits are being fitted and there's also a lip on the brake drums. I went with resurfacing (£50) instead of replacing (£170) because it won't be having a hard life.. Should I have gone with replacing or will this be ok? Car has done 95k miles.

 

[Akagi]

Just have the Ford Focus in the garage atm, new rear brake shoe kits are being fitted and there's also a lip on the brake drums. I went with resurfacing (£50) instead of replacing (£170) because it won't be having a hard life.. Should I have gone with replacing or will this be ok? Car has done 95k miles.

Be fine. Most people don't bother doing anything and just whack new brake shoes in the crusty old drum. Might give it a scrub with some scotchbrite.

 

[Razor-BladE]

Ok great! I didn't want to feel like I'd compromise on safety when it comes to brakes. But I thought it's the rear brakes so it should be ok.
It's actually had a slight grinding for a couple of years when braking at slow speed but nothing significant, but more recently it's been sticking pretty badly when I put the handbrake on overnight.
Afaik it was the original brake shoes (13 years old!), the guy when he phoned me up said it basically fell apart xD I wonder how much difference I'll feel.

 

[Akagi]

Probably none, rear brakes, especially drums, only make up a small amount of the total braking effort. But the noises will hopefully be gone. Haha

 

[Razor-BladE]

Well, the grinding noise actually wasn't the most annoying unwanted noise! One of the front drop link bushings was worn so over bumps/pot holes I'd get a rattle/buzz. Tried to change it myself but couldn't get the old ones off so getting the garage to do it. That will definitely make the drive quieter

 

[AWPC]

Went for an early morning drive as traffic last few days has been absolutely horrendous you would be lucky to crawl along at 30-40 mph for the entire journey going early is the only way to beat it!

Had 2 interesting encounters... Tesla 3 has some incredible acceleration that thing just disappeared up the road must have fully charged his battery then a newish Audi A7 what a monster that is the top end acceleration was quite impressive he just pulled away like I was standing still (we were both travelling at interesting speeds) not a fan at all of either of those cars looks wise (very generic & plain looking) but they do have impressive engines!

 

[mushtafa]

Went to the first car show for a long time and showed the car off. Mines the green

 

[Gorbash12346]

Checking the lash on the new rear diff in my Iveco daily along with finishing up the hand brake cables. can't finish it as I'm waiting for new brake pipe flaring tool that can deal with the plastic coated steel lines.
The axle was a freshly rebuilt unit from midland transmission but as I've never used them before and I trust no-one when spending this kind of money I decided I'd check it myself. Thankfully all good

All sealed up now and giving the sealant time to cure before I put the oil in.

Also had my parents motorhome over for a brake fluid change before it's MOT.
Unfortunately the time sitting still has not been kind to it and it's now sporting 3 seized brake calipers and cooked it's front discs on the way over.
So that now needs all the calipers rebuilt and a fresh set of discs and pads front and rear.

 

[Akagi]

Just doing pre-MOT inspection on the GS. Everything seems fine, no play in any bushes or ball joints, no splits in boots, no concerning rust, no excessive leaks, brakes look fine if a little low on pad meat perhaps (but above requirements), shocks all dry, springs are fine, brake pipes and hoses look fine, lighting all works fine...

But I'm unsure about the rear tyres. They are only 5 years old I think, but both outer grooves have cracks in the bottom all the way around, on both tyres, and some other little bits of cracking too.

What do you recon?

 

[Phemo]

I don't think there's anything in the MOT rules that it would technically fail on. I had a quick skim here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/mot-ins...les-wheels-tyres-and-suspension#section-5-2-3

However that damage does remind me of something that happened to a tyre on my wife's car a while ago:

I'd probably replace them anyway if it were me

 

[Gorbash12346]

whats the date code on them? they look pretty badly perished. so long as you can't see the cords through any of the cracks It won't fail.

Most likely an advisory, but I'd be replacing them at that level of cracking if it was me. That is unless it only does 30mph city driving.

 

[andy_mk3]

Just doing pre-MOT inspection on the GS. Everything seems fine, no play in any bushes or ball joints, no splits in boots, no concerning rust, no excessive leaks, brakes look fine if a little low on pad meat perhaps (but above requirements), shocks all dry, springs are fine, brake pipes and hoses look fine, lighting all works fine...

But I'm unsure about the rear tyres. They are only 5 years old I think, but both outer grooves have cracks in the bottom all the way around, on both tyres, and some other little bits of cracking too.

What do you recon?

A **** of a tester would fail it. But unless there's any cords visible through the cracks then no its not a failure.

 

[Akagi]

They were very overinflated when I got the car, perhaps being driven like that for a while could have caused this? They were both at 47 PSI.

They are late 2015 I think.

What do we think from a safety perspective though? I've seen pictures of 2 year old Goodyears online looking like this, but I don't know if that makes me feel better haha.