What have you done to your car today?
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Living my best lifeOf all the places to take pictures, you choose a baby changing mat
Soldato
Been a busy week for me, purchased a 1998 Mercedes S210 E300TD with OM606. Usual rotten front wings so 2 of those ordered, 1 of which is Genuine Mercedes New Old stock.
All wheel bolts were seized and snapped when undone, so removed the hubs and brake assembly whole and drilled the bolts out from behind (easier than trying to do it on the vehicle) and replaced the tyres, hubs, brake disks and pads and put proper wheel bolts on not the stupid merc stock ones.
Fuel system was sucking in air so tried to replace the prefilter and fuel system o-rings to no avail, so bypassed the fuel heater and prefilter and fed the fuel direct to the shutoff valve until my Shutoff valve delete kit arrives.
Serviced the gearbox and refilled with new transmission fluid and ordered new oil and filter for engine service. Replaced fuel and air filters.
Topped up Hydraulic fluid which was below minimum and creating some weird rear end suspension behaviour!
Repaired both faulty door mirrors.
Replaced the central locking compressor
Replaced both side repeaters
Replaced blown dash bulbs.
Regassed aircon but still blowing hot so ordered a duovalve service kit
Replaced both rear window regulators and fixed all the broken door clips
Replaced Aux belt and tensioner pulley plus damper
Buffed all headlights and refitted the headlamp washers which were loose
Ordered paint for new wings
Took for a CT check (French MOT) and passed (Underside is solid and very well undercoated thankfully)
Replaced the Ancient Pioneer CD Headunit with a DAB and Bluetooth Pioneer Headunit which integrates nicely with my phone and iPod
Did a 300km round trip to pickup a secondhand 8 month old faulty Samsung American Style Fridge Freezer which fit in the back perfectly and the car performed faultlessly
Spent in total around 2500 euros including the car and been offered 4000 for it as it stands without the wings, never realised they were so desirable other than for an engine swap donor haha
Still to do
Paint and Fit front wings
Service the Duovalve
Replace Rear Brake discs and pads (parts here but one more set of wheel bolts to deal with, Left Rear)
Service the Fuel Injectors (those will no doubt be a bundle of laughs to get out) as it is nailing a bit at idle
Replace the Coolant, Engine Oil and Filter.
All wheel bolts were seized and snapped when undone, so removed the hubs and brake assembly whole and drilled the bolts out from behind (easier than trying to do it on the vehicle) and replaced the tyres, hubs, brake disks and pads and put proper wheel bolts on not the stupid merc stock ones.
Fuel system was sucking in air so tried to replace the prefilter and fuel system o-rings to no avail, so bypassed the fuel heater and prefilter and fed the fuel direct to the shutoff valve until my Shutoff valve delete kit arrives.
Serviced the gearbox and refilled with new transmission fluid and ordered new oil and filter for engine service. Replaced fuel and air filters.
Topped up Hydraulic fluid which was below minimum and creating some weird rear end suspension behaviour!
Repaired both faulty door mirrors.
Replaced the central locking compressor
Replaced both side repeaters
Replaced blown dash bulbs.
Regassed aircon but still blowing hot so ordered a duovalve service kit
Replaced both rear window regulators and fixed all the broken door clips
Replaced Aux belt and tensioner pulley plus damper
Buffed all headlights and refitted the headlamp washers which were loose
Ordered paint for new wings
Took for a CT check (French MOT) and passed (Underside is solid and very well undercoated thankfully)
Replaced the Ancient Pioneer CD Headunit with a DAB and Bluetooth Pioneer Headunit which integrates nicely with my phone and iPod
Did a 300km round trip to pickup a secondhand 8 month old faulty Samsung American Style Fridge Freezer which fit in the back perfectly and the car performed faultlessly
Spent in total around 2500 euros including the car and been offered 4000 for it as it stands without the wings, never realised they were so desirable other than for an engine swap donor haha
Still to do
Paint and Fit front wings
Service the Duovalve
Replace Rear Brake discs and pads (parts here but one more set of wheel bolts to deal with, Left Rear)
Service the Fuel Injectors (those will no doubt be a bundle of laughs to get out) as it is nailing a bit at idle
Replace the Coolant, Engine Oil and Filter.
Soldato
Fitted front and rear dash cams to the Outlander. Surprisingly easy to feed wires through, very impressed with how everything fits together.
Booked in for service next week at a garage that was recommended and is a Mitsubishi authorised garage.
Booked in for service next week at a garage that was recommended and is a Mitsubishi authorised garage.
Added a vinyl protection strip to the top of the bumper on the estate, new number plates, and managed to grab a high quality type 2 charger cable locally on facebook marketplace for a fraction of its retail price! 
Oh man must be something worth protecting!
Dad Wagon FTW! RS6 must be...Fancy, nice and clean...
/vomit