What have you done to your car today?
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That's crazy cheap
Hes doing over 20 per day. So I presume he gets what he needs from it.
Be worth a drive to get mine doe next time , £400 here
Soldato
Literally booked in and dropped car off for service. Phone call 30mins later saying we can't get the sump plug off as it's been siliconed into the sump.
New sump ordered at £400 fitted to be done next couple of weeks.
Looks like we've been ripped off by the Outlanders previous owners saying they had it serviced in January (book has 11 stamps), although garage they serviced it at 'had a computer issue and lost all service records' so can't verify what was done and invoice has disappeared.
They said they had gearbox serviced but clearly not.
Guess I'll be getting gearbox serviced just in case because it looks like it was probably never done....
New sump ordered at £400 fitted to be done next couple of weeks.
Looks like we've been ripped off by the Outlanders previous owners saying they had it serviced in January (book has 11 stamps), although garage they serviced it at 'had a computer issue and lost all service records' so can't verify what was done and invoice has disappeared.
They said they had gearbox serviced but clearly not.
Guess I'll be getting gearbox serviced just in case because it looks like it was probably never done....
Man of Honour
They may have just sucked it all up through the filler hole and never went near the sump plug.
That's how my Octavia was serviced after the garage had a big hissy fit over the sump plug having "dissimilar metal corrosion" and how I'd need it helicoiled at the least if I got them to attempt to remove it. I told them not to worry and bought myself a Pela vacuum.
Actually did me a massive favour as it got me servicing my own cars which saved a fortune over the years!
Soldato
It's not the way I'd normally service a car because I want any crap draining out and I like to see metal filings if there are any to avoid future issues.
It was the fact they never told me and sold me a car unable to be serviced how it should be. Something doesn't add up.
I'd service it myself but I wanted a reputable garage to give it the once over.
The only silver lining to this is they can take the sump off to replace it and check the balance shafts at the same time.
I was told they serviced the gearbox but now I'm not sure... So I'll get it done anyway before any problems set in.
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Caporegime
Polished many a head light over the years and always with the same result. Great at the beginning but always end up yellow again. I even tried one of those 3M head light sealer kits which never lasted.
Today took my headlights off and sanded 1k followed by 2.5k but instead of polishing them up I got the compressor out and sprayed a coat of 2K Clear over the top. Hopefully these stay clear and non yellow for a bit more longer than usual!
Today took my headlights off and sanded 1k followed by 2.5k but instead of polishing them up I got the compressor out and sprayed a coat of 2K Clear over the top. Hopefully these stay clear and non yellow for a bit more longer than usual!
I've always found car exterior lights either have a tendency to yellow or a tendency to hold their clearness and rarely anything in between and there isn't much you can really do about it. Often without rhyme or reason though cheaper ones tend to be lower quality materials more likely to yellow.
I'm having problems with replacing one of my Navara rear lights at the moment as someone (not me) cracked the original and the replacement has yellowed significantly and can't be treated/polished out
but only the same supplier of the cheap one I know for a fact is selling the correct layout - everywhere else seems to be showing the correct layout but supplying the Euro layout with the fog light instead of reverse light even after I've asked them to check only other option is buying the OE which last time Nissan quoted 4x the going rate for those kind of lights 
Soldato
Just changed the clutch master cylinder on the Mrs's Astra.
Technically simply but an absolute pig of a job in practice.
I'm now a contortionist having changed it over.
Gunson Ezibleed kit made short work of the clutch bleed.
Technically simply but an absolute pig of a job in practice.
I'm now a contortionist having changed it over.
Gunson Ezibleed kit made short work of the clutch bleed.
Not today but recently installed the MPPSK cat-back exhaust onto my 440i.
BMW want £2500 for the exhaust with the carbon tips and a factory tune, but I found someone selling the back box for very cheap and I got a new front pipe from BMW. All in after selling my old exhaust it was about £400.
Thankfully the carbon tips came up nicely with some autosol + polish on the carbon fibre because BMW want £500 for them alone.
Car is tuned with bootmod3.
Sounds so much better than stock! The fun trick with this exhaust is when the valves are closed, the exhaust gases are routed through the silencer but when the valves are open, the exhaust bypasses the silencer entirely so it effectively becomes a straight pipe from the cat back.
And just to head off the sort of comments I got in another forum:
Yes, the car is on jack stands.
Yes, it is lifted by the differential which is an approved jacking point on these cars.
Also gave the engine bay a bit of a clean.
BMW want £2500 for the exhaust with the carbon tips and a factory tune, but I found someone selling the back box for very cheap and I got a new front pipe from BMW. All in after selling my old exhaust it was about £400.
Thankfully the carbon tips came up nicely with some autosol + polish on the carbon fibre because BMW want £500 for them alone.
Car is tuned with bootmod3.
Sounds so much better than stock! The fun trick with this exhaust is when the valves are closed, the exhaust gases are routed through the silencer but when the valves are open, the exhaust bypasses the silencer entirely so it effectively becomes a straight pipe from the cat back.
And just to head off the sort of comments I got in another forum:
Yes, the car is on jack stands.
Yes, it is lifted by the differential which is an approved jacking point on these cars.
Also gave the engine bay a bit of a clean.
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Same as I have.Not today but recently installed the MPPSK cat-back exhaust onto my 440i.
BMW want £2500 for the exhaust with the carbon tips and a factory tune, but I found someone selling the back box for very cheap and I got a new front pipe from BMW. All in after selling my old exhaust it was about £400.
Thankfully the carbon tips came up nicely with some autosol + polish on the carbon fibre because BMW want £500 for them alone.
Car is tuned with bootmod3.
Sounds so much better than stock! The fun trick with this exhaust is when the valves are closed, the exhaust gases are routed through the silencer but when the valves are open, the exhaust bypasses the silencer entirely so it effectively becomes a straight pipe from the cat back.
And just to head off the sort of comments I got in another forum:
Yes, the car is on jack stands.
Yes, it is lifted by the differential which is an approved jacking point on these cars.
Also gave the engine bay a bit of a clean.
You stage 1?
Nice, yeah!
Running stage 1 93 octane map.
Haha yes, I dont think I'll get tired of it. Love how it goes from reasonable to racecar at the touch of a button!Perhaps just a reflection of complete immaturity but 18 months in and i'm still not even a little bit bored of the MPPSK exhaust
What moda you got to pair with the stage 2?
Powervalve Exhaust , Cobra decat , Masata Intercooler & Chargepipe , Methanol Injection and Pure 500 turbo.
Have you messed with the pops and bangs?
I've reduced them down a lot. Was a bit anti social before