What have you done to your car today?

Bit of a drive, though :D

I need a reasonably local (locations shown in my profile) place that can loan me wheels or a car


I've got some new centre caps on the way though, I reckon they'll make the whole wheels look tidier tbh.
 
I think I got extremely lucky to find this place down the road from home. I simply drop it off on the way to work (I walk to work) and pick it up on the walk home.

I love that :D

The new specialist is in Fareham though so I gotta drive there and get the train to work and pick it up then drive home after work. £9.50 for a return train ticket and +25~mins for the journey. That's a once a year trip though really.
 
I had to maintain the Golf today. First time in a long long time.

Was coming home lastnight and realised the headlights were dim.

At 206k miles the original alternator was worn out, so £112 got me a 120A Bosch item (to replace the 90A original)

Hopefully headlights arnt dim anymore
 
Drive shaft failed on the 206 as I was driving back from a mates, took out pretty much all the consumables on the suspension. ..
Unfortunately couldn't cover the 45 miles to get home to do the job, so had to go to a nearby independent total cost for the day £500 ..
 
Abraxaz1 said:
Drive shaft failed on the 206 as I was driving back from a mates, took out pretty much all the consumables on the suspension. ..
Unfortunately couldn't cover the 45 miles to get home to do the job, so had to go to a nearby independent total cost for the day £500 ..
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Why not just use your breakdown cover to get it home, then fix it there?
 
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wash and wax last evening. That DIY spray job does look good enough for me :)
 
Of all the times the car could choose to blow a headlight bulb, it choose to do it tonight on the way home...when I'm due to leave at 3am to catch a ferry to France :/

Luckily it wasn't too onerous to change, but I had to use the one from the spare bulb kit that was gathering dust in the boot. I've kept the old one, so if I do get stopped by an over inquisitive gendarme who wants to inspect all the tat they insist we carry in the car, I can at least say I just had to use it.
 
Conscript said:
Of all the times the car could choose to blow a headlight bulb, it choose to do it tonight on the way home...when I'm due to leave at 3am to catch a ferry to France :/

Luckily it wasn't too onerous to change, but I had to use the one from the spare bulb kit that was gathering dust in the boot. I've kept the old one, so if I do get stopped by an over inquisitive gendarme who wants to inspect all the tat they insist we carry in the car, I can at least say I just had to use it.
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Not got a big 24 hour tesco nearby? Our one has head light bulb packs
 
Not so much done, but bought some bits for the S15.
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Only went to get the skirts, but it turned out I went to a treasure trove of JDM goodness. Out the front he had a beautiful S15, round the back he had 2 matching BNR34s, and a shed full of bits, including SpecR engine, sets of Work XD9, Volk TE37, Nismo LMGT4. Basically I wanted all of it. The exhaust was a great price though, 3" with 4.5" exit so I took that also.


Back in the world or cars I can actually see, I tried to extract the ABS sensor from the old hub, as I thought though, it broke in two so will need new one. Hit a kamikaze rabbit last night and broke the front lip off second time in 3 days, lost the remaining fog light too. :/
 
Voxination said:
All these red E46 dash needles are making me want to do mine lol.
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It's a good look and takes minutes to take the cluster out.

Here's a before and after, right needles are after if course. That's a year's worth of heat and sunlight. I suppose I could get heat resistive red paint and lacquer it up but that's not really a big issue given the once a year recolour.

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