What have you done to your car today?

I replaced the engine mounts and rear trans mounts on the S2000 yesterday. It was pretty easy TBH. Only the passenger-side engine mount gave me some issues due to the AC compressor doing its best to be in exactly the wrong place.
Old engine mounts weren't too bad when I got them off the car. Definitely perished though and probably not holding the engine as securely as they should. I salute their 20-years service though.
 
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Yaayuh! said:
Emptied the Ovlov, signed up an account on Autotrader and going to get it ready for sale :(

Going to miss the 3L 6cyl turbo wafter but EV is calling me.

Where else do people sell cars these days? Don’t say FB Marketfarce.
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Honestly I advertise on eBay and Facebook unless its something worth a few pence then I advertise on Autotrader and Pistonheads as well.

Usually Marketplace is the one that gets the sale... After 30 people wasting my time...
 
Put the Mrs's 57 plate Astra in for MOT. The engine and running gear all works well, but there is rust starting to creep around the lower rear arches and, more worryingly, the subframe.

Passed with no advisories :)

It's a shame that rust eventually kills cars.
 
Got myself a "executive pile" boot carpet to go on top of my freshly dried and clean boot floor lid :cool:

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Got my Impreza WRX Sti A-Line home and then sold it to my next door neighbour :cry:

Something really alluring about the car, the hatch shape with the deep blue really worked. Since I bought the i8 while waiting on the Subaru, I couldnt justify keeping it.

Waiting on the MOT being done for the little Suzuki Carry Turbo in the meantime
 
Ordered a Tonneau cover for the bed of the Suzuki today along with 4 Yokohama Geolander's from Japan.

So hard to find 12" tyres here so had to get them there, but check these little cute tyres out, cant wait. I was considering upping it to 13's and that gives more options, but getting the right wheels with the right offset on 4x100 wasnt easy. So to avoid any annoyance, decided to stick with the little 12" steels and just get these tyres

 
Replaced the track rod ends on my resto car, design of the treaded section was different car now has a massive amount of toe out, fairly sure who ever did the tracking last didn't centre the steering wheel or the rack first.
 
I want to replace the H7 halogen bulbs which are used as the main beam only (and flasher regardless of whether you code in the bi-xenon flasher like I have) with the new Phillips Ultinon Classic which is warm white LED H7 bulbs designed to keep the visual aesthetic of the original halogen look, but just be LED so longer lasting and that instant-on which I like.

Buy the Philips Ultinon Classic Match your LED lights with halogen LUM11972U2510C2/10 Match your LED lights with halogen

Colour-match your style
www.philips.co.uk www.philips.co.uk

Just umming and ahhing at the moment...
 
mrk said:
I want to replace the H7 halogen bulbs which are used as the main beam only (and flasher regardless of whether you code in the bi-xenon flasher like I have) with the new Phillips Ultinon Classic which is warm white LED H7 bulbs designed to keep the visual aesthetic of the original halogen look, but just be LED so longer lasting and that instant-on which I like.
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Ain't that a mot fail now?
 
That's solely for the main beam, not dipped which is Xenon. They don't take the bulbs out to check what they are in that context as visually they don't do anything different to halogen.
 
Only because ECE R37 applies to filament bulbs not LED. Far as I could see no drop in LED bulb complies with this reg for this exact reason, even though the bulb fully matches 1:1 the beam, luminance and colour tone etc of its halogen counterpart etc.
 
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