What have you done to your car today?

Front wiper blades suddenly stopped working yesterday.

So I googled likely causes and a common fault came up for my model, the water drain holes block up and the area where the wiper blade motor is floods and causes the failure.

Low and behold I removed everything to gain access to that area and it was indeed flooded and had blocked drainage holes.

Unblocked the holes and cleaned the area, tested it was draining correctly.

Ordered a new motor so await its arrival next week.

I hope its a simple swap over of the motors and not other more serious electrical problems related to the wiper system.
 
Not just today but over the last two days I’ve driven it for 425 miles at an average of 29.1 mpg going to Bristol and back. It would have been better mpg but I was crawling at pretty much walking pace on the M25 yesterday for 45 minutes.

The M4 was nice and empty first thing this morning though.
 
Couldn't believe I got 48mpg driving from South London to Bedford last night, in zero degrees and reduced speed for snow. That's summer mileage!

Dodgy replacement car finally scores a point for itself.
 
I went to start it up for its weekly run to keep the already failing battery from dying, I should really buy a trickle charger, and I had no fuel pumps, so that’s fun.. no idea why, I haven’t used it or done anything since it last started
 
Akagi said:
I hate Bosch blades, I think they're rubbish. They don't last 5 minutes before they're juddering and smearing all over the show.

I genuinely prefer the cheap knockoffs you can get on eBay.
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Lol.

My car came with Bosch blades when bought used. 1.5 years later and they needed replacing... That's assuming they were new when I bought the car which they probably weren't.
 
Never had a problem with Bosch here although I did go with the cheapest of the cheap on ECP this time just to see what they were like. Under £12 for the front pair.
 
Ordered 6x new (Bosch) fuel injectors for the BMW, worked out at £34.50 per injector incl. postage using the AutoDoc app and a code (SAM) for another 5% off. Cheers @mrk for pointing out that things are cheaper on the app, I almost forgot! :D
The cheapest I could find otherwise was £44 each on the website, or £46 each elsewhere but they are out of stock, leaving the next cheapest at something like £65 each. :eek:

So thats another £207 spent on it, but injector refurb places will pay £10 each per original injector, and I have 12 (1 random old spare set in addition to the ones in the engine), so in theory, thats £120 recouped! We'll see if that actually works out. :p
 
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How one thing lead to another.
Had a puncture last week and it took a few hundred yards to find a stopping place. Pumped it up and got home - Took car to tyre place and when they had tyre off he said it's knackered -Lots of bit's of rubber in there so ordered a new tyre -(£100) - They fitted wheel on next day -Fine . Went shopping next day and tyre pressure light came on so when got to car park got battery pump out and pumped them all to same pressure.
Got to off side rear wheel and it was hot -very hot.
So at 8.30 this morning my job today is take it to garage to have wheel off and check rear brake for sticking on.
A few years ago I would have done it myself but those days are now beyond me. :rolleyes:
 
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