What have you done to your car today?

Street said:
That's my job tomorrow. I did it a week or so before Christmas but it's actually brown now instead of bright yellow and I can barely see my number plate. I swear it's never been this bad before.
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Yes quite a few cars round here where the rear end is completely covered in brown muck with invisible plates!
I washed mine because I don't want salt sitting on it, and now it looks like a bloody cat has walked all over it. :mad:
 
Took the Elise out for its first drive of the year, mainly bit of a test drive as its not been used in a couple of months. Battery doesn't seem to be holding much of a charge so put it on the conditioner but if no joy then I'll have to swap that out.
 
Changed the boot struts on my Focus estate. Dead easy! It took a couple of minutes to do.

Also helped a friend replace a rear light and some trim on her old (e46) 3 Series.
 
Set about replacing the wishbones on the Austin.

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There is a proper order of operations to remove them, compressing the spring or removing the spring pan slowly with a jack under it to get the tension off, then removing the inner this and the outer that blah blah...

Nah mate, just undo the inner fulcrum pins and the kingpin top nut, hit it with a big hammer, and PING, Bobs your uncle... :p

Reason for replacing...

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Kingpins came out easily, which was nice. Owners club said it would be a fight to get the threaded bushing out, but aside from the cotter pins/keys being a bit jammed in there, it all came apart nicely.

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They are fairly pitted but they didn't have any play and they are approaching 70 years old so I think it can be forgiven, they'll go again.

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Now onto prepping and painting the spring pans and the replacement wishbones, waiting on new bushes and ball joint dust covers, cork seals, fulcrum pins, cotter pins, etc.
 
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What's a decent OBD2 tool that won't break the bank for general reading and resetting codes, seen Veepeak mentioned a view times on here?
 
Replacement wishbones and spring pans painted, bolted together with new hardware and spacers between the wishbone and pan to lower the front end a bit.

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Please don't worry about the nylock thread engagement, the nylon goes down a fair way into the nut and they're as tight as a *** **** in a *****! :)
 
Akagi said:
Replacement wishbones and spring pans painted, bolted together with new hardware and spacers between the wishbone and pan to lower the front end a bit.

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Please don't worry about the nylock thread engagement, the nylon goes down a fair way into the nut and they're as tight as a *** **** in a *****! :)
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tight as a squirrel in a duvet cover?
 
The seats on the Suzuki Carry turbo arrived a bit damaged. I was looking at retrims etc, but expensive of course for what it is.

Found seat covers in Japan that fit this model so went with some foam and spray glue to fill the damage, then added the covers. Looks not too bad.


 
Unblocked the rear washer jet on the R56 Mini.

Also lost the metal mini badge from the keyfob that I just soldered a new battery into and recased :(
 
churchhawk said:
Cleaned it !, I don't know what they have done to the roads but my car was filthy probably the worst its ever been
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I thought the same, I washed it the day before I went on holiday. Did a total of 350 miles round trip to Stansted and back and it was just pure grime all over it. I've never seen it get so dirty within that little miles.
 
Street said:
I swear I have to do that every month! The one on my car stopped working last week and when I mentioned it, I was informed that the one on the Mini was blocked yet again.
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First time I've had to do it, and fortunately quite easy (just unclip and fold back the cover, then I poked the nozzle with a wooden skewer)
 
I'm upgrading the audio in my Cayman GT4. It has the Bose system which I didn't think was too bad but as I am limited to what I can do to the car whilst under warranty, I still can't leave it alone. :)

This is replacing the OEM Bose amp
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These are the speakers going in - Audiofrog GS series
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Rears were a bit of a pain to get to because of the cage.
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Centre was nice and easy
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Tweeters were horrible. Hard to get the cover off, easy to remove the tweeter itself, impossible to remove the cage it sits in without destroying it.
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I placed sound deadening material in the rear. Not convinced it will make a jot of difference but it's done now.
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I'm doing the doors and fitting the amp tomorrow.
 
Refurbed M359 completion wheels for my E92 M3 Car in for remap waiting for Ecu back so garage will fit them for when it’s done Please as the previous refurb before I got the wheels was a mess and flaking off

New caps and badges on way
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Doing a clutch and flywheel job today and see the rear main seal is weeping ever so lightly. I always hate it when that happens and you need to order in another part. Hoping it gets here by Saturday as only dry day for the next week. Thing is when I did the cambelt I ordered the front seal but didn't bother changing it because it was bone dry (Don't fix what isn't broken). I foolishly thought the rear main seal would be fine also.
 
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