What have you done to your car today?

Took the BMW to work yesterday, first time I drove it it ages, the aim being to avoid salt on the road

Drove the golf today with ac on as it seems to have been below 3c for ages
 
Fitted a new battery. It will bloody start!! :D

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Nearly gave myself a hernia lifting it into the engine bay :eek:


1150 cranking amps for the WIN.

Oh and I fitted a straight through stainless steel mid section pipe to the exhaust to remove one of the restrictive baffled boxes. Bit louder, goes better and you can now hear the turbo "a-whistlin"
 
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Just had 4 Contisport 5s fitted to the GTI. It had two Contisport 3s which were past their best and two ditch finders on the back so a much needed change. Apparently one of the Contis was a runflat! I thought it handled a little odd.

Can't wait to see what the handling is capable of now. Won't be anything near the MX5 though :(
 
Picked the car up from the garage this morning, after having a the drivers sill repaired, which was just a bit dead! The sills outer skin was fine, inside (where all the important structural bits are) was just rusted away!

Also picked up some new wheels on the way to collecting the car, got them fitted to the car, but haven't really got any decent photos yet, will try get some tomorrow!

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Driver's door handle did nothing from the outside this afternoon..
3-in-1 oil on the catches and it's sorted.

Like a boss :cool:
 
Installed a thicker rear ARB in the 911 yesterday, 19.7mm upto 20.7mm so 1mm thicker, was hoping new bar was 21.7mm but was not, still should help dial a bit more understeer out. I've got a 25.2mm but that just means oversteer oversteer lol!

Today good cleaning, checked brakes, oil, fluids etc in preparation for tomorrow's track day. :)
 
Stripped down my towbar by removing all the rusted on bolts, planning on painting it and fitting stainless bolts so it will be easier to remove the bar when I'm not using it. Need to find my dremel to cut the sockets off though.

The numpty I bought it off managed to lose all the bolt plates inside his chassis, but neglected to mention this fact on his auction - really don't like people like that.

The thing weighs a ton, do they really need to make them out of 1/4" plate steel? The car it attaches to is barely 2mm steel!
 
Yesterday I fitted my face lift head lights to my Celica GT-Four. Pain in the backside is a understatement. Had to remove wheels to remove wheel arch trim, then had to remove under tray which then allowed me to get at the bolts in the wings which you have to get at by feel only! Eventually got my bumper off in one piece and soldered on my new connectors and fitted my lights. Was worth it in the end though as it looks fantastic. Got some Philips 4000k side lights and just the standard bulbs the lights came with. Don't know whether to get some HID's or some new H1's as the visibility is good with these.

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Maybe a little bit of wheel spacing a thicker rear ARB then off to get my Teins 4 wheel alligned. Then power mods can start :D
 
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Busy weekend for me and the car! This weekend I have:


Had 4x Continental Sport Contact 5s fitted by A-Line in Dudley (the car had Potenza RE050As on it but the fronts were down to 3mm or so and seemed awful in the wet, so I decided a change to a different tyre and set of four was worthwhile).

Fitted a 35w 6000k HID kit. The FN2 Civic lends itself well to retro fitting HIDs, as becomes clear if you examine the OEM HIDs fitted to late model (09 onwards) cars. They use a reflector headlight housing identical to earlier models with a H7R bulb. Simply this means....get a H7R HID kit, rather than the plain H7, and you're good to go without dazzling other drivers. It does not have headlight washers or self levelling but then the wording of the MOT testing guidelines do not mean these are a necessity anyway.
 
Gave the ZS an oil change the other day, longest part was taking the undertray off and on again. Last time I had to use the screwdriver method to get the filter off because I was being a cheapskate, this time I had a claw socket thing like this:

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And it worked very nicely. Annoyingly, Halfords no longer sell a sump nut washer kit that fit my car nicely, so I just reused the old one with a new washer. Where do you guys get sump nuts from?
 
In my experience fellas, no filter tool is better than one of those chain ones. I used one of those to remove a filter that was so tight I had to use a breaker bar
 
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