What have you done to your car today?

Marvin · 1 Jan 2015 at 21:48

Scania said:
The torx head your looking at isn't what I'm trying to remove, its the long silver thing to the right, the threaded nut is directly above the "3" of the "3/2" you can see in the picture.

Christ - I actually considered that but dismissed it on the basis that it couldn't possibly be a nut - that's completely mangled.

Phil W · 1 Jan 2015 at 22:02

Removed the tat from the new car.

shauncr91 · 1 Jan 2015 at 22:19

Nothing wrong with those badges

mjt · 1 Jan 2015 at 22:21

Pics needed

Phil W · 1 Jan 2015 at 22:26

I'll put some pics up tomorrow maybe, it's filthy right now. Orange seems to attract the dirt more so than any other colour car that I've owned!

rodenal · 1 Jan 2015 at 22:29

Whilst we're on the subject of Fords....

Been thinking about getting the Mrs a little 1.0t or 1.25 mk7 fiesta. She thinks the silver interior of the pre facelift is stinking (I tend to agree) but they're usefully cheaper for what is near as makes no difference the exact same car.

I seem to remember some models had black gloss trim similar to the revised car instead of nasty silver everywhere. Trouble is I can't seem to find any, have I completely made this up?

ironman · 1 Jan 2015 at 22:47

Not really what have I done, but rather what someone else did.....reversed into me whilst I was sat stationary parked up, however they have coughed up £600 for the inconvenience

pepsilol · 1 Jan 2015 at 22:55

Hmm, get a touch up pen to fix the mark and then use the £598 to fix the alloys.

mjt · 1 Jan 2015 at 22:57

pepsilol said:
Hmm, get a touch up pen to fix the mark and then use the £598 to fix the alloys.

Trollolol

Scania · 2 Jan 2015 at 00:34

pepsilol said:
Youll never get that off with a spanner. You need a 32mm deep socket.

Or get the ring spanner and see if goes from the back on, then double it up for leverage with another spanner.

I'll be speaking nicely to the fitters at work in the morning....

acemastr · 2 Jan 2015 at 00:54

Ah that sucks, can't imagine hitting someone then getting out to find it's a Bentley, 600 won't cover a new bumper and paint will it?

ironman · 2 Jan 2015 at 01:00

acemastr said:
Ah that sucks, can't imagine hitting someone then getting out to find it's a Bentley, 600 won't cover a new bumper and paint will it?

Fortunately, it won't cost me anything to get it fixed. However Bentley would charge roughly £1,200 inc vat to respray the existing bumper.

Howard · 2 Jan 2015 at 09:12

rodenal said:
Whilst we're on the subject of Fords....

Been thinking about getting the Mrs a little 1.0t or 1.25 mk7 fiesta. She thinks the silver interior of the pre facelift is stinking (I tend to agree) but they're usefully cheaper for what is near as makes no difference the exact same car.

I seem to remember some models had black gloss trim similar to the revised car instead of nasty silver everywhere. Trouble is I can't seem to find any, have I completely made this up?

Titanium model I expect.

Scania · 2 Jan 2015 at 09:34

VANOS solenoid is off!!!

Thankfully, the workshop where I work has some rather fancy tools!

Just hope, after all the faffing, my new cam position sensor cures my crap mpg (circa 13mpg currently) and its tendency to stall when pulling off or going into reverse....

rodenal · 2 Jan 2015 at 11:09

Howard said:
Titanium model I expect.

I thought that but it doesn't seem to be the case, from what I can see there was a model that included nav as standard, it seems to have a different head unit which is gloss black....surrounded by silver trim. Not a good look.

The facelifts are very cheap for what is a very new car anyway, it might just have meant I could persuade her to get a slightly better engine

shauncr91 · 2 Jan 2015 at 11:13

IIRC you can buy the gloss black trim from Ford Parts, can't remember how much it is though.

rodenal · 2 Jan 2015 at 11:21

Can you? I'll have a look I to it

Phil W · 2 Jan 2015 at 11:51

mjt said:
Pics needed

Just the one after a quick bath.

slick rick · 2 Jan 2015 at 12:46

Scania said:
VANOS solenoid is off!!!

Thankfully, the workshop where I work has some rather fancy tools!

Just hope, after all the faffing, my new cam position sensor cures my crap mpg (circa 13mpg currently) and its tendency to stall when pulling off or going into reverse....

Good stuff, hope you get the issue sorted mate!

Westyfield2 · 2 Jan 2015 at 19:59

Stuck Dad's car up on ramps to try and find out what the knocking noise is over bumps...

Couldn't see anything obviously wrong, so more investigation needed.