What have you done to your car today?

slick rick said:
Good stuff, hope you get the issue sorted mate! :)
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What a complete *@#! of a job that was, the cam position sensor wouldn't unscrew, then took an age to re-screw once I'd got the old one out, then I could not feed the sensor wire to where it needed to go, but, in the end, I got there (albeit the old sensor is still in the engine bay, it wouldn't come out, snagged somewhere, it'll have to wait until daylight! :o )

Car seems much happier, smoother, more responsive and I'm - after albeit a fairly short but spirited test drive - reading the dizzy heights of 27mpg on the OBC, quite an improvement from 13!
 
Got it ****ing filthy mainly :D
Those tyres be good :eek:

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Got these bad boys to install the moment the rain subsides.

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Inner 2 will be staggered, of course :cool:
 
Came to drive the 350Z yesterday morning for the first time in a few weeks and it unlocked slowly, and turned over even more slowly :( So had to give up and use the other car.

Yanked the battery out and put it on charge for an hour - started OK however I have a feeling I will come back to it in a couple of days and it will be dead again :( I feel a 'spec me a new battery' thread coming on :)
 
It's very subtle, my exhaust is stock and never been touched but the tips in the middle stick out maybe 0.5 to 1cm more than the outer 2 tips - I guess it's hard to tell a lot of the time as people change the whole exhaust for something louder lol. Crazy people.
 
Scania said:
What a complete *@#! of a job that was, the cam position sensor wouldn't unscrew, then took an age to re-screw once I'd got the old one out, then I could not feed the sensor wire to where it needed to go, but, in the end, I got there (albeit the old sensor is still in the engine bay, it wouldn't come out, snagged somewhere, it'll have to wait until daylight! :o )

Car seems much happier, smoother, more responsive and I'm - after albeit a fairly short but spirited test drive - reading the dizzy heights of 27mpg on the OBC, quite an improvement from 13!
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The apparently simple jobs can often become a headache, I'm glad you persevered and got it done in the end.

It was well worth doing to get the engine happy again and 13 to 27mpg is a vast improvement! :D
 
slick rick said:
The apparently simple jobs can often become a headache, I'm glad you persevered and got it done in the end.

It was well worth doing to get the engine happy again and 13 to 27mpg is a vast improvement! :D
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I'm glad too, I very much expected to end up with something broken and a stranded unmovable car - that's confidence in yourself eh? - thankfully not though (although I did drop my hex key into the engine bay and had to ask a few neighbours until I found a spare!) very much worth the effort and the mpg bump is nice, it's pretty much reading the same as my old 528i auto did which I'm happy with (it's a lot quicker off the mark than the 528 too)

Happy but can't say I'm too keen on the next fiddly job I find!
 
Scania said:
I'm glad too, I very much expected to end up with something broken and a stranded unmovable car - that's confidence in yourself eh? - thankfully not though (although I did drop my hex key into the engine bay and had to ask a few neighbours until I found a spare!) very much worth the effort and the mpg bump is nice, it's pretty much reading the same as my old 528i auto did which I'm happy with (it's a lot quicker off the mark than the 528 too)

Happy but can't say I'm too keen on the next fiddly job I find!
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Hopefully she will give you some trouble free motoring for a good while now!

I have a 528i with a slush box, its been nothing but bloody trouble! The amount of money I have spent on it must 10x the value of the car :o

I even had to replace the whole motor on it! Radiator, trans cooler, shocks and springs, everything for the cooling, FSU, climate panel its an endless list. I know, I am mad!!
 
slick rick said:
Hopefully she will give you some trouble free motoring for a good while now!

I have a 528i with a slush box, its been nothing but bloody trouble! The amount of money I have spent on it must 10x the value of the car :o

I even had to replace the whole motor on it! Radiator, trans cooler, shocks and springs, everything for the cooling, FSU, climate panel its an endless list. I know, I am mad!!
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I hear you there, I guess, so long as you still enjoy driving it, it's worthwhile, the price of running an old car.

On the other hand, still most likely cheaper than buying a newer car and arguably a nicer car to own to boot.
 
Scania said:
I hear you there, I guess, so long as you still enjoy driving it, it's worthwhile, the price of running an old car.

On the other hand, still most likely cheaper than buying a newer car and arguably a nicer car to own to boot.
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I have quite enjoyed working on it to be honest, I have learned a lot from it that's for sure.

I will probably just run it until another large bill hits then move on to something else i.e another potential bag of trouble!
 
gurdas said:
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.
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I doubt they would, it's not the service department doing the spraying so the labour rate will be far lower. They'd never get any insurance work if they charged that much!
 
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