What have you done to your car today?

Fuzz said:
BP prices round here, but yep it is Super diesel
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Why do you fill with that, do you just have piles of money you enjoy setting fire to for no particular reason? What do you run that even benefits from it, an Audi R10 TDI LMP?

Lowest diesel price in Cheltenham is 110.9, could have saved yourself 14 quid :D
 
when I've spent nigh on the cost of the vehicle on the engine alone, I am pretty happy at spunking an extra £14 quid on it in fuel. :D

Yea it's the Disco.
The main reason for the plummet in MPG has been a day or two spent pretty much in first gear in mud ruts and the fact it now has tyres that sap so much energy, the wheel balancer machine can't even spin them fast enough to get a balance figure out of them.
 
Replaced the pollen filter in Mother's Fiat 500.

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Was a standard filter that started off as pure white, and I don't think it had ever been changed. Replaced it with a Activated Carbon filter that's from a different model Fiat but the same size.
It's a complete PITA to change the cabin filter on the Fiat 500 - they didn't alter the design for the RHD market, so you've got a clutch pedal right in the way of where the filter goes.
 
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Westyfield2 said:
It's a complete PITA to change the cabin filter on the Fiat 500 - they didn't alter the design for the RHD market, so you've got a clutch pedal right in the way of where the filter goes.
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I remember the clutch pedal in my Cinquecento showed a similar lack of effort for RHD. the cable from the gearbox went to the passenger side (As would have been designed for a LHD) then there was a system of rods and levers over to the drivers side for RHD.
 
This lot arrive to be fitted at the weekend.

Already got Oil for a service and no need for an Air filter as its got a stupid induction kit. Waterpump Inlet pipe as the 90 degree hose tail has corroded and split on mine. At £90 they're day light robbery for what it is

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Genuine mats arrived, side by side the colour is labelled as "black" but is more of a really dark dark grey. No heel pad is much nicer, no more catching the lip on my heel when moving from throttle to brake and vice versa.

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Lastly, bit chilly today else I'd have fitted this new wing mirror already, for the weekend I think. Dealer is also sending me a freshly painted driver side one as there's some minor bubbling on the aluminium plate on my existing one. The passenger side one was a pre-arranged replacement for the damaged hinge on the existing one, the driver side is a free one for the AC regas-gate which I was happy to accept.

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^I've seen online that there's a mirror specialist who sells the auto dimming wing mirror glass, bit dear at 150 a pop but I will definitely look to getting a pair but that's at a very low priority.
 
Had my wing mirror glass/innards replaced under AUC as from about 30MPH it was rattling like mad.

So technically all I did was drive it there, wait and then drive it back.
 
Oil change!! First one I have ever done and it went well! Had to get a 27mm socket for the filter but it's done! Next up is the spark plugs.
 
Bought a mirror trim to replace the one that fell off (:p), emailed someone about a silver wing to replace the white one, realised that the EML hasn't come back on for over 2000 miles (:D), replaced three of the cable ties from my cable tie bodge with one long one, oh and I had to heat up my key with FIRE to unlock it because the locks were frozen solid...
 
S2000 smashed through the MOT today. No issues reported as expected.

Insurance tomorrow. £500 worth of bills in January I could do without at the moment but its sorted for another year.
 
Broke the external door handle carrier. Learned I can open the windows using the fob (only knew you could close them). The latter is helping with the initial issue until a new carrier comes and I spend 4 hours on a 1 hour job.
 
Ordered a leather gearstick gaitor which turned out to be the only easy bit of my day! I then decided to fit my rear view camera with number plate light and 6 hrs later I've finished. What an absolute nightmare!

I broke the right side tailgate trim when a metal tab wouldn't release properly, the power wiring on the camera and light is thinner than a human hair and snaps if you breathe on it, the video lead wouldn't go through the bootlid grommets for love nor money and my soldering iron blew-up!

However, the bit I was actually dreading most (routing the video cable through the inside if the car under all the trim) only took minutes and was incredibley easy so I finally finished 6 hrs later and after loosing my rag and threatening the car with an axe at least 3 times (even the neighbours popped out to see what the noise was about) everything is temporarily fitted and the Camera power just needs soldering to finish.

So was it worth it, Oh Hell Yes!!! These should be mandatory on all new cars, it make reversing 1000 times easier as I've never been able to accurately judge how close I am to the car/fence etc behind where as with the camera I can stop exactly 2in away and know that I'm 2in away!

However on my next Mondeo I'm paying some other poor git to fit one!
 
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