What have you done to your car today?

Armageus said:
Whilst they look good and are undoubtedly much brighter than the originals, surely these are still illegal without self levelling and washers?
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"Where fitted" is the key point on levelling and washers, it's also not exactly difficult to swap out to standard H1 bulbs should I wish to anyway.
As with all lights, provided they are fitted and adjusted well there isn't really an issue, fitting HIDs into projectors is a whole lot better than into reflectors that's for sure.
 
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My starting problems are related to the starter motor or the wiring it would seem. Not really the result I was hoping for since the battery needs changing soon anyway...

Battery reads 12.3V or thereabouts. Tried to jump start it with Dads car just now anyway which obviously made no difference...

Checked the earth and it might need cleaning or something, else I'll have to buy a new motor which is circa £100 or more...

10% of the cars value... :p
 
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InvaderGIR said:
Indeed. Get a meter on the battery and the alternator, check what power it has when off and when charging.


I was playing with my lights yesterday, giving myself a much better light output without blinding people in the process...especially as these photos are from before I adjusted them so were pointing far to far down.

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I dislike how despite going for some "yellow" HIDs, these are still blue, that's quite annoying as if hoped for a closer match to the original lights, but hey, bi-xenon projectors are certainly a much better way of fitting HIDs than whacking into a reflector unit. These are 4300K, I might try some 3000K ones, I was a bit worried they'd be too yellow though so went for the safe "oem" colour listed by people...not very oem to me. :p
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Are those the Philips White Visions?
 
FIXED!!! ITS FIXED!!!

I found the problem... Took some finding as it was together with a load more wires, wrapped in insulation tape, and covered in protective trunking...

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Snapped wire! :p
 
Had my first scrape in a car yesterday when I was trying to park into a very small space, the only one available in my street and scraped against the side of a lamppost trying to straighten my car up. My eyes were on the cars in front and behind me and saw a gap for the post, but the wheelarch wasn't in my mirror's view so did this.

Is this easy to sort out, and how would I get it fixed? Just paint and no body damage from what I can tell. It's my car, so no harm done to anyone, but would like to get it fixed if it's an easy job.

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Astra H going in for cam & Auxiliary belt change tomorrow. Not been done and I'm now at 107,000 miles too

Was looking to do it myself but rang pentagon up for a quote ( and a laugh) but they shocked me with a £209 quote.
A proper Gates kit would cost me £105 so £100 labour with warranty is pretty good.
 
Spent 2 hours cleaning the tar off the drivers side of my car with WD40

Don't think it had ever been done as there was a lot of it. WD40 is the biz though.
 
DiNZi said:
Are those the Philips White Visions?
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Nope, just some eBay cheapy HIDs fitted into projector units. I have some Philips Xtreme Vision things which are much more yellow than the HIDs, I guess it's just the nature of this sort of product, most people want bright and blue lights rather than bright and yellowish. :p


This is how they look when off:

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Currently the car has no lights fitted though as I'm cleaning up the inner spots so they aren't as foggy and have been tidying up some light escaping from the back of the units / some ways in for dirt and water.
 
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