What have you done to your car today?

Mirage · 16 Jul 2015 at 11:51

Cleaned up the rear and front bays a little on the VX, nothing much, just some elbow grease, a toothbrush, small sponge and microfibre.

Bradmax57 · 16 Jul 2015 at 11:56

geekman said:
It was some weird brand I'd never heard of but seemed to do the trick. And I only remembered the valve once I'd sprayed about 2 coats over it

I think when I did it last I spent more than that per wheel so hats off to you, think next time ill just get them done professionally tho

meh? · 16 Jul 2015 at 12:37

Sat in TC Harrison in Derby having a new illuminating sill plate fitted on my ST-2 Fiesta after the old one refused to light up :'( 2hr's and still waiting lol

rodenal · 16 Jul 2015 at 14:32

Another bit of fine craftsmanship to repair my passenger side folding mirror.

Looks just like the £2 fix it is! Thankfully nobody will ever see it

Dup · 16 Jul 2015 at 22:49

Mines in my glovebox, still need to fix it. Soldered on a new one but it doesn't work still

Stormster · 17 Jul 2015 at 00:01

Rybo89 said:
He basically got a cowboy painter to do it, who didn't do the job Stormster paid for.

Stormster being a soft old sod keeps letting him have another crack at it. Guessing this is the last time though?

Definitely giving up after this attempt dude lol bonnet, doors, rear 1/4's this time due to microblisters coming back through and the bonnet is just a crap finish. He admitted he didn't go back to bare metal, more fool him, so he's got to do it properly. Must have cost him a bomb now!

Scania · 17 Jul 2015 at 01:27

Finally got my rocker cover gasket replaced today along with having my codes read and an intermittent misfire finally diagnosed as a duff coil, car is transformed!

Car feels like it's had an engine swap!

Very pleased and wishing I'd had it done sooner!

rodenal · 17 Jul 2015 at 07:47

Dup said:
Mines in my glovebox, still need to fix it. Soldered on a new one but it doesn't work still

I've done two now (one on my old diesel a couple of years ago) and it was obvious where the isue was once off - if your old polyfuse looked in good nick then maybe it's another part of the gubbins inside - can't say I've ever dug the rest of that resin'y crap out as it's annoying enough doing that section so would be inclined to just buy a new one. Think they're about £45

[TW]Fox · 17 Jul 2015 at 08:12

Stormster said:
Definitely giving up after this attempt dude lol bonnet, doors, rear 1/4's this time due to microblisters coming back through and the bonnet is just a crap finish. He admitted he didn't go back to bare metal, more fool him, so he's got to do it properly. Must have cost him a bomb now!

I don't understand why you keep giving him attempts to do this work. Surely by now it must appear that he is simply not capable of doing the job requested? Continual repaints is not good for the car surely?

rodenal · 17 Jul 2015 at 09:17

Wouldn't do it any harm if the panel is taken back properly each time - doesn't sound like that's happening or like the guy is up to much in general. Think I'd of had someone else fix it

mrk · 17 Jul 2015 at 14:14

Interesting day...

I ordered a new pair of wing vents to replace the aged looking (up close anyway, hence bothering me!) original ones. I found a pair on eBay for £30 brand new, made in Taiwan so not OEM but a replica. I was fine with this as long as the quality was up to scratch. For £30 it was worth a punt as a pair from the dealer costs £112.

They arrived today:

The fins are chrome finished just like OEM ones, the M sticker is OEM quality too and the abd plastic feels and looks the same too. I noticed that the edge of the fins are not finished as smoothly as OEM fins though, and upon picking one edge revealed that the fins are merely chrome plates. the BMW ones appear to be chrome throughout. The £30 one started to peel :eel:

I I am standing there thinking wtf, then realised that since the OEM ones are fully chrome, I could just Autosol them to look like new and spray the abs plastic with a rattle can to restore the blackness.

^ The fin underneath is after Autosol rubbing. Neat.

And to end...

Double neat!

I'll buy a £2 can of chrome spray paint and paint over the flaky fin on the £30 pair, then throw them on eBay/Gumtree for £25.

Mucky_Pup · 17 Jul 2015 at 15:06

Renewed my insurance today, insured for 420BHP as well, so just need to get some money together to get my mods put on

mjt · 17 Jul 2015 at 17:19

Spent €900 fixing the Passat lolol

Who knew that fixing a rear door that's locked shut would take nearly 5 hours :eek:

Indicator stalk replaced @ €225 and a coolant leak fixed.

So this €2000 car isn't really a €2000 car

Thankfully I'm only paying for the indicator stalk replacement.

Unfortunately, the other rear door lock is playing up and that will need replacing as well. I've seen a guide on a passat forum but it looks far too complex for me.
Guess I'll have to fork out €200(!) for the part + labour at my indy.

Sometimes I wish I lived in the UK where I could take parts I bought online to a garage who'd fix it for peanuts. Thankfully I'm [only] paying €50/hr for labour.

In other news, it turns out that facelift Passat 3B6s have different front wiper arms to pre-facelifts :rolleyes:

rodenal · 17 Jul 2015 at 17:39

That reminds me, I keep meaning to spray my wiper arms to make them look a bit more presentable again

ianh · 17 Jul 2015 at 17:50

Paid a bunch of extremely hard working eastern Europeans to clean my car ready for the meet tomorrow. 4 guys spent about 30minutes doing it and it only cost £10!

***EDIT*** Just replaced the wiper blades with some Bosch AeroTwin's!

Antony101 · 17 Jul 2015 at 18:56

ianh said:
Paid a bunch of extremely hard working eastern Europeans to clean my car ready for the meet tomorrow. 4 guys spent about 30minutes doing it and it only cost £10!

***EDIT*** Just replaced the wiper blades with some Bosch AeroTwin's!

Our friendly local eastern Europeans only charge £5, you've been conned. Free air "freshener" too.

~Divine~Wind~ · 17 Jul 2015 at 23:34

Tax
Insure
Full Timing Chain/VVT kit

Velocity red ftmfw!

adam cool dude · 17 Jul 2015 at 23:45

Fixed the alarm on my Saab 9-5. They seem to go bad after around ten years so set about sorting mine out as having the alarm go off at night doesn't help!

Only snag is you need to cut it open and glue it back together. Bought a kit off Ebay with two new batteries and new capacitors.

Reset my ECU and the information display is no longer showing an error so fingers crossed for a decent nights sleep!

nicholas_yiu · 18 Jul 2015 at 10:56

Cleaned the EGR valve and the EGR distribution plate on my ATR as I am getting some hesitation between 4-5KRPM@WOT. Took it off and it looked OK. The only bit that I managed to clean out is the passage between the EGR valve and the distribution plate.

Gave it a good clean and a gasket change while I am there. Now, the hesitation is gone and throttle response is better. Quite happy with that.

Also tried to fix the oil leak around the transmission side of the head. Took the spool valve off. The gasket looks perfect but had it changed anyway. Next is the rocker cover gasket and the cam end seal.

It is getting so bad the whole of the transmission and the back of the engine is covered in oil and is dripping onto my drive as well. I am losing about 1L every 500 miles at the moment!

Stormster · 18 Jul 2015 at 11:06

[TW]Fox;28322024 said:
I don't understand why you keep giving him attempts to do this work. Surely by now it must appear that he is simply not capable of doing the job requested? Continual repaints is not good for the car surely?

So live with wasting £1200? Or pay double again on top for someone else to do it?

I don't understand why you don't understand why I will keep taking it back until it's right?

I'm probably selling it once it's done. I can't gel to it, all I like about the car is that it's very fast on the road for what it is but that's it. Nothing else about it interests me.

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