What have you done to your car today?
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I was surprised as well but under closer inspection there's a lot of damage.
Bumper, crash bar, the other front support structure, both headlights have snapped off their mountings, grill, and the O/S panel has been pushed out of line.
The impact has also pushed the airco radiator and fans within millimetres of the aux belt.
Granted, that price was from a body shop using VW parts plus labour, paint and markup.
Sure, I could use pattern parts and a shoddy workshop but it really isn't worth the effort. I don't have the time or expertise to mess around with it.
More importantly, it'll be used to transport a newborn baby and should something happen again....
Bumper, crash bar, the other front support structure, both headlights have snapped off their mountings, grill, and the O/S panel has been pushed out of line.
The impact has also pushed the airco radiator and fans within millimetres of the aux belt.
Granted, that price was from a body shop using VW parts plus labour, paint and markup.
Sure, I could use pattern parts and a shoddy workshop but it really isn't worth the effort. I don't have the time or expertise to mess around with it.
More importantly, it'll be used to transport a newborn baby and should something happen again....
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Soldato
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I was going to do my brakes and oil change today.......Bent my tyre iron so went and grabbed another from halfords.
Took the wheel off to find I didn't have the correct size hex and torx bits for the calipers so on goes the wheel again and I go back to halfords to get them.
Get back home and then I strip the flipping locking nut and key so I've given up, Bought the locking nuts already but just after a removal tool now to get them off
Got my locking nut drilled out today by Citroen, Took 30 minutes and was charged £35.....Bargain.
Proceed to try and do my brakes but the caliper bolt was too tight to get the disk off so I put it all back together again and now my spring is twanging, I have only just had my top mounts done the other month so I have no idea what I've done this time.
Going to leave it to the mechanics from now on
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Changed both my upper arms today.
As my wife is away for the weekend, I thought it is perfect opportunity to do some work on the car. Problem is I've got the children. My plan is to put them to bed for their afternoon nap, prepare their dinner then start working on the car.
I started with the right which is the problematic side. All the bolts for taking the damper out came out with no problem at all, even the pinch bolt came off OK with a standard breaker bar. I think soaking everything in penetrating fluid overnight has worked well.
However, when the damper was ready to be taken off, I realised I have more than enough room to get a torque wrench in to the upper arm bolts just by swinging the damper out of the way and that's what I have done:
This is why the car sounds like it's falling apart:
And the ball joint has collapsed and seized!
Done the other side as well and put everything back together.
All done before the children finish their dinner as well. I am well happy with today's work.
Tomorrow will be fixing the oil leak from the cam end seal, getting the headcover re-sprayed and doing the tappet clearance. Still quite a few jobs to do before I am happy with the car but it's slowly getting there.
As my wife is away for the weekend, I thought it is perfect opportunity to do some work on the car. Problem is I've got the children. My plan is to put them to bed for their afternoon nap, prepare their dinner then start working on the car.
I started with the right which is the problematic side. All the bolts for taking the damper out came out with no problem at all, even the pinch bolt came off OK with a standard breaker bar. I think soaking everything in penetrating fluid overnight has worked well.
However, when the damper was ready to be taken off, I realised I have more than enough room to get a torque wrench in to the upper arm bolts just by swinging the damper out of the way and that's what I have done:
This is why the car sounds like it's falling apart:
And the ball joint has collapsed and seized!
Done the other side as well and put everything back together.
All done before the children finish their dinner as well. I am well happy with today's work.
Tomorrow will be fixing the oil leak from the cam end seal, getting the headcover re-sprayed and doing the tappet clearance. Still quite a few jobs to do before I am happy with the car but it's slowly getting there.
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Sold it!
Farewall mazda 6mps
After selling both the MPS's do I go cheap run around and grab a 2l turbo something and save the rest in hope the rumoured 2016 MPS range.
Or spend it now and get something like an evo or some old jap turbo affair
Farewall mazda 6mps
After selling both the MPS's do I go cheap run around and grab a 2l turbo something and save the rest in hope the rumoured 2016 MPS range.
Or spend it now and get something like an evo or some old jap turbo affair
Soldato
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Amplified digital aerial fitted.
Reversing camera fitted. (please ignore the cracked concrete!
).
Reversing camera fitted. (please ignore the cracked concrete!
).
Get something Jap....evo's are nice
Soldato
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Attempted to undo both front brake caliper guide bolts. Failed miserably. Need to go get a breaker bar and some WD40.
Added a new headlamp washer cover. Which has taken over a year to get around to once I found out the washer cap attaches to the top of the washer pump thing and the whole job was going to cost me £100.
Although, I did take measurements of the parts and my 3D printed repairs are on their way, so I'm hoping to salvage the old pump which worked absolutely fine, just snapped a tiny bit of plastic at the top.
And she's complete again. Oh and I did a full big clean, shampoo'd, clayed, polished, waxed. 5 hours torturing myself..
Although, I did take measurements of the parts and my 3D printed repairs are on their way, so I'm hoping to salvage the old pump which worked absolutely fine, just snapped a tiny bit of plastic at the top.
And she's complete again. Oh and I did a full big clean, shampoo'd, clayed, polished, waxed. 5 hours torturing myself..
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I have:
1. Re-sprayed the head cover.
2. Fix the oil leak from the cam end seal, changed the rocker cover gasket in the process
3. Reset the tappets while I was there, exhaust are pretty much mid spec but intake were a bit loose. Tightened them up and surprised how much difference it made.
For some reason, I couldn't find any before pictures but it was bad as most of the red has pealed off the engine cover. I am not 100% happy with the finish. Instruction from the can told me to put on 3 really thick layers in 5 minutes interval for it to wrinkle properly. However, I think I have overdone it so there are runs. I think the paint wrinkle a bit too much as well. However, I don't think I have the will to get it all sanded off again.
1. Re-sprayed the head cover.
2. Fix the oil leak from the cam end seal, changed the rocker cover gasket in the process
3. Reset the tappets while I was there, exhaust are pretty much mid spec but intake were a bit loose. Tightened them up and surprised how much difference it made.
For some reason, I couldn't find any before pictures but it was bad as most of the red has pealed off the engine cover. I am not 100% happy with the finish. Instruction from the can told me to put on 3 really thick layers in 5 minutes interval for it to wrinkle properly. However, I think I have overdone it so there are runs. I think the paint wrinkle a bit too much as well. However, I don't think I have the will to get it all sanded off again.
All the bulges on the inner tyre though, no idea how that could have happened. Needless to say that car's going nowhere until that's been changed.
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Overnight parts from Japan?
Soldato
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Got my locking nut drilled out today by Citroen, Took 30 minutes and was charged £35.....Bargain.
Proceed to try and do my brakes but the caliper bolt was too tight to get the disk off so I put it all back together again and now my spring is twanging, I have only just had my top mounts done the other month so I have no idea what I've done this time.
Going to leave it to the mechanics from now on
Went to the main dealers today to collect my car, Broken front spring.....well not so much broken but somehow collapsed on itself near the top mount.
Had it booked in today at my indy to change wishbones so I had to pick up 2 springs aswell.....Thats another £300 bill for parts and labour this month. I hate Citroens
