What have you done to your car today?

iaind · 29 Sep 2015 at 14:10

Oil in a diesel goes black within a few miles

Diagro · 29 Sep 2015 at 14:40

iaind said:
Oil in a diesel goes black within a few miles

>.<
Well it was like water anyway. They might have put the wrong oil in. Peace of mind and all that

Firestar_3x · 29 Sep 2015 at 14:57

Let someone else come out to my house and fit two new MPSS, old tyres down the the canvas on the inner edge

rodenal · 29 Sep 2015 at 15:07

Yeah oil in a diseasel looks very nasty very quickly.

Howard · 29 Sep 2015 at 15:11

Firestar_3x said:
Let someone else come out to my house and fit two new MPSS, old tyres down the the canvas on the inner edge

Event Tyres? I find them excellent.

[TW]Fox · 29 Sep 2015 at 20:11

Started it for the first time in 24 days. It worked. Which is handy.

Ace Modder · 29 Sep 2015 at 20:13

Had my wheels refurbished.

New wheel nuts arriving tomorrow - the old ones are dire.
New centre caps coming Thursday.

From

to....

Here are my crap centre caps.

acemastr · 29 Sep 2015 at 20:26

Good improvement! new wheel nuts too though

Firestar_3x · 29 Sep 2015 at 21:23

Howard said:
Event Tyres? I find them excellent.

A company called TyresOnTheDrive, GF's sister works for them so prefer spending money with them rather than Event.

Mucky_Pup · 29 Sep 2015 at 21:56

Made some strut brace spacers, will get them test fitted and drill holes in the strut brace to mount a power steering tank bracket then will be sending them to be powdercoated.

shadow_boxer · 29 Sep 2015 at 22:04

Ace Modder said:
Had my wheels refurbished....

Much nicer. Can I ask where you got them done?

Ace Modder · 29 Sep 2015 at 22:18

yes, top marques, duke street in Fenton, Stoke.

Same road that OcUK used to be at from 2000 to 2010.

In fact the owner of the wheel refurb company was also the co-founder of OCUK with Spie I believe.

mjt · 29 Sep 2015 at 22:47

[TW]Fox;28623164 said:
Started it for the first time in 24 days. It worked. Which is handy.

Meh. My GF's Chevy Spark started first time after sitting on the street for 7 weeks

Was surprised the handbrake hadn't seized though

But a 13-year-old BMW is slightly more impressive

[TW]Fox · 29 Sep 2015 at 22:52

Oh, that one won't start as I think I've screwed the battery

mjt · 29 Sep 2015 at 22:55

[TW]Fox;28623990 said:
Oh, that one won't start as I think I've screwed the battery

Oh. Not at all impressive then!

You been on holiday or something? Bit silly buying a diesel if you barely do any miles

Says the man who now seems to do only 650 miles a month

[TW]Fox · 29 Sep 2015 at 23:24

mjt said:
You been on holiday or something?

I was busy doing 4500 miles in the US

Bit silly buying a diesel if you barely do any miles

Good point! If only I'd have realised and bought a petrol one instead. Darn it!

thewanted · 30 Sep 2015 at 01:52

My Burger Motorsport JB1 piggyback arrived today for my Audi S1. It'll be a few weeks before I can fit it, but I am looking forward to the next rolling road meet already

geekman · 30 Sep 2015 at 09:41

Sold it! Got £4000, only £500 less than I paid for it, which isn't bad considering I put 60k miles on it. Only £300 less than I paid for my new one as well.

Here it is sitting outside it's new home in Barnes, hopefully it'll have a good life there

On Holiday · 30 Sep 2015 at 14:54

That's pretty good going then, did you pick it up cheap or have they gone up in value since you've owned it?

geekman · 30 Sep 2015 at 17:31

Archeum said:
That's pretty good going then, did you pick it up cheap or have they gone up in value since you've owned it?

Picked it up quite cheap (from an independent dealer, despite everyone on OCUK saying they're always a rip off) and sold it for top money as the buyer wanted the plate that was on it.