What have you done to your car today?

["andy"]

Changed my front top mounts

Failed to adjust the coilovers though . Job for another day and a hammer and chisel I think

 

[233]

priced up a 10k service for the new taxi, Peugeot ecosse want a reasonable £96 quid have to phone up on Monday and book her in sharpish, 10k miles in 8 weeks

 

[Pabl0]

Changed the rear discs and pads, managed to avoid most of the rain but I concur working in the rain sucks! only bettered by working in the snow!

 

[Snaggle]

Was having some ongoing issues with the Primera and incoming MOT so spent 2 weekends under the car in the snow

Passenger lower arm/drop link/track rod end and drive shaft plus disks and pads all round + rebuild of front calipers and strip and clean on rears . New cat and a few fixes for a few little annoying things .

Not fun in - temps but needed to be done . Leaving the bonnet open and letting the engine get covered in snow was abit daft.. new plugs and leads required after i got a real bad misfire . All sorted now and fresh MOT . Just need to get bike sorted now

 

[GTAMADDOG]

Just gave it the usual Sunday spruce up.

Then I noticed my dad's Fabia vRS sat there looking sorry for itself as I don't think it's been cleaned since before Christmas. It's not like him to leave a car uncleaned for so long, but there's a woman in the mix now so the cars seem to suffer because of that. So I gave the Fabia a wash as well.

Somehow managed to clean two cars under dark grey clouds without one drop of rain coming down, so I thought that was quite a result

 

[Relentless81]

Removed the intake resonator, pain in the arse but its done

 

[Hawk Tuah]

Added a few extra controls. It's tight and diddly under the dash!

 

[Jonny ///M]

Tried to make it pass it's MOT come August by sorting out the ruined discs.








Braking hard feels better and seems better as you would expect. Last person to do the brakes must have hammered the pads into the carrier as they were jammed tight. Both now spin free and no binding from my initial drive.

 

[Clarkey]

How's it possible to have that much corrosion on the braking surface, surely the calipers are seized?

 

[alexisonfire]

Got underneath the car today and gave all nuts and bolts a going over on pretty much everything, as i didn't want a repeat of brands with bits of car falling off :lol: Now all ready for snett

Also finished stripping and tidying the doors of motors, wiring, brackets/frames etc, ready for my MK2 "budget homemade trackday doorcards".

 

[Jonny ///M]

How's it possible to have that much corrosion on the braking surface, surely the calipers are seized?

That was my initial thought but they wound back in ok and the metal on the piston beneath the rubber seal was in perfect condition. Obviously the bore might be in a slightly different state but we will see.

Will have a look at them come the end of the month to check all is still ok.

 

[kona786]

Fitted ma Enkei's

Before:

Spoiler

Before lowering 35mm

 

[Muffin`]

Lovely

Shame about the rubber

 

[Duke]

Nice improvement.

 

[Relentless81]

Looks great

 

[danza]

Very nice.

 

[Bradmax57]

Dear Lord, i've never seen discs and pads as bad as those on the previous page

 

[Matt82]

Fitted koni adjustable dampers on the m3

 

[Pabl0]

Fitted a new pollen filter as the old one was vile!

 

[danza]

Dear Lord, i've never seen discs and pads as bad as those on the previous page

Pfff, there's still metal there, some life left in them yet.

Finished fitting a new waterpump and thermostat to my wife's E39 including a cooling system flush & refill. Gave the engine bay a much needed clean whilst I was there.

Fingers crossed for no leaks!