What have you done to your car today?
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Oh noes!
06 Plate Mazda 6mps
Should be as long as the belt didn't hit much else on it's way out of this world.
New belt - £15
Labour - £50?
Quite a good guess then
Yeah it's a fairly simple job to be honest, would only take a garage 30mins to do.
That must be the cambelt surely..? Totally different kettle of fish if so.
If thats £400 for a service and aux belt you're being taken for a wild ride.
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Finished up changing the cracked exhaust manifold on my parents E60, between the weather and waiting for bit's to arrive it took a lot longer than I would have liked.
Had a good few cracks in it, replaced with a new cast iron one as the stainless OEM ones are prone to this problem.
Had a good few cracks in it, replaced with a new cast iron one as the stainless OEM ones are prone to this problem.
Well I had some fun Sat just gone. The car has been running like a dream for months then on the day was due to be my car at my wedding, I get into it in the morning to take it for a wash and the dash lights up with low coolant warning. Turn around and go home, pull up and I see coolant dripping from the passenger side rad at the front. Queue frantic stripping down and 20 mins later I find a split in the return hose for the rad. Luckily I had loads of spare hoses from my cooling system rebuild so I cut one to size and secured it in place as a temporary fix.
Happy to report that the car made the wedding! I do need to review all the piping for the cooling system now as I thought that I had replaced it all but apparently not. I replaced some 18 hoses but clearly there are a few sneaky ones that I missed
Happy to report that the car made the wedding! I do need to review all the piping for the cooling system now as I thought that I had replaced it all but apparently not. I replaced some 18 hoses but clearly there are a few sneaky ones that I missed
I read through it and it sounds like it takes longer than the normal method.
I use a cocktail stick to put the paint in, sometimes use a de-nibber but i find wet and dry is fastest, some 2000 and 5000 on the end of a lolly pop stick, then some machine polishing.
Just need to wait for a dry day now, fingers crossed for this saturday.
Hardtop on, along with the new winter wheels and tyres...think I prefer the summer ones to be honest, the black goes better than gunmetal! Still better than flakey badly refurbished factory rims though . May change the Rota centre caps for the ones I have with the mazda logo, for a more factory look.
An OCD job that mrk would be proud of....I decided this little bracket in the engine bay was looking manky, the plating has failed and it was starting to rust...
The plating has started to go, it looked a mess, in my opinion its the small details that make an engine bay, I managed to get a replacement bracket from a 2013 car that was being scrapped, first used metal polish and wire wool to clean it up, hit it with some etch primer, then satin black paint, get some A4 stainless nuts/washers and re-installed it...neater now!
Got a CTEK maintenance charger for the car as well and you can see the flylead for this tied up. Really impressed with the CTEK, can see why they're the 'go to' brand whenever anyone asks for recommendations for a charger.
Gave the engine bay a mild spruce up as well:
Some suspension changes soon hopefully (doing what I should have done all along which is buy some Ohlins).
. May change the Rota centre caps for the ones I have with the mazda logo, for a more factory look.An OCD job that mrk would be proud of....I decided this little bracket in the engine bay was looking manky, the plating has failed and it was starting to rust...
The plating has started to go, it looked a mess, in my opinion its the small details that make an engine bay, I managed to get a replacement bracket from a 2013 car that was being scrapped, first used metal polish and wire wool to clean it up, hit it with some etch primer, then satin black paint, get some A4 stainless nuts/washers and re-installed it...neater now!
Got a CTEK maintenance charger for the car as well and you can see the flylead for this tied up. Really impressed with the CTEK, can see why they're the 'go to' brand whenever anyone asks for recommendations for a charger.
Gave the engine bay a mild spruce up as well:
Some suspension changes soon hopefully (doing what I should have done all along which is buy some Ohlins).
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