What have you done to your car today?

[Snookums]

Backed it into a concrete block in the car park which had fallen over. Nice blurred bit on the bottom of the bumper.

Will never see it unless you put your ear on the road, but annoying...

.... Acme man, I can see why the stigma from your Celica build log has followed you

Was it the tank or the poodle groomer?

 

[Akagi]

If it was the tank I wouldn't have bothered posting about it.

Felt a little better, but felt bad for it, when I came into the office and mentioned it and my colleague said he did the same to his 2014 Fiesta ST a few days ago.

I'll gently file the burring off when I get the car home and nobody will know.

 

[On Holiday]

Interesting encounter on todays commute to work.

"I've got you on camera, you'll be getting a letter in the post"

Bloody dashcammers

 

[Snookums]

If it was the tank I wouldn't have bothered posting about it.

Felt a little better, but felt bad for it, when I came into the office and mentioned it and my colleague said he did the same to his 2014 Fiesta ST a few days ago.

I'll gently file the burring off when I get the car home and nobody will know.

if it was the poodle groomer I wouldn't have bothered posting about it

Always check the cars surroundings before getting in it, but hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Atleast it's only visible from the underneath.

After 3 years I'm still yet to scrap/dent either of my cars, (touch wood). I've got some catching up if i ever wanna get like you. Thats both cars in a week now!!!

 

[Akagi]

I was reversing into a space in the dark and didn't see that one of the concrete blocks at the back of the bay had fallen over. Thats my excuse anyway.

This is the first time I've actually damaged one of my cars, albeit slightly, since melding the Polo with a willow tree.

I heard a small bump and thought I'd just touched the block, but unbeknown to me the bumper had gone over it because it had fallen over, so I pulled forwards and it dragged on the bumper. If I realised what had actually happened I would have got out and pushed it off of it, hindsight and all that!

Anyway, gearbox and diff oil being changed later, looking forward to, hopefully, a marked improvement.

 

[Frozennova]

Acme, make sure you do the shift turret oil and gaiters as well. They we'reyhe single best thing I did for shift feel

 

[Armageus]

Took a girl from work out in the Focus, as she wanted to know whether the 1.0 Ecoboost was any good. Coming from her 1.5 Diesel clio, must have felt like a rocketship

 

[Akagi]

Its on the list, I've checked mine and they're all torn and there's probably no oil left.

 

[adam cool dude]

I've put just over 63 litres into what's apparently a 61 litre tank before so I've got no idea what the real capacity actually is. Obviously fuel in the filler nozzle etc means it can hold a bit more than the tank's capacity alone. I won't be pushing it like that again though.

I put 75 litres into my Saab's 70 litre tank once.

 

[ChrisD.]

I did a few things this weekend. First off, the DC5.

The head unit that was in the car is pump so I bought a Double DIN Android unit from Amazon for £209. They've been getting really good reviews so I thought why not. You get access to the Play store so you can install apps such as Spotify and what not. I was hoping it would cure left speaker not working as well.

Old one.

New one in. I may have to remove it again so I can fit the surround.

Mic location.

Very happy with it and I now have two working speakers! It's better than the one I had in the Evo which cost about £650 from memory.

Onto the Focus which had started sounding like a vacuum cleaner under boost and creating a lot of smoke out the back of it. MPG had also started to drop as well. I don't like spending money on it so I decided to take a look myself, and after a quick Google, it's a common fault for a bit of the hose to crack.

I spotted it pretty quickly on Friday, found a replacement hose on Amazon for £12 with Prime delivery so that was ordered and fitted on Saturday. There's a small breather/sensor that I broke because it was very brittle but a local garage bodged that for free.

The old hose.

New one fitted and with the bodge fix.

 

[inflames]

Played fuel light bingo in the LS460, it worked out at 0.19 L remaining

I am a Lexus fan, very nice car indeed .

Yesterday hoovered out both mine and the wife's car.

 

[Frozennova]

Got my insurance renewal through from greenlight, £389 for a year with everything declared

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

This is the first time I've actually damaged one of my cars, albeit slightly, since melding the Polo with a willow tree.

Does strapping the celica together with gaffer tape and liquid metal not count?

 

[Howard]

Just washed, clayed, and dried it. Coffee break now, then paint correction if necessary, before waxing.

 

[Uther]

It won't really be Acme's car until the bumper is held on with cable ties.

 

[grudas]

acme - think it's time to put your special sticker on the skoda

 

[Souljacker]

Replaced the horrible orange knob on my 350z with this lovely aluminium one.

 

[grudas]

that's a lovely knob! will get proper cold in winter and very hot in summer haha..

 

[Souljacker]

Haha, true enough. It's bloody cold here just now and it's not too bad, I'll pop a wee hat on it when the weather gets too extreme.

The OEM knob for comparison:

 

[Akagi]

Got my insurance renewal through from greenlight, £389 for a year with everything declared

Shut up.