What have you done to your car today?

Drove the E30 home.

I'm in love.

It sounds how I imagine God intended for a car to sound, orgasmic, beautiful.

Absolutely zero issues to report on the way home. :D
 
Firestar_3x said:
MOT history looks interesting though :p
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Theres nothing wrong with the MOT history? Its 26 years old. Theres the odd advisory for a bit of play in something here, and something being a bit loose there. Everything has been fixed and documented over the years. The only things outstanding are the items on the most recent MOT. :)
 
Wang said:
Quick heads up people. Halfords have their professional socket sets back on offer. For example, the 120 piece set has been reduced from £200 to £90 plus a further 15% off. Got this in the basket now for £76.
I'm right in thinking this is very cheap, aren't I?

http://www.halfords.com/workshop-to...846,433094,926352,303476,303468,303443,616353
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For that set yes, maybe.

£350 minus 15% off for the 200 piece set is a pee take, I paid no more than £130 for mine when on offer a year ago.

http://www.halfords.com/workshop-to...nced-200-piece-socket-and-ratchet-spanner-set
 
Vince said:
Not my car but Hired a van its a 64 plate VW jobbie and jesus, gearbox engine everything about it feels like you are driving a tractor. I thought they had come a long way but it seems not, it's agricultural as hell and the diesel engine in it makes a massive racket.

Had to go to London to load up ready for a trip to Northampton and then Wellingbrough tomorrow and it returned a massive 28mpg driving like mrs daisy, to be fair you can't drive it any other way but I did notice as I went to overtake somebody that it is also electronically limited to 70. :(
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The Transit is the largely the same, we've got one in work, brand new, but it drives like a tractor, noisy, massive turbo lag, horrible grabby clutch, it has almost no redeeming features, except you can chuck loads in the back of course..
 
Just when everything was going so well with the MR2, my alternator has failed :( ADAC took it to the local garage who quoted me 1200€ parts and labour, obviously assuming I was a tourist who needed the car running again to get back home. Have got it recovered back to my place instead and I have a spare alternator at home which my parents are going to send over, looks like a bit of a nightmare to fit but I'm going to give it my best shot.
 
Firestar_3x said:
I was referring to the raft of failed tests and the fact this should only really happen for this many items if either the owner didn't care, didn't want to really spend the money, or is clueless.
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Hardly any of it is stuff most people would notice prior to an MOT. Only the brake pad thickness and position light not working. And even then you'd have to take the wheel off to check the pad thickness. The rest is worn joints and bushes and things which could be hard to notice day to day.

geekman said:
quoted me 1200€ parts and labour
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Oh wow, theres taking the mick and then there is this! Recon alternator for £100 and half an hours work.
 
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Collected it from the bodyshop after 2 weeks of TLC, looking like new now bar a much smaller scuff on the carbon blade, which will be fixed in due course.

- 4 x Wheels back to bare alloy rebuild and repaint
- 2 x Sills painted and treated with stone protection system
- Rear bumper off, repainted, new grill slats added (wrapped grey off, gloss black on)
- Front bumper off, 3 x new grills added (black gloss too)

Next stage is fix carbon blade, full geo alignment and then full detailing.
 
Acme said:
Hardly any of it is stuff most people would notice prior to an MOT. Only the brake pad thickness and position light not working. And even then you'd have to take the wheel off to check the pad thickness. The rest is worn joints and bushes and things which could be hard to notice day to day.



Oh wow, theres taking the mick and then there is this! Recon alternator for £100 and half an hours work.
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not as bad as a garage who quoted me £770 + VAT to scrub off the rust and spray waxoil on the underside on the mazda..

my gf then went to a garage which is owned by he brothers mate and he said £50 and I'll do it :D
 
It won't be a proper job for £50.

A proper job would involve removing all wheels, covers, trays and arch liners, wire brushing the chassis and subframes and components, masking, applying rust treatment, then coating with a good quality underseal, applying cavity wax where needed, time to dry, and re-assembly. Not a £770 job, but easily a £300 job.

For £50 it will probably be a guy slapping waxoyl over the top of everything with a brush. :p
 
It's mates rates :) all he's going to do is grind off the surface rust and seal it with waxoil.

Couple of hours worth of work as the underside is not all rusty just patchy
 
New wheels from derranged, new bfg a/t tyres and derranged front grill

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Had a day out at AtSpeed Motorsport today for some Omex mapping. Couple of minor issues (alternator died and had a coolant leak from a split hose) but was a successful day overall.

At the rolling road day at Ti last year I made 208hp at 0.6 bar and got to 224 on the high boost setting before it leaned out and they backed off. Today it was in the 220s on the low boost setting and just shy of 270 on full boost.

Still need to sort the alternator but looking forward to the new season now.
 
kaiowas said:
Had a day out at AtSpeed Motorsport today for some Omex mapping. Couple of minor issues (alternator died and had a coolant leak from a split hose) but was a successful day overall.

At the rolling road day at Ti last year I made 208hp at 0.6 bar and got to 224 on the high boost setting before it leaned out and they backed off. Today it was in the 220s on the low boost setting and just shy of 270 on full boost.

Still need to sort the alternator but looking forward to the new season now.
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That's a cracking result, previous map must have been very very conservative on the ignition side?
 
Previous map was something of a fudge I think. The ECU I have was originally fitted to and set up on the engine when it was supercharged, then the previous owner killed the SC and fitted a cheap eBay turbo, I have no idea whether he had any remapping done or to what standard it was done but based on the rest of the conversion I suspected it wasn't likely to be right.

When I got it I swapped the turbo for a genuine Garrett and knew the map would need some work so today was the result of that.
 
Just a quick wash, gave some turtle wax super wash a go.

Quite impressive, it's not a soap as such more like a mild solvent cleaner, it did a great job of getting off some really caked in road salt.

Really miss not using my impact wrench, trouble is jobs are a doddle and over so fast it's not hard keeping on top of anything.
 
kaiowas said:
Previous map was something of a fudge I think. The ECU I have was originally fitted to and set up on the engine when it was supercharged, then the previous owner killed the SC and fitted a cheap eBay turbo, I have no idea whether he had any remapping done or to what standard it was done but based on the rest of the conversion I suspected it wasn't likely to be right.

When I got it I swapped the turbo for a genuine Garrett and knew the map would need some work so today was the result of that.
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At least you now know it's making good safe power, what does the MR2 weigh? I imagine it's less than my MX5 and it should put the power down better as well so it's going to be an absolute riot to drive
 
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