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was going to sayIt's amazing that two really very simple functions still work?
What have you done to your car today?
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Soldato
It's amazing that two really very simple functions still work?
was going to say
Cheeky gits!
The fact many e9x BMW's we've had in the family have exhibited so many electrical issues, it's genuinely surprising how reliable the E46 seems to be in this regard..
Maybe I shouldn't admit that I jumped in this morning and finding the heated nozzles, wing mirrors, rear window all just 'worked' oddly surprised me!
Soldato
Ordered wheels and drag radials
Caporegime
Oh my God. I knew I had no life but wow...I hadn't noticed
Caporegime
Acme's post count in one thread is like 1/3 of my entire posting history since 2002.
Caporegime
I spent way too much of my time on these boards. If I close a tab I go about 20 seconds before opening another OcUK tab...
Had the car to StageX who unlocked Android Auto functionality on the headunit in the car. Renault build it in as standard but it's locked out, presumably to make people pay for the TomTom map updates.
Then on to Source Sounds in Sheffield for some advice about upgrading my stereo system as the speakers in this car are so poor I rarely use the radio for this reason. After much deciding we settled on replacing the door speakers and tweeters with their Rainbow DL-C5 kit, powered by an amplifier in the spare wheel well and an Audison compact sub in the boot (With inbuilt amplifier). All kit is being fitted by them also so will be a very clean professional install.
Then on to Source Sounds in Sheffield for some advice about upgrading my stereo system as the speakers in this car are so poor I rarely use the radio for this reason. After much deciding we settled on replacing the door speakers and tweeters with their Rainbow DL-C5 kit, powered by an amplifier in the spare wheel well and an Audison compact sub in the boot (With inbuilt amplifier). All kit is being fitted by them also so will be a very clean professional install.
Soldato
Fitted a replacement belt tensioner today. Took an hour from start to finish, most of which was spent jiggling the thing about trying to get the old one out of the gap and the new one to go back in. Whilst it is possible to buy the pulley on it's own, it's not far of the same cost as a whole new tensioner and since it's nearly 25 years old, it made sense to just replace the whole thing.
Soldato
In your defense its not your fault your mint MPS breaks 3 times a week.
Its not an MPS of something isn't broken...
For example, I believe the starter motor is broken. So I need to change that today lol
Caporegime
Fitted a replacement belt tensioner today. Took an hour from start to finish, most of which was spent jiggling the thing about trying to get the old one out of the gap and the new one to go back in. Whilst it is possible to buy the pulley on it's own, it's not far of the same cost as a whole new tensioner and since it's nearly 25 years old, it made sense to just replace the whole thing.
I tried to do just the pulley on my 9-5 and sheared the bolt undoing it so had to buy the unit anyway as I didn't trust drilling and tapping a part like that. I then cracked the cast when using my 1/2 drive extension in it to take the tension off. Not a very good design.
Soldato
The nightmare that I was slightly worried about. I was obviously lucky. I took the impact gun to the bolt holding the pulley onto the old one and it came straight off so now I have a spare assembly which I could swap a pulley on to.
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Had to remove and re-grease my sway(anti roll) bar bushings again... the cold weather (10c!) has made them squeak.... they still squeak. Sigh.
Running out of options other than put the stock ones back on.
Running out of options other than put the stock ones back on.
Soldato
Greased the delrin vertical links too... fingers are very much crossed
Red rubber grease normally works wonders and lasts loads
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Finally got around to changing the knackered old boot lifter struts after several months of them getting slowly worse and worse. It was such an easy job it's probably not even worthy of mention in this thread, but here we are!