What have you done to your car today?

mrgubby · 13 Feb 2018 at 22:18

Fitted new hatch struts, one had failed & the car is only 4 years old

savagesam117 · 14 Feb 2018 at 19:31

My car got one of these gearbox things yesterday, apparently it's essential to making it move.

Now to take the shifter out, fit new and it's drive-able again!

Armageus · 15 Feb 2018 at 18:23

Booked the Zafira in for a service.

After being quoted a lol price of £390 for a major service from my local Vauxhall dealer (which I used for the minor at a competitive £159 including breakdown cover), rang a local Vauxhall specialist who quoted £230 and can fit in any time next week

Maccy · 15 Feb 2018 at 18:42

Put it up for sale

Raymond Lin · 15 Feb 2018 at 18:47

Clean the leather seats and car interior.

BananaDunka · 15 Feb 2018 at 20:38

These cabin filters have foam round the edge that the OEM ones don't. Guess it's a feature of the FreciousPlus. Much more snug a fit compared to the original.

Invertigo · 15 Feb 2018 at 21:10

mrk said:
These cabin filters have foam round the edge that the OEM ones don't. Guess it's a feature of the FreciousPlus. Much more snug a fit compared to the original.

I was curious about these, but it seems they didn't deem the Z4 market to be big enough to make one for. Ah well, guess I'll stick to normal carbon ones.

PardonTheWait · 15 Feb 2018 at 21:45

FINALLY got this **** out. Bit more blowtorch on it and it finally let go. Been dousing this with plusgas every other day for more than a week!

Also broke a g-clamp in half when the leaf pack bolt sheared off when I looked at it, but I got both leaf packs secured better with new bolts, also got some nice big fat washers on there to locate the leaf packs and lowering blocks much better on the rear end. It still can move somewhat but I think to get it spot on I'm going to need to have some new plates welded on the axle. Maybe time to invest in a MIG welder. Hmm.

Also my relined brake shoes arrived :cool:

Feeling like I'm going to go the whole hog with new rear wheel cylinders and have my master cylinder resleeved too.

grudas · 16 Feb 2018 at 12:01

selling a car privately is such a pita.

I can see why PXing is tempting.

Akagi · 16 Feb 2018 at 13:00

I'll give you 3800 cash now bruv.

grudas · 16 Feb 2018 at 13:22

Acme said:
I'll give you 3800 cash now bruv.

Pretty much lol.

Akagi · 16 Feb 2018 at 13:23

grudas said:
Pretty much lol.

Oh, no that was my offer.

Hyburnate · 16 Feb 2018 at 13:29

Seems never ending... Cars been handling like **** recently and was worried it was the bushes, my preferred garage said it sounded like it was my tyres (tramlining etc), they've put it up on the lift and the inners are wearing hard

Welp! 4 Wheel alignment today... I'll post the results when I get them.

grudas · 16 Feb 2018 at 13:58

Acme said:
Oh, no that was my offer.

I had a guy commited to buy it but he couldn't get finance accepted so pulled out. Ffs

Vita · 16 Feb 2018 at 14:20

grudas said:
selling a car privately is such a pita.

I can see why PXing is tempting.

Speaking of which. On the book of face a a guy sold his focus st. Had a buyer come and look for his partner and he was happy. Purchased the car and off they went. Went to get a forged rebuild and found the engine to be knackered? Anyway it went to court and the buyer won so seller is like £4k out of pocket.

Px these days is tempting but you just don't get as much as you know the car is worth.

wedrum · 16 Feb 2018 at 14:20

Changed the drop links on the E90
No more banging about.

Invertigo · 16 Feb 2018 at 15:18

grudas said:
I had a guy commited to buy it but he couldn't get finance accepted so pulled out. Ffs

Sounds familiar, had a guy leave a deposit with me after making it clear I was only accepting cash, only to phone me up 10 days later asking to pay by PayPal because he wanted to use a credit card.

Promptly told him where to get off!

Akagi · 16 Feb 2018 at 16:29

Paypal should be fine if he uses "friends and family" I think? There shouldn't be any way he can get that money back. At least not from you.

Invertigo · 16 Feb 2018 at 19:31

Read too many stories about people charging back by claiming it was unauthorized or something. Basically if already made it clear cash or a bank transfer was the only option, and had turned away other potential viewers in the meantime. Anyway, this was a couple of years back now!