What have you done to your car today?

Minxy · 5 Aug 2020 at 20:26

I’ve ordered a new company car. I’m stepping outside of my comfort zone with a BMW 330e Touring. Now I’m in for the long wait.

ericmcn · 5 Aug 2020 at 20:40

fitted a new LED strip to the rear spoiler - a bit of a ship in a bottle exercise, it has stop/tail light and indicators but the tail light function looks to interrupt the 2 tail bulbs so i will just stick to the standard stop light in the end.

https://youtu.be/3mYSqVQ6hxw

[TW]Fox · 5 Aug 2020 at 20:52

Minxy said:
I’ve ordered a new company car. I’m stepping outside of my comfort zone with a BMW 330e Touring. Now I’m in for the long wait.

About time

Minxy · 5 Aug 2020 at 21:29

[TW]Fox said:
About time

It was that, a Kuga or a Passat Estate, it wasn’t a tough decision but yes I have finally given in! I never thought I would see the day I ordered a BMW.

bainbridge · 5 Aug 2020 at 21:34

Did an oil change on the mx5 and while I was under there I examined the upstream o2 sensor which is throwing fault codes. No way is it coming out with the manifold in situ, so I'll have to remove the manifold to change the sensor and then reinstall. Oh well, at least I know the process having installed it a couple of years ago and I'll have all the necessary tools handy.

vanpeebles · 6 Aug 2020 at 20:18

Fixed the broken catches and window frames on the MGB. I now have working side windows on both sides, and also the pile of parts inside is continuing to get smaller!

Will Gill · 8 Aug 2020 at 11:47

MPE went on, wish I'd recorded a before and after, but safe to say it's orally epic, my fav noise is 3-4k upshifts, you can really hear the titanium 'ping'

Sadly whilst it was fitted we noticed my front MPSS were down to the cord on the very inside, so whilst annoying (they had about 1000 miles on them) I was glad to find out up on a ramp rather than on a motorway!!

So camskill are dropping round some MPS4S and I'll have to wait till Thursday to get them fitted, then I'll try and grab a video

Cookeh · 8 Aug 2020 at 11:55

Sorry, what? 1000 miles until they exposed the chords? On the front?

Will Gill · 8 Aug 2020 at 11:59

Cookeh said:
Sorry, what? 1000 miles until they exposed the chords? On the front?

Yep, must be my slammed/stanced setup

Temujin · 8 Aug 2020 at 12:58

Will Gill said:
MPE went on, wish I'd recorded a before and after, but safe to say it's orally epic, my fav noise is 3-4k upshifts, you can really hear the titanium 'ping'

I presume you mean aurally epic, and you're not showing your new exhaust a good time?

Conscript · 8 Aug 2020 at 13:17

Yesterday I fitted a reversing camera. It's not standard, or anywhere near the quality of a OEM cameras of today's cars, but for the princely sum of nine quid and an afternoon of my time, it's a great little "nice to have". Relatively easy to install too, once you've worked out the wiring.

Although I did have a fright when I went to start the car and it was completely dead. Thought I'd shorted something and killed the ECU. Turned out the battery had just drained whilst I'd been working with the boot and doors open for a couple of hours. Nob :/

robj20 · 8 Aug 2020 at 13:21

Filled in a few scratches and paint chips using a cocktail stick.
Will leave it a good week to dry then give it a wet sand and polish.

Will Gill · 8 Aug 2020 at 13:33

akaFonzie said:
I presume you mean aurally epic, and you're not showing your new exhaust a good time?

I meant both xx

Akagi · 8 Aug 2020 at 20:17

1000 miles and on the cords? :eek:

Time for an alignment, must be seriously, serious out... Or you've been driving on cheese graters at grate (!!!) speed.

Will Gill · 8 Aug 2020 at 21:21

Acme said:
1000 miles and on the cords?

Time for an alignment, must be seriously, serious out... Or you've been driving on cheese graters at grate (!!!) speed.

I can't say it looks particularly bad, but clearly it is. Moved the car to let my brother park in the driveway earlier, the exhaust is fairly fun

UnworthyBean · 8 Aug 2020 at 21:37

Put mine in to eco mode and sat behind a lorry for 27 miles to see how much I could make it sip fuel. Pretty respectable for a 234bhp 2.0 litre.

Akagi · 8 Aug 2020 at 22:12

You forgot to include the D word. "Diesel"

I can see your rev limiter sir!

agw_01 · 8 Aug 2020 at 22:20

Conscript said:
Although I did have a fright when I went to start the car and it was completely dead. Thought I'd shorted something and killed the ECU. Turned out the battery had just drained whilst I'd been working with the boot and doors open for a couple of hours. Nob :/

How old is the battery? I wouldn't expect a couple of hours powering a few low wattage bulbs to kill the battery by that margin.

mikeyw85 · 8 Aug 2020 at 22:21

hotdog said:
How much difference is there? I hate the m140i and it's crap infotainment restrictions - to my mind absolute waste of cash having the pro system - don't even get me started on the Harmon crapdom speakers!

I can't think of a car in that class with a better system than the BMW. Considering it's old enoguh there's a new model now, it's especially good. I didn't have the HK speakers, just the BMW advanced ones, which i thought were worth it. iDrive is verygood though, whether it's 5 or 6. The navigation is good, the voice command is good etc. I had the Pro system that I thought included the bigger screen, which is definitely worth it.

UnworthyBean · 8 Aug 2020 at 22:26

Acme said:
You forgot to include the D word. "Diesel"

I can see your rev limiter sir!

Shhh, don't tell anyone!

It was tedious getting those figures in a diesel, think to get them in a petrol I'd have given up.