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  1. GTAMADDOG

    What have you done to your car today?

    Yesterday I did an oil change on the E46 which is now on 210k miles. I wanted to change the oil in the E92 as well, but contractors were messing about with a manhole cover out the front of the house most of the day, so I only had time to do one oil change. Just finished changing the oil on the...
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    Winter car issues / moans

    I've got an E46 330d (aka Shed Mk2) which currently has zero functioning glow plugs thanks to a failed module, a membrane in the passenger door that lets water in and an asthmatic blower motor. I'm not driving it too much at the moment because of the salty roads, but I wanted to take it on a run...
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    Mens Shower Gel

    I usually just rely on whatever I get at Christmas or on my birthday and have no particular preference as long as it makes me smell a bit less like oil and diesel. Thanks to Christmas I now have a choice between Radox, Dove, Nivea, Lynx and L'Oreal in various scents for 2024. I did conciously...
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    Merry Christmas!

    Merry Christmas. I was feeling a bit ill earlier in the week last week and since then I've tested positive for Covid (and have done again today), so Christmas is all but cancelled for me, a day in on my own. New Years looking the same at this rate.
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    How Long Have You Off For Christmas

    Finished on Friday 15th, back in on 2nd January. I booked this week as annual leave (I do every year) because I don't want to deal with people moaning/asking about stuff that isn't important just before Christmas. The office is closed between Christmas and New Year anyway, so may as well make...
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    COVID-19 (Coronavirus) discussion

    Welp. It has finally got me. I haven't been feeling great since I finished work on Friday, but I feel a bit better today and wanted to collect a parcel and shop for food, so I decided to take a test out of curiousity and I've finally tested positive. I have had three jabs, so I guess that plays...
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    What have you done to your car today?

    My 335d passed its first MOT in my ownership on Tuesday after needing a new control arm on the rear, which was interesting because I thought all my problems were with the front suspension. Just over 24 hours later I hit a decent sized pothole in the dark on the way back from visiting my mum. It...
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    EA WRC -

    Decided to give it a try by signing up to EA Play for 79p as a new member, after the 5 hour trial runs out I can try some other EA stuff until they try charging me £4/month, I guess. I'm a car guy/rally person at heart, so unless the game turned out absolutely dreaful then I was always going to...
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    *** Car Wash / Valet / Detailing Thread ***

    Got a bit twitchy and ordered some more stuff to try from in2detailing: TAC System Mystic Bubble pH Neutral Shampoo - Seems to be a bit under the radar and is a decent price for a 1500:1 shampoo. CarPro Hydro2 Lite Wipeless Sealant - I think I may have used it a number of years ago, but I...
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    What have you done to your car today?

    Today is car cleaning day. Yesterday, I took the E46 to have a wheel alignment done after I had to fit a new control arm to get it through its MOT. Apparently, the ball joint had excessive movement, but when I removed the control arm all I struggled to see anything wrong with it and I didn't...
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    *** Car Wash / Valet / Detailing Thread ***

    Just bought some GT Shampoo myself, if it seems good I might be tempted to buy a big bottle of shampoo for a change. I've been using Autobrite Purple Velvet for around 12 months and have been more than happy with it, but just fancied trying something different. On top of that I bought: Gyeon...
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    *** Car Wash / Valet / Detailing Thread ***

    I've always done a quick single bucket wash after claying. Doesn't have to be a mega wash as the car will be pretty clean already and the car will be polished afterwards anyway. Would like a DA polisher as I still polish by hand, too. Also want a pressure washer as well, but the old BMWs keep...
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    What have you done to your car today?

    Did an easy job on the E92, even for me. New brake pads and wear sensor on the rear. When it comes to brake calipers and pads, there seems to be no difference to what is on the E46, so that made things even easier. I would've thought that they would have at least changed something about the...
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    *** The Car Cleaning Thread ***

    Aside from my wheels I haven't used a sponge on a car for nearly 12 years. After passing my driving test I started out with a sponge, but pretty quickly moved to lambswool wash mitts and now microfibre mitts because I got fed up of lambswool mitts falling apart rapidly. I've seen people using...
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    *** The Car Cleaning Thread ***

    I saw on the news earlier in the week that parts of Devon and Cornwall now have water restrictions in place because their reservoirs are a lot lower than they usually are at this time of year. We're only just about to hit May and we haven't had any particularly decent spells of dry/sunny weather...
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    What have you done to your car today?

    The only proper way to inspect the sills is to remove the plastic sill cover and snap a load of securing clips in the process. To a small extent you can see how the jacking points themselves are holding up by laying on the ground and looking up at the immediate area surrounding each of the four...
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    What have you done to your car today?

    Not immediately because one rear wheel arch is fairly crusty now which means the sill won't be much better (probably worse), but the car has been up on axle stands for two months so the jacking points can't be that bad otherwise they would have collapsed already. The plan is to have someone who...
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    Have any big News events happened locally to you?

    Fred West had to be the one that got the most air time. Also had the Shaun James murder that still hasn't been solved. There was also the Hollie Gazzard murder. Then, if we're allowed to go pretty far back (before I was born), there was the Severn Railway Bridge Disaster.
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    Show Us Your Motors!

    Just going to leave a photo of my two sheds here now that the E46 has returned and they're both cleaned up. 2004 330d which I will have owned for 10 years in January 2024 and the 2009 335d that I bought a couple of weeks ago. Over 100,000 miles difference between the two and I can positively...
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    What have you done to your car today?

    Did the last couple of bits to secure the new brake lines on the E46. Messed about with the handbrake which still needs more adjustment. Applied Lanoguard over the majority of the rear of the car. Took it for its first drive after being sat on axle stands for two months. I started it for the...
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