Car D.I.Y.

[Bonefish Blues]

My car cleaned and bulbs tested ready for the MOT. It's going to the same place as it did last year, and in 2020 the tester remarked that he could not believe the condition of the car for its mileage.

Was feeling energetic and the sun peeped out, so also did the plastics with Vista, which should keep them looking like new until the spring.

Then tested all lights, how, washers, degreased the screen and checked the wipers, reset the tyre pressures and had my tread depth gauge on them. It ain't going to fail.

Mrs D's car is gopping, but we're saying adios to it on Thursday 2nd when her new Polestar 2 arrives so I have little inclination to do anything about it.

Accy, the chicken one's best, I find.

 

[Drago]

Im a chow mein man myself.

Last week I drove past the factory where they were invented and made. I felt that I was in the presence of gods. A truly humbling experience.

 

[fossyant]

I dont think Mrs D's new car has a dipstick either. I'll know when it arrives on the 2nd.

Only you as the dipstick

 

[fossyant]

Son's car developed a slight petrol leak (petrol smell) Apparently the exhaust heat sheild has got hot, but was touching the tank and melted a bit of the plastic petrol tank (yikes). He drained the tank then has repaired it and moved the heat shield further away. I'll check when back from holiday and suggest some additional insulation.

I told him not to park it near the house until he's sure its not leaking.

 

[Drago]

Son's car developed a slight petrol leak (petrol smell) Apparently the exhaust heat sheild has got hot, but was touching the tank and melted a bit of the plastic petrol tank (yikes). He drained the tank then has repaired it and moved the heat shield further away. I'll check when back from holiday and suggest some additional insulation.

I told him not to park it near the house until he's sure its not leaking.

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RLG1ys2CGcI

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Im a chow mein man myself.

Last week I drove past the factory where they were invented and made. I felt that I was in the presence of gods. A truly humbling experience.

It's remarkable when you look back at some of the then exotic foods we craved as kids, isn't it?

Mine won't touch anything that hasn't taken me a week to make!

 

[fossyant]

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RLG1ys2CGcI

Doesn't bear thinking about as he's just back from doing the NC500 with loads of driving, hence the heat.

I'll check it when home. Must have been a tiny hole, but my word, could have got bad.

 

[tyred]

I cleaned the inside of my car's cigarette lighter in an effort to remove corrosion so hopefully my mobile phone charger will work more reliably.

I am tempted to try to fit another lighter socket or some sort of power point somewhere else in the car as Peugeot put the lighter socket in a rather awkward and charger unfriendly place deep inside the ashtray but I guess charging smart phones and other devices wasn't high on the list of designer's priorities back in the 1980s...

 

[JoeyB]

Bought a second hand oil sump for my 2012 Mini Countryman SD as I suspect it has a hairline fracture (or 4) and is leaking. The replacement sumps whilst OK on the outside seems to have a spiders web of cracks on the inside...I'm guessing they haven't gone all the way through as nothing is visible externally so I've ordered some JB Weld and some rotary burr attachments and will tidy up the replacement ready for fitting at the weekend.

Joy.

 

[CXRAndy]

I did a quick service on lads car.

Dropped oil and filter, air filter, new full synthetic oil 5w30 filter new wiper blades.

Took an hour, but I dropped a chubby a screwdriver, lost it in the sub frame, couldn't see it anywhere.

I had to dig out borescope camera to locate bloody thing, that nearly doubled the afternoon project

 

[MrGrumpy]

Not my car but mate at work likes his Mercedes cars. He’s just bought a C Class 2010 AMG 6.2 V8 for his daily drive . What a sound from the engine and rear end !! Pops and fires , sounds awesome .

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Nothing much recently, barring checking oils/washer bottles/expansion tanks & tyre-pressures on all 3 cars

Plus, fitting a 'breakaway cable' mount on my Kodiaq

 

[JoeyB]

Not my car but mate at work likes his Mercedes cars. He’s just bought a C Class 2010 AMG 6.2 V8 for his daily drive . What a sound from the engine and rear end !! Pops and fires , sounds awesome .

Always fanced one of the older C63s... sound glorious

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Always fanced one of the older C63s... sound glorious

I still fancy one of these..

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/uni-mogs.255060/

 

[MrGrumpy]

Sti ke

Always fanced one of the older C63s... sound glorious

non turbocharged and apparently revs to about 7000rpm

got a nice sticker on the boot lid ! “ life’s to short to drive a hybrid “