What have you done to your car today?

Robster68 · Post by **Robster68** » Tue Mar 21, 2023 4:50 pm

I managed to get headlight washers working,I know a lot of folk don’t like them but I prefer everything to function on the car.

Chris_D · Post by **Chris_D** » Tue Mar 21, 2023 5:23 pm

Robster68 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 4:50 pm I managed to get headlight washers working,I know a lot of folk don’t like them but I prefer everything to function on the car.

If you're so OCD about having the headlight squirters working then why in the name of all things totally irritating do you have a colour-mismatched front towing eye cover????!?!?!

Arrrrrrg! I can't bear to look at it!

MikeyH · Post by **MikeyH** » Tue Mar 21, 2023 5:35 pm

Chris_D wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 5:23 pm
Robster68 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 4:50 pm I managed to get headlight washers working,I know a lot of folk don’t like them but I prefer everything to function on the car.
If you're so OCD about having the headlight squirters working then why in the name of all things totally irritating do you have a colour-mismatched front towing eye cover????!?!?!

Arrrrrrg! I can't bear to look at it!

Yes, that would be more annoying to me also. Like brown shoes with a black trousers.

Robster68 · Post by **Robster68** » Tue Mar 21, 2023 7:18 pm

MikeyH wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 5:35 pm
Chris_D wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 5:23 pm
Robster68 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 4:50 pm I managed to get headlight washers working,I know a lot of folk don’t like them but I prefer everything to function on the car.
If you're so OCD about having the headlight squirters working then why in the name of all things totally irritating do you have a colour-mismatched front towing eye cover????!?!?!

Arrrrrrg! I can't bear to look at it!

Yes, that would be more annoying to me also. Like brown shoes with a black trousers.

When I bought it last year it was missing so picked one up from bmw and never got round to painting it,preferring to concentrate on all mechanical stuff first
Now put right

Scott Naylor · Post by **Scott Naylor** » Thu Mar 23, 2023 2:36 am

Had a really productive and helpful 2½ hours with Ben (Zebedee) following as usual a nice smooth rundown from Twickenham, the first time Ben has seen my newish acquisition. So longish list of priorities to cover off, whilst I was replacing the two headlamp bulbs with the amazing Philips 200%+ offering for dip and mainbeam, remaining street legal and will pass MOT, ended up with excellent seriously brighter lamps and a slight raise in colour temperature looking a tiny bit more white than yellow, Ben was plugging in to find no fault codes, hurrah, and then reset my roof which tripped, and removed additional spades added to the last new roof motor, two installed and left in old drowning position and not had buckets cleared out. Have to swap two hydraulic lines around as erroneously swapped oved on replacing old pipes!

Scott Naylor · Post by **Scott Naylor** » Thu Mar 23, 2023 2:39 am

Fog light bulbs also upgraded to Osram +200% still tungsten, far more effective too.

BumpyZ4 · Post by **BumpyZ4** » Thu Mar 23, 2023 4:38 am

Installed a MFSW. Of course, my car wasn't pre-wired

So I had to add the 2 wires from the clock spring to the LCM.

Mr_E85Bim · Post by **Mr_E85Bim** » Thu Mar 23, 2023 12:50 pm

Chris_D wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 4:26 pm Nothing. I just wanted to claim the 12,000th post in this thread!

I'll never get this time back

I can't believe nobody saw the funny side here

enuff_zed · Post by **enuff_zed** » Fri Mar 24, 2023 3:50 pm

Got fed up looking at manky facelift fog lights, full of debris and not an inch of reflective surface left.
So I took them off, soaked them in hot water for ten minutes and the lenses gently prised off.
Cleaned it all out and painted the inside black.
Found a cheap pair of LED DRLs on eBay, slotted them in and put it all back together.
Currently running off the standard foglight loom, so I have to have the sidelights on to get them to work, but this was a prototype and now I know it works I could wire them up to an ignition live as DRLs.
Bright sunlight when I took the photo, but if you zoom in a bit you'll see they don't look too bad.

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jock156 · Post by **jock156** » Fri Mar 24, 2023 4:28 pm

Good work!

enuff_zed · Post by **enuff_zed** » Fri Mar 24, 2023 4:48 pm

jock156 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 24, 2023 4:28 pm Good work!

Cheers. Read so many people saying they couldn't be repaired but then found someone saying they could be split with hot water.
Replacing the reflective surface wasn't really feasible, but the advent of these LED strips has made them recoverable.
Just waiting for dark to see if they are anything more than a cosmetic improvement.

DMike · Post by **DMike** » Fri Mar 24, 2023 5:03 pm

After a four-month wait finally received a new oem windscreen, which is going to storage for now. The original in my zed is still quite ok, but as a wearing part needs to be replaced in the next decade or two. They are discontinued and getting really hard to source. Yeah, ocd, I know.

Acestumacher · Post by **Acestumacher** » Fri Mar 24, 2023 8:23 pm

Fitted my 220m wheels this week, gave the roof a good clean again, man it’s bloody stubborn that lichen!, going to give white vinegar ago tomorrow.

jenniferlouise · Post by **jenniferlouise** » Fri Mar 24, 2023 9:24 pm

Had a full detail and machine polish with graphite hard wax. Some result shots will be shared once the rain stops

enuff_zed · Post by **enuff_zed** » Sun Mar 26, 2023 4:34 pm

Yesterday it rained a lot so I found an indoors job.
I'd noticed that the standard silver steering wheel trims, when scratched, seemed to show a shiny surface underneath.
So I set to with the edge of a 2p coin and carefully removed the top coat from the three spokes. Takes a while as it's easy to make scratches.
Then I fitted a Mewant faux leather cover that I've had for a while.
Having fitted one of these covers to wifey's car, I was missing the extra bit of width (..................................... pause left here for Pondy to add a ribald comment

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So my newly refreshed wheel is likely to stay with me and move from car to car as I buy/fix/sell.
With everyone going for the resprayed look I thought I'd go for something a bit different.

PS, yes I know the car is minging! Daily trips to the woods to run the dogs.

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