What have you done to your car today?
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Took it for an MOT and it passed. 
Unfortunately it got 2 advisories for the rear brake pipes.
It's where they pass under the floor just in front of the rear wheel. BMW put a plastic cover on them but it looks like it may just catch road crap!
Now I need to work out how to get under the car with no garage or decent jack (I've already got the Hammerite as my E46 had a similar problem last year)!
Unfortunately it got 2 advisories for the rear brake pipes.
It's where they pass under the floor just in front of the rear wheel. BMW put a plastic cover on them but it looks like it may just catch road crap! Now I need to work out how to get under the car with no garage or decent jack (I've already got the Hammerite as my E46 had a similar problem last year)!
1000rr said:polished the headlights to remove some cloudiness, re-stained and re-finished the drivers seat bolster, added door pin surrounds to match the gear knob and hand brake, put my black with red piping mats in.
Great looking sorted z top bloke to boot
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patriot66 said:Paulr said:
Unscrew the pins. Wrap a few turns of insulating tape around the pin so it fits snugly but doesn't bind in the hole. Screw back in place. No rattles !
Good idea, I am sorting the squeaky handbrake out this weekend, so the pins will be a welcome diversion!
Removed rear wheels & discs and lubed the handbrake mechanism, which stopped the squeak.
Then went for a spin and it sounded like a steam train, chuffing down the road. Seem to be coming from the err off side. Spent the whole afternoon removing the wheels and putting them back on to see what it was. Want rhea spacers. Wasn't the dust shields. Eventually put the rear wheels on the front and the noise moved there. It was the type of run flats tyre I have! Really noisy chufchifchuffchif as I drive down the road. Looks like I need to dump them and get some none run flats. Shame, they are almost new!
Then went for a spin and it sounded like a steam train, chuffing down the road. Seem to be coming from the err off side. Spent the whole afternoon removing the wheels and putting them back on to see what it was. Want rhea spacers. Wasn't the dust shields. Eventually put the rear wheels on the front and the noise moved there. It was the type of run flats tyre I have! Really noisy chufchifchuffchif as I drive down the road. Looks like I need to dump them and get some none run flats. Shame, they are almost new!
DA polished bonnet with megs ultimate megs polish and megs wax just the rest to do now really impressive stuff 
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Just driven it roof down 270 miles across 4 different counties English and Scottish, Cumbria, Dumfries & Galloway, Roxburghshire and Northumberland then back home into Cumbria, found some cracking roads too. Now car is back in the garage ready for cleaning tomorrow. 