What have you done to your car today?

[AndyJ1]

Finished off replacing my offside rear wheel bearing. Took about 9 hours all in including have to do a round trip of 90 miles to get a hydraulic puller from work to push out the drive shaft. Needed heat and the puller to shift it. Later found out the BMW use adhesive on these when they originally assembled the car. No wonder it was difficult to get out. Here’s a couple of pic’s







One major mishap I had was somehow dislodging the handbrake cable at the handbrake end when re installing the brake shoes
Does anyone know if the cables can be accessed from inside the car? Don’t fancy taking the exhaust and prop shaft out to get to the mechanism below.

Good news is that the noise I could hear was the wheel bearing and not the diff. Nice and quiet now.

 

[Robster68]

My front light repair kit arrived,works well.

 

[grannyknot]

Good to know, just ordered some myself.

 

[Robster68]

Good to know, just ordered some myself.

You need to keep the metal sleeve from original broken bracket in 2nd photo if you have it,this isn’t supplied.

 

[Vijay]

Not driven her a while, so took her out this evening for a tune-up.
Nearly forgot, what an absolute joy to drive!
Got home, parked in garage, where I was glowered at through the kitchen door...

 

[Dave1971]

Decided to have a go at relocating the roof motor. It's still the original motor with all the tape and tie wraps still in place so it put up a little bit of a fight. It's in very good condition for 18 years old, just a little surface rust.

 

[Griffo46]

Decided to have a go at relocating the roof motor. It's still the original motor with all the tape and tie wraps still in place so it put up a little bit of a fight. It's in very good condition for 18 years old, just a little surface rust.

Good work, did you tie it down and conceal it? I plan to do this over the winter.

 

[Dave1971]

Decided to have a go at relocating the roof motor. It's still the original motor with all the tape and tie wraps still in place so it put up a little bit of a fight. It's in very good condition for 18 years old, just a little surface rust.

Good work, did you tie it down and conceal it? I plan to do this over the winter.

I've had 2 of my previous cars done by the famous Durham Dave and I was going to take this one to him as well but thought I'd have a go myself. I definitely wasn't as quick as Dave but he's had a lot more practice than me. I'm happy with the results though

 

[MikeyH]

Your a lot braver than me. Well done

 

[AndyJ1]

Released the parking brake service lock following replacement of rear wheel bearing last weekend! Now have a working hand brake :roll:

 

[Scott Naylor]

Been a tad lying in very strange contortions in the boot! This is all about my known issue with the roof electro-hydraulic motor, and with the fantastic advice from Zebedee Ben on the overall operation of diagnosing and removal.and relocation, and then Mat who is fitting a replacement more deep throaty exhaust for me in the next couple of weeks, I've heard the motor pumping on down.and up, and the front rail above the windscreen locking is working fine, the central lockout is working fine and put a socket into the Spring to continue the activation.

So the fun was finding the route to removing the left hand rail,.there was one hidden plastic rivet in the vertical plane hidden which required the removal with nose pliers of a plastic plug, which then released the rivet which was holding the plastic rubber cover to the wheelarch internally which was holding the rail, this was missed in a lot of guidance!

The plug is half way along the rail.and is pretty hidden. So finally.worked.it out and got this.out so stopped wrecking my elbow on this rail whilst lying with my self wedged into the boot stretched out with a head into the corner to try to see the motor in the torch light.

 

[Barty]

Finally got round to fitting a few bits of custom made carbon, as well as the new doorpanels and extra door speakers. Sound has improved noticeably and should make the trip next week more enjoyable

 

[buzyg]

Well as we have a hose pipe ban, the MR needed a wash and it was chucking it down with rain today. I drove it out of the garage and washed it, simply using the rain water that was hammering down.

Back to being sensible in the morning. I'm off for another walk on Dartmoor. :wink:

 

[Robster68]

Having tested positive for Covid on Monday,
Off work so decided to tackle one of those jobs bugging me,drilling out rusty exhaust manifold studs.

 

[Barty]

Driven it for 500 miles to south Germany. Tomorrow: roadtrip through the alps to Como

 

[ronk]

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Driven it for 500 miles to south Germany. Tomorrow: roadtrip through the alps to Como

Via the Splugen?

 

[Barty]

[ref]ronk[/ref], actually we took the fairly unknown Sorenberg, followed by the Grimselpass, Furkapass, Andermatt and Lukmanierpass. Between them there were a few smaller passes, all in all a 550km daytrip ending at lake Como



Naturally our arrival at the Hotel Belvédère required the gratuitous pass picture 8)

 

[tug]

This photo should be posted immediately into the sept. photo competition mate.

 

[Zedebee]

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Driven it for 500 miles to south Germany. Tomorrow: roadtrip through the alps to Como

Thought you were going to say you’d run out of money to buy petrol

 

[Barty]

[ref]Zedebee[/ref], that may still happen :lol: