What have you done to your car today?

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!
 

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Installed a MFSW. Of course, my car wasn't pre-wired :headbang: So I had to add the 2 wires from the clock spring to the LCM.
 

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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 said:
Good work! :thumbsup:
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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 

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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 :roll: )
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. :roll:

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Nice one, who would've known that would've been underneath :thumbsup:

Now you can check your hair in the rear view mirror and nose hairs in the steering wheel without loosing sight of the road :thumbsup:
 
Spokes look good. When I was refurbing my old wheel prior to spraying black, I was surprised at how shiny the chrome bits became when sanding down.

I’ve done nothing on the car today. Went out with the intention of installing the steering wheel wiring for multi-function. Lasted 5 mins before I realised it was too cold and wet - even with a garage :lol:
 
So today I replaced the driver's wing as I had some rust bubbling on the arch and thought it would be easier to replace the whole thing. Three seized bolts made it a much longer job than anticipated but it's done. Never worked on a car before so this is all a new experience - and one I'd never have attempted without all of the support and guidance on this forum.

Next stop....replacing the rear wings and boot lid (God help me!).
 
poortomsacold said:
So today I replaced the driver's wing as I had some rust bubbling on the arch and thought it would be easier to replace the whole thing. Three seized bolts made it a much longer job than anticipated but it's done. Never worked on a car before so this is all a new experience - and one I'd never have attempted without all of the support and guidance on this forum.

Next stop....replacing the rear wings and boot lid (God help me!).
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My only tip would be do one at at time so you can keep the alignments
 
enuff_zed said:
poortomsacold said:
So today I replaced the driver's wing as I had some rust bubbling on the arch and thought it would be easier to replace the whole thing. Three seized bolts made it a much longer job than anticipated but it's done. Never worked on a car before so this is all a new experience - and one I'd never have attempted without all of the support and guidance on this forum.

Next stop....replacing the rear wings and boot lid (God help me!).
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My only tip would be do one at at time so you can keep the alignments
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Thanks Martin. I’d not realised how tricky the alignment could be until today - may need to go back and fine tune the wing alignment of earlier on.
 
inkey$ said:
I’ve done nothing on the car today. Went out with the intention of installing the steering wheel wiring for multi-function. Lasted 5 mins before I realised it was too cold and wet - even with a garage :lol:
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I had a bad car day too. Flappy paddles aren’t working and I can’t work out why. Decided to replace the centre console with my resprayed one instead, but couldn’t even get the driver’s knee rest off. Went for a muddy bike ride instead.
 
Zedebee said:
…decided to replace the centre console with my resprayed one instead, but couldn’t even get the driver’s knee rest off.
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:lol: I also know these car-DIY moments all too well indeed!
 
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