What have you done to your car today?
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Sacramento, CA
Ed Doe said:Not so much today, but I got an evening slot at Donny last night.
The car performed (almost) faultlessly - until I boiled the brake fluid near the end of the evening - pedal went almost to the floor and took a few pumps to get the car stopped - bit scary when approaching Mclean's at something well north of 100mph!!! Brake fluid change now on the never ending list before the Ring trip in 2 weeks!
Trackday photography isn't done yet so you'll have to make do with my 'before' and 'after' photos!
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Oooh and side note, no issues whatsoever with noise limits with the supersprint X-pipe & Race cans
Love the wheel color! And yes, that does sound very scary. Had the remnants of my pads going more and more metal-metal at Laguna Seca, I noticed that braking performance going into T1 (at ~110 mph) from one lap to the next was diminishing, which was very unnerving. Brake issues in general are scary!
Special Kay
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is this the male equivalent of a tramp stamp? 
Attleborough, Norfolk
Ed Doe said:BMWZ4MC said:Both will be great fun. I’ve still not made it to the ring, but I’d love to drive it one day.
No track days for me for the foreseeable future - work is busy and two kids of one and three and a half years keep me busy at home too.
Hopefully, towards the end of the year I’ll have more time. For now, I’m taking the scenic route home as often as possible
If you do get a 'ring date in the diary let me know - if I can manage to get out there too I certainly will
Yeah my son is 3 1/2 too now, and we've got a second child on the way (not sure if boy or girl yet - due October), so I'm getting the trackdays in this year, as I'm pretty sure I'll be limited to taking the scenic route home too next year! :lol:
Home is in Sydney at the moment, so a ‘ring trip would have to be squeezed into a European holiday, which makes it even less likely I’d be given permission :lol: I still have my RS4 in the UK though, and it would be interesting to drive it on a track. It was phenomenal cross country on broken roads in Devon, and would have left my uncompliant Zed for dead in that environment. I’ll be sure to let you know if I’m heading to any tracks when we’re next back.
Good luck for October, it’s more than twice as hectic when the second one arrives!
ETA good to see you survived Donnington unscathed. That’s happened to me too, also at well over 100mph. I didn’t manage to slow down enough to take the corner, but fortunately there was plenty of run off. It’s certainly wakes you up when the brake pedal offers no resistance!
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Fred Smith said:
Mine is currently in the body shop having a full respray. Bar the the roof.
This is the current state.
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raymond.harper
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Started work on my second 108 rim. On the first one, I laboriously stripped the rim with a paint stripper. With this rim, I had it sand or probably shot-blasted. Unfortunately, the finish left a lot to be desired, more potholes than my local road! Four coats of filler primer and smoothing and now ready to paint.
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Having replaced the rear shocks on the Mrs E89 in the last week or so, and previously correcting the Bonnet, roof and boot lid, I turned my attention to both sides today. Doors, rear wings, front wing panels and side skirts all corrected… happy with the results and clarity;
South Lanarkshire
Haha yeh the photos went a bit weird, but yeh some dent pulling then some wet / dry and polishing. Long day but it’s taken the edge off it looking beaten up.
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Bit hard to work out the order of the pics, have you wet sanded and then polised?
Sorry to hear about the hit and run