What have you done to your car today?

New wheels day 😁

Popped down to Performance wheels and tyres nr Wimborne as I was fed up with scouring ebay and fbm for some wheels.

Found these Breyton magics in 18x8.5 et38 square set up, they're going to order me in some centre caps. Kept my staggered tyres for now.

In case anyone was wondering you can fit 3 wheels without tyres in the boot and 1 in the footwell.
 

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Last couple of days, but solved three different banging/clattering noises that have appeared recently.

Heatshield over the exhaust has corroded around three of the fixings, repaired one so far but it was enough to stop any noise from it.

Metal undertray (heat shield?!) under the rear diff bracket has corroded around two of its fixings, both repaired. My stock of VAG heatshield repair washers is now running dangerously low.

Then discovered two of the three fixings on the passenger brake duct/shield have corroded through as well, and that appears to be the final (but very worrying) noise fixed. Eventually got the brake disc off/out the way after heating up the grub screw to free to, and repaired with some heat shield alloy cut oversize and a bigger washer on both bolts.
 
Changed the transmission oil after roughly 240.000km, and happy to report it came out clean as a whistle. Shifts better too after the change.
Downside is I discovered my center support driveshaft bearing is close to being shot, and urgently needs replacing. Will do the guibo disc while I'm at it somewhere next week.
Another issue I found is a cracked/torn front strut top mount. Need to find out how to replace both the front ones as well.
 
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