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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #3870 on: 13 December 2012, 13:26:35 »
Quote from: TheBoy on 12 December 2012, 18:48:49
Pick it up on your way home Fri morning :y

Cheers, might be more like early afternoon though  :)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #3871 on: 13 December 2012, 13:44:58 »
Quote from: henryd on 12 December 2012, 22:46:14
Polished the Signum this evening,came up a treat too :y :y

Is that what you call yours?  Personally I get the missus to polish mine.  But, each to their own...... ;D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #3872 on: 13 December 2012, 14:10:05 »
Quote from: Guffer on 13 December 2012, 13:44:58
Quote from: henryd on 12 December 2012, 22:46:14
Polished the Signum this evening,came up a treat too :y :y

Is that what you call yours?  Personally I get the missus to polish mine.  But, each to their own...... ;D

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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #3873 on: 13 December 2012, 18:50:24 »
Got in it and tried to start it, it wouldn't go so I used the other one i've just changed the glow plugs on. I've now ordered a second set of glow plugs :-[
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #3874 on: 14 December 2012, 16:15:00 »
I drove mine and filled up with diesel ready for the ABS Mimms meal tomorrow. cant wait for the drive. :y
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #3875 on: 14 December 2012, 23:00:50 »
Noted the petrol price had gone down , normally drop a tenner's worth in so treated the ole girl to £10.50  :-*
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #3876 on: 15 December 2012, 12:07:41 »
Run a bit of wiring ready for an up coming project :-X
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #3877 on: 15 December 2012, 16:51:50 »
Starter motor change is done !  :y I'm feeling proud as my abilities is absolutely not like a mechanic's...Many thx for the help I found on the forum !  :y
« Last Edit: 15 December 2012, 16:57:39 by Johnny English »
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #3878 on: 15 December 2012, 16:53:56 »
Cam cover gaskets - and new plug leads whilst I was in there!  ;)

If you're bored.... http://www.malcp.com/20121215OCG/index.html

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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #3879 on: 15 December 2012, 18:35:17 »
winter tyres and geometry for miggy + new custom hand made shocks for clit..
 
result : lighter wallet and frozen a*rs* ;D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #3880 on: 15 December 2012, 19:12:21 »
Oil & filter change, and topped up the ATF, the hardest part of that is jacking up on stands and getting it level. :y
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #3881 on: 15 December 2012, 21:11:27 »
Washed three weeks of motorway grime off the DTi.

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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #3882 on: 15 December 2012, 21:43:17 »
done few bits on mate miggy basically sorting what a so called mechanic had done wrong like cam timing replacing broken electrical connector plugs etc which got it running again :y :y
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #3883 on: 15 December 2012, 23:19:40 »
I almost forgot, I also swapped my damaged :-[ front bumper for a good one i got from the Red Baron, looks nice too. :y
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #3884 on: 16 December 2012, 18:21:56 »
Dowty washers and hollow bolts changed.

No heat from the blowers now so looks like there's an air lock somewhere.
Fitted replacement wheel after a motorway blowout on way back from Alb's yesterday.
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