What have you done to your car today ???

[PhillipM]

Oops, lad down the road from me did that last week in a Punto - although in his case it buckled all the front edge of the roof as well, was a right mess.

 

[1985michael182]

I'm gutted. Looked brand new from the front. Spent ages on the bonnet aswell, cut all the inside out to lighten it spent ages making it perfect and getting the aero catches to fit perfect

 

[Garya88]

Aww man that’s a shame fell for you pal. Hopefully u can get it back to it’s former glory[emoji108]


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[JamesBryan]

Has it done the roof as well?

 

[1985michael182]

Yea the aero catches creased the roof.
Back to work to fix it again. Front end looked like brand new which makes it so much worst

 

[Brigsy]

Had the pleasure of helping to remove a seized fiesta tdci injector today. Only had an hr and basic tools which did not really get it going. Inlet off tomorrow to get heavy duty on it ?

 

[1985michael182]

Nice ride out in the M140i over the Yorkshire moors to Middlesborough to pic up my new bonnet

 

[200pedro]

Replaced the starter on the 200

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[Pistachio]

The alarm started beeping constantly so I disconnected the battery. Then after much googling I found a thread on here saying to adjust the height of the boot latch. This would make sense because the door open symbol has been appearing on the dash. Hopefully that has sorted it.

Does anyone know if these holes should have plastic things in them like the other one? Also do they serve a purpose?

 

[JamesBryan]

The alarm started beeping constantly so I disconnected the battery. Then after much googling I found a thread on here saying to adjust the height of the boot latch. This would make sense because the door open symbol has been appearing on the dash. Hopefully that has sorted it.

Does anyone know if these holes should have plastic things in them like the other one? Also do they serve a purpose?

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Don't adjust that bit.

It's the metal hook near the bumper that you undo and slide in or out.

 

[Pistachio]

Don't adjust that bit.

It's the metal hook near the bumper that you undo and slide in or out.

Yeah that's what I did. The pictures are just to show the plastic thing I was talking about

 

[JamesBryan]

Yeah that's what I did. The pictures are just to show the plastic thing I was talking about

Ahh right yeah.

Some of mine are missing too, so I'm guessing it's meant to be like that.

 

[Karlos182]

Mine is the same. Just the one plastic bit to the right of the boot catch.


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[1985michael182]

The alarm started beeping constantly so I disconnected the battery. Then after much googling I found a thread on here saying to adjust the height of the boot latch. This would make sense because the door open symbol has been appearing on the dash. Hopefully that has sorted it.

Does anyone know if these holes should have plastic things in them like the other one? Also do they serve a purpose?

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They are water drains to let water out of the tail gate

 

[1985michael182]

Your bonnet has them as does your doors

 

[Pistachio]

Ahh ok cheers

 

[hsustyle]

Cup spoiler fitted
Renault 19 Turbines on

 

[Mbeau]

So.. had a good afternoon.
Fresh painted front bumper and bonnet. Painted all the trims in the bumper.
Polished the headlights n wings.
Fitted a sunstrip ready for first track day.
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Left work looking like this...... didn't lock the bonnet catches .....
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b****cks...........

That is proper rubbish. Gutted for you. The pre bonnet pictures look great. I once had this happen on a RS Turbo I owned. I am sure you will sort it. Still gutting though.

 

[1985michael182]

That is proper rubbish. Gutted for you. The pre bonnet pictures look great. I once had this happen on a RS Turbo I owned. I am sure you will sort it. Still gutting though.

Going into work today to repair the roof and fit the roof scoop before it gets painted. I'll get some pictures later

 

[1985michael182]

So today.....
Removed windscreen.
Removed ariel base and panel bonded a patch in.
Used dent bars to push dents out and a punch and light chisel to remove high spots.
Filled the roof.
Fitted cup roof scoop.
Metal filled the hole for ariel.

 

[1985michael182]

6 hours hot sweaty graft and it's done.

 

[Mbeau]

Excellent progress. You don't hang about. I am assuming you work in a body shop, which is pretty handy!

 

[Trojanhawrs]

Excellent progress. You don't hang about. I am assuming you work in a body shop, which is pretty handy!

A BMW approved one by the looks of it

 

[Oggy997]

New front discs, pads, wear sensors & retaining pins, front drop links.

Tomorrow will be air con condensers & water pump... If I can be arsed to tackle *that* 10mm bolt on the water pump.

 

[John John]

Day spent at Car Limits, hence the picture
Had a great day exploring my limits??

 

[1985michael182]

Yes sir

Excellent progress. You don't hang about. I am assuming you work in a body shop, which is pretty handy!

Yes sir, I'm senior ATA BMW panel technician to put it the posh way. Priming the roof in a minute

 

[1985michael182]

Ready for primer

 

[JamesBryan]

Nice work on the recovery.

 

[1985michael182]

Nice work on the recovery.

Who?

 

[JamesBryan]

Who?

You. Haha

Repair should look good.

 

[1985michael182]

Oh, haha thanks. If I had closed the bloody bonnet pins I wouldn't have to do all this... least I get a new screen out of it

 

[PhillipM]

Happens more often than you think with pins, I bet every race weekend there's a bonnet or two goes up from missing or loose pins. Mind in our sport that usually just means they jump on the bonnet until a pin goes in, kick the window out and put some goggles on.

 

[1985michael182]

Roof n scoop painted.
New aero catches on the bent bonnet, just screen to fit

 

[General Dave]

I decided on Saturday to do my front and rear, discs and pads and uprated evol style dog bone..

3.5 hours later all I got done was the front discs and pads and the dogbone thanks to one of the NS sliders welding itself in the carrier. Luckily it happened at work so one of the techs drilled the slider out and I replaced it with one i removed from a Scenic at a local scrappy, worked very well!! and the brakes are spot on.

The dogbone next, got that changed that in under 5mins and i'm really happy with the difference it's made, not sure why they get the hate to be honest i'm a 36 year old man and I don't think the vibrations or anything aren't that bad.

So if anyone reading this has a pair of front ph2 172 caliper carriers in good condition (figured i'd replace both and fit new sliders) close to Portsmouth, give me a shout ?

 

[Karlos182]

The bonnet on my titanium silver 182 was rusting badly, so I found one on eBay but couldn’t find the right colour. In the end, I had to settle for a white one. I fitted it and although it wasn’t a terrible as I’d imagined, I couldn’t leave it like that. Anyway, it’s been in today to get wrapped in Avery Dennison Carbon Fiber black.

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[1985michael182]

Your headlights look brand new

 

[Karlos182]

Your headlights look brand new

Thanks. They’ve not long been professionally refurbished. He did a cracking job on them to be fair.


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[1985michael182]

What did he do? Flat n polish them or re laquer ?

 

[Karlos182]

What did he do? Flat n polish them or re laquer ?

Not sure to be honest. He did put a UV coating on after to try and keep them fresh for as long as possible. He usually does smart repairs and pdr stuff.


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[1985michael182]

It just machine polished them with compound. See how long it lasts