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Author Topic: So what have you done to your car today?  (Read 3044459 times)

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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #15075 on: 16 September 2017, 20:50:32 »
Quote from: VXL V6 on 16 September 2017, 20:47:30
Went to Huntingdon in one of them  :y
 

I know, does it stop now. :y nice new wheels n tyres, also could do with some waxoil underneath... :)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #15076 on: 16 September 2017, 20:52:31 »
Rewired a Skoda Octavia drivers door for next door...

Apparently Vagcom cannot solder ::)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #15077 on: 16 September 2017, 20:53:53 »
Quote from: biggriffin on 16 September 2017, 20:50:32
Quote from: VXL V6 on 16 September 2017, 20:47:30
Went to Huntingdon in one of them  :y
 

I know, does it stop now. :y nice new wheels n tyres, also could do with some waxoil underneath... :)

It'll be going for a couple of days up to Rustbuster's for the full treatment.  :y
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« Reply #15078 on: 16 September 2017, 20:56:57 »
Quote from: Doctor Gollum on 16 September 2017, 20:52:31
Rewired a Skoda Octavia drivers door for next door...

Apparently Vagcom cannot solder ::)

So VAG door looms haven't got any better then!
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #15079 on: 16 September 2017, 21:03:16 »
Quote from: VXL V6 on 16 September 2017, 20:56:57
Quote from: Doctor Gollum on 16 September 2017, 20:52:31
Rewired a Skoda Octavia drivers door for next door...

Apparently Vagcom cannot solder ::)

So VAG door looms haven't got any better then!
Apparently not ;D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #15080 on: 17 September 2017, 16:34:11 »
Replaced the rear donut bushes with polys  :y :y

While the back end was in pieces ......
Attacked the rear chassis / wheel arches with a wire wheel on the drill to get any rust off.
Gave everything a good dose of Krust then blathered everything in black chassis paint  :y
Evened up the handbrake via those little hidden wheels which I can never remember which way to turn  :-[
Gave all the brake pipes a good rub down then sprayed even more white grease on them  ;)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #15081 on: 24 September 2017, 19:44:16 »
Replaced passenger door latch/locking motor in the Jag. Took pics this time and did a guide for one of the Jag forums...  ...not that they have a section for guides, probably because all Jags come with a little man in the glovebox that "just sorts everything out".

Clearly, my man is missing :D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #15082 on: 24 September 2017, 19:46:27 »
Quote from: TheBoy on 24 September 2017, 19:44:16
Replaced passenger door latch/locking motor in the Jag. Took pics this time and did a guide for one of the Jag forums...  ...not that they have a section for guides, probably because all Jags come with a little man in the glovebox that "just sorts everything out".

Clearly, my man is missing :D

Or he has quit, in protest at your driving  :P  ;D

Send me a link to that guide, might need it one day!
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #15083 on: 24 September 2017, 19:50:20 »
Quote from: tunnie on 24 September 2017, 19:46:27
Quote from: TheBoy on 24 September 2017, 19:44:16
Replaced passenger door latch/locking motor in the Jag. Took pics this time and did a guide for one of the Jag forums...  ...not that they have a section for guides, probably because all Jags come with a little man in the glovebox that "just sorts everything out".

Clearly, my man is missing :D

Or he has quit, in protest at your driving  :P  ;D

Send me a link to that guide, might need it one day!
On the big more UK focused Jag site ;)

Can't be arsed with the more Yankee orientated ones (and struggle with the UK one a lot as well), as standard answer is "take it to dealer".


My experience with Jag dealers is approximately the same as with Vauxhall dealer service departments. IE, shit. Worse than shit.  Clearly this week, whilst it was in there, one of there saleman went out for an extended lunchbreak in it. self-abusers.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #15084 on: 24 September 2017, 19:52:17 »
I'll probably be looking at XF's in the near future, so worth knowing  :)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #15085 on: 25 September 2017, 17:10:37 »
Quote from: tunnie on 24 September 2017, 19:52:17
I'll probably be looking at XF's in the near future, so worth knowing  :)
But you wouldn't be so retarded as to take it to a dealer anyway ;)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #15086 on: 25 September 2017, 18:39:00 »
Quote from: TheBoy on 25 September 2017, 17:10:37
Quote from: tunnie on 24 September 2017, 19:52:17
I'll probably be looking at XF's in the near future, so worth knowing  :)
But you wouldn't be so retarded as to take it to a dealer anyway ;)
Well......it appears you did  ;D ;D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #15087 on: 25 September 2017, 18:40:33 »
Quote from: TD on 25 September 2017, 18:39:00
Quote from: TheBoy on 25 September 2017, 17:10:37
Quote from: tunnie on 24 September 2017, 19:52:17
I'll probably be looking at XF's in the near future, so worth knowing  :)
But you wouldn't be so retarded as to take it to a dealer anyway ;)
Well......it appears you did  ;D ;D
Against my better judgement. But it was a recall that only a dealer can officially do :(
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #15088 on: 26 September 2017, 06:19:10 »
Replaced headlight level adjustment blocks. Both were broken from body, ball joints were intact. Maybe somebody tightened them too much or something.. Easy job, took maybe 1 hour (never done this before).

Could not contact the guy who advertised aluminium blocks here, so I got these instead.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #15089 on: 26 September 2017, 15:43:42 »
Make sure you run a tap into the thread to clean up swarf from machining before fitting,as set I used the thread got stripped on first assembly and required dismantling again .

Also worth running a flat file over all edges as unlike the aluminium ones they are not too smooth from the moulding process. :y
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