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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #3150 on: 24 August 2012, 18:55:57 »
Yet another oil change ::) had to resort to using 5w30 as I forgot to aquire some more semi synth when I picked up the filter tother day :'( expecting the lifters to be a touch noisy with the thinner oil...

Can't grumble though, 20 litres of 5w30, 5 litres of coolant, 12 plugs, 3pollen filters and 6 oil filters for the 3 work Vectras and the oil filter for the Omega were a whole £70...
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #3151 on: 24 August 2012, 20:58:45 »
Chucked TBE in for an MOT
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #3152 on: 24 August 2012, 22:31:58 »
Quote from: taxi al on 24 August 2012, 18:55:57
expecting the lifters to be a touch noisy with the thinner oil...

Mine's quieter on the decent stuff. Mind you, it's only been to the moon, not past it, to Mars and back again. ;)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #3153 on: 24 August 2012, 22:46:00 »
so, today I've...

sold a Peugeot 206

fixed the electric seats in a Volvo c70

put a cylinder head back on a 1934 Wolseley

and taken the Holden out for a good spanking
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #3154 on: 24 August 2012, 23:22:23 »
(Yesterday, in fact) Finally fitted the set of Yokohama AD08s that Aaron, I believe, suggested I might like to try on the Westfield, many moons ago.

Before the release agent had been scrubbed off I figured out that it will now pull all the way through 1st gear at full throttle whereas before it would sit still with a rapidly worsening smell of burning rubber. ;D

Thought I'd try the braking performance, and realised it was pretty respectable, after fetching my eyes from the dashboard and reinserting them in their sockets. :o

Collected a tool in a 350z doing an "oh, look, a sportscar, I'll sit on his @rse" move. Came to a slip road with a 270 degree spiral and wondered if I could now take it without lifting... yep. :y 350z now so far behind I think he stopped for an undergarment swap. :D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #3155 on: 25 August 2012, 09:41:29 »
And today, Mr Wood, replacing the tyres again due to having too much fun? ;D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #3156 on: 25 August 2012, 09:47:18 »
Two new rear tyres, then purchased a replacement miggy   ::)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #3157 on: 25 August 2012, 10:24:30 »
Quote from: TheBoy on 25 August 2012, 09:41:29
And today, Mr Wood, replacing the tyres again due to having too much fun? ;D

Nope. Wondering about checking their performance in the wet. ::)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #3158 on: 25 August 2012, 10:47:14 »
Quote from: Kevin Wood on 25 August 2012, 10:24:30
Quote from: TheBoy on 25 August 2012, 09:41:29
And today, Mr Wood, replacing the tyres again due to having too much fun? ;D

Nope. Wondering about checking their performance in the wet. ::)
What about on ice...  ...the Westfield has been on the road for a long time this time ::)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #3159 on: 25 August 2012, 11:11:05 »
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #3160 on: 25 August 2012, 13:20:21 »
Gave the Westfield a bit of a fettling ready for a trip to Jockular land.

Lying underneath, looking at the gearbox.. "I suppose I should check the oil".

Unscrewed level plug.. splat! Straight into my Barnet.

Gearbox oil should be renamed "Involuntary shampoo".. "With added extract of incontinent feline". >:(

Guess I'm having a shower next. ::)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #3161 on: 25 August 2012, 14:28:04 »
Quote from: Kevin Wood on 25 August 2012, 13:20:21
Gave the Westfield a bit of a fettling ready for a trip to Jockular land.

Lying underneath, looking at the gearbox.. "I suppose I should check the oil".

Unscrewed level plug.. splat! Straight into my Barnet.

Gearbox oil should be renamed "Involuntary shampoo".. "With added extract of incontinent feline". >:(

Guess I'm having a shower next. ::)
Reminds me, I should really check/change the ATF in TBE.  I'll wait until that nice Mr Wood is about, he enjoys a good hairwash in stinky oils ;D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #3162 on: 25 August 2012, 14:31:00 »
Quote from: TheBoy on 25 August 2012, 14:28:04
Quote from: Kevin Wood on 25 August 2012, 13:20:21
Gave the Westfield a bit of a fettling ready for a trip to Jockular land.

Lying underneath, looking at the gearbox.. "I suppose I should check the oil".

Unscrewed level plug.. splat! Straight into my Barnet.

Gearbox oil should be renamed "Involuntary shampoo".. "With added extract of incontinent feline". >:(

Guess I'm having a shower next. ::)
Reminds me, I should really check/change the ATF in TBE.  I'll wait until that nice Mr Wood is about, he enjoys a good hairwash in stinky oils ;D

If you are about that weekend I suggested, could prob do that for you  :)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #3163 on: 25 August 2012, 18:00:09 »
Swapped mig for an Insignia CDTI SRI as it's gone for insurance repair. Seat's uncomfortable, turbo lags & a lesser spec'd model but otherwise ok.

Although having put £85 of diesel in it, told by computer it has 645m of range, and having driven it to chelmsford, stafford, surrey, york, surrey & home discovered it was telling the truth, I wonder why in hell I'm driving a 3.2 v6 in the first place!

Are there any other diesel migs other than the 2.2?
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #3164 on: 25 August 2012, 18:14:56 »
Quote from: Lampynoiseboy on 25 August 2012, 18:00:09
Swapped mig for an Insignia CDTI SRI as it's gone for insurance repair. Seat's uncomfortable, turbo lags & a lesser spec'd model but otherwise ok.

Although having put £85 of diesel in it, told by computer it has 645m of range, and having driven it to chelmsford, stafford, surrey, york, surrey & home discovered it was telling the truth, I wonder why in hell I'm driving a 3.2 v6 in the first place!

Are there any other diesel migs other than the 2.2?
Only other would be the bmw engined 2.5TD Omega that i know of  :y
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