The 'look at what I did today' thread

Post by **Greg-SiR** » Sat Dec 12, 2015 4:22 am

vanzep wrote:nice
doesnt matter if you didnt do it yourself - as long as it got done
id heard swapping the steering rack could be a pita

Seems very true,i wouldn't know

All the mechanic kept saying was "you know,we had to take off everything!"
It was a bit of a blinder and i suspected the control arms,was best to get a pro in,i got a discount on the rack too so 2 birds with the one snowball

Post by **indigolemon** » Sat Dec 12, 2015 8:38 pm

Greg-SiR wrote:All the mechanic kept saying was "you know,we had to take off everything!"

Bit parky for those kind of shenanigans

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Sun Dec 20, 2015 11:54 am

Two cars meet in a narrow lane ...
... so what I've been doing today is pricing up some repairs:-

Not visible are the broken track rod and some torn plastics. It's all fixable, at about £150-200 for second-hand parts. This is somewhere between a third and a half of what the car's worth.

I'm not sure I can be bothered. I was going to sell the car, anyway.

Post by **Greg-SiR** » Sun Dec 20, 2015 12:25 pm

indigolemon wrote:
Greg-SiR wrote:All the mechanic kept saying was "you know,we had to take off everything!"
Bit parky for those kind of shenanigans

I know....

I decided to leave at that stage

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Sun Dec 20, 2015 10:30 pm

I'm lost what the civic was all about...

Prelude x2, ATR x1, Teg x1... That was as far as I was aware your honda ownership went?

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 12:52 am

wurlycorner wrote: I'm lost what the civic was all about...
Prelude x2, ATR x1, Teg x1... That was as far as I was aware your honda ownership went?

Oh, it's a coupe I bought a while back as a donor for the Teg, but I was talked out of using its Y7 engine*. I was going to sell it on, but it's actually been super reliable, smooth and cheap to run, so it rapidly staked its claim to being the family hack.

* [I bought another car for its engine instead - so actually had 2 civics in the fleet for a week or so ...]

Post by **Donald** » Tue Dec 22, 2015 8:15 pm

Today I met Ai Weiwei.

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Tue Dec 22, 2015 10:16 pm

As the man himself so eloquently put...

YouTube · Post by **Sailor** » Wed Dec 23, 2015 12:34 am

Due to needing some unplanned dosh for the Civic, I had to pull out of an exhaust purchase off this forum. The temporary repair is going to have to last a bit longer, so we gave it a good hot test today. (The problem was the loss of the oval plate on the top of the downpipe straight section after all.)

A food can shaped with tin snips, Gun Gum and a couple of hose clips seem to have done the job for the time being.

Post by **Donald** » Thu Dec 31, 2015 7:20 pm

@nitin_s1