what have you done to your car today ?

[Nam-uk]

Not so much the car but as I do work I really felt the need for a workbench. But I'm cheap and so took some pallets...

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and made this...

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It's a tad high at just over a metre from floor to top of the work surface, but lots of room to work at 1700x800 and stable enough (even with some shoddy cutting).

pallets are really useful and good wood you never see a rotten pallet , I've used them too repair my fence panels as its always the cross braces and tops that rot and break up even untreated they can last and its better ruff wood than B&Q

 

[iammooks]

Going to take the bumper off tomorrow to do the spray but I'm pretty sure I'm going to snap some of the clips.

Does anyone know the part number for these or know a way of getting them out so they can be reused?

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[g60stu]

Going to take the bumper off tomorrow to do the spray but I'm pretty sure I'm going to snap some of the clips.

Does anyone know the part number for these or know a way of getting them out so they can be reused?

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They can be reused but they’ll be very brittle and hard. I bought a load of new ones. I’ll dig out the place I got them from and let you know.

 

[Thai-wronghorse]

I use a forked trim tool to remove them, they're in 2 pieces so always lift the upper one first then the lower one will pop out easily.

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[Thai-wronghorse]

Coincidentally I've literally just sorted a few for someone else who broke theirs

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[g60stu]

they’re dirt cheap from here:

I use a plastic trim tool:

I recommend replacing them. The new ones will be so easy to remove. You know you’ll be removing them at some time in the near future.

 

[Thai-wronghorse]

Not my from my Leon but decided to strip down some spare Recaro LCR seats...err I think the bolsters may have gone.

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[g60stu]

Should have replaced these parts when they were still available!

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I bought some rears recently. https://www.deutsche-parts.co.uk/re...256mm-rear-brake-discs-all-genuine-parts.html

 

[Thai-wronghorse]

Blimey the price of those has gone up, im pretty sure mine were about half that much a few years ago.

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[Scotty_b]

I bought some rears recently. https://www.deutsche-parts.co.uk/re...256mm-rear-brake-discs-all-genuine-parts.html

Wow £90! Thanks for the link, I did find some (using the original part numbers) for about £30 each from Germany.


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[Nam-uk]

sod that 5" grinder with a mop pad also a drill with wire brush, high temp antirust spray paint will sort out old ones

 

[Nam-uk]

Not my from my Leon but decided to strip down some spare Recaro LCR seats...err I think the bolsters may have gone.

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bit of expanding foam be good as new lol

 

[BadBoy03]

Hope you all have a great holiday weekend with your cars. Go and show those other road users what a decent car looks like

 

[Alexis27]

Had the rear bumper repainted. Previous owner had a few bumps going by the issues discovered under the paint, but the guy I used did a cracking job.
Plus a new plate to finish it off.

 

[H Rafiq]

Blacked out the Seat badges front, rear and steering wheel, and added red Seat side fender badges (Golf R style).

 

[iammooks]

Thanks everyone for the heads up on the clips. They were pretty much all toast before I started taking them off, so there'll be an order going in after all the festivities.

Getting the bumper off is a pain - don't forget the fog lamps and the sensors embedded in the bumper if you ever do it yourself...


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[Rich.T]

Did you have to jack the car up at all?

 

[iammooks]

Did you have to jack the car up at all?

I put it on axle stands so all I had to do to undo the screws was turn the wheels. I'll leave it like that until I put the bumper back on. If I have time I'll finish the paint on the bonnet too but I'm in less of a hurry to do that at the moment.

Rain starts on Saturday, so fingers crossed I'll have all the paint done by the end of tomorrow. I can't see that being a problem though.


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[Yellow fr]

Fitting new front pads and fitted the replacement sump may do a couple off other jobs too tomorrow

 

[Thai-wronghorse]

Something weird happened today...



I DID SOME WORK ON MY OWN CAR!!!!

Don't get too excited though as it wasn't much but it involved pulling out some bits from my personal stash that have been tucked away for at least 2 years I reckon.

First off was to fiddle with the mk3 Leon Cupra multifunction steering wheel, this came off a nice low mileage car so is in great condition and that's accompanied by a brand new airbag.

I recently had someone make the conversion loom for the CAN-BUS adapter module as you can see in the photos, I haven't wired this in yet though.

Slight hitch with the airbag install though...the flipping retaining springs are missing from the wheel so I need to poach them from somewhere so it clicks into place but on the whole very happy with the way it looks and feels.

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