What did you do to your other car(s) today?

[T_C_D]

Finally some decent 16" wheels for the S6.

[Mike W.]

Which version is it and how did it do? I've never really pushed either of ours but I feel the weight and it doesn't feel nearly as tossable as the sedan. But as I said, I haven't tried.

It's an autotragic 525i. I put it in sport but still couldn't wring enough Go out of it. That said, it acquitted itself rather admirably in the corners. Big bend was tough with all that weight up high and stock suspension, but the rest was good fun. There was no tossing that whale, for sure. I can't wait to go again. I am going to focus on improving the E28 for the occasional track and autocross day since it's not a daily driver.

Not too bad then, but it didn't rewrite the laws of physics. Sounds about right.

[nik77356]

Which version is it and how did it do? I've never really pushed either of ours but I feel the weight and it doesn't feel nearly as tossable as the sedan. But as I said, I haven't tried.

It's an autotragic 525i. I put it in sport but still couldn't wring enough Go out of it. That said, it acquitted itself rather admirably in the corners. Big bend was tough with all that weight up high and stock suspension, but the rest was good fun. There was no tossing that whale, for sure. I can't wait to go again. I am going to focus on improving the E28 for the occasional track and autocross day since it's not a daily driver.

Not too bad then, but it didn't rewrite the laws of physics. Sounds about right.

I've had my autotragic 525i Sport Wagon on track before and had quite the blast! Anemic, yes, but still plenty of good, laughing fun. I did constantly have my hand out the window pointing people by since I happened to be running in the TT session that event though. Can't wait to put a proper transmission behind it with a B30 swap!

Put a new left front wheel speed sensor on the E39 wagon last night, hoping like hell my issue wasn't the DSC module that needed repair (Even though I knew that was the issue in the back of my mind). Of course it didn't fix the issue. Looks like I'll be pulling out the DSC module soon to see what's up.

[slammin_e28]

E46:

Trans ad diff fluid
Oil change
Rear brakes.....even though they weren't touching the sensor, but the light was on and I'd just done fronts. Come to find out the sensor wire on the front came loose and rubbed through on the wheel. FAK.
Washer pump.

Test drove.

Parked.....annnnnnnd there's a nice puddle forming under the car. Meh. I just changed washer pumpe, no big....oh wait....that's fucking coolant.

Expansion tank cracked on the seam. So pulled back in a replaced. 20 mintes. Done. Happy.

[MicahO]

A great weekend overall, and a busy one on the various cars. Thursday night started with replacing the parking brake equalizer on the Tundra. The old one was rusted into a basically solid mass. I was tired of lubing it once a month and wrestling with it until it would move. We'll see if the new one makes it through a winter before massive corrosion sets in.



Then onto the 330, where I'm still sort of chasing an intermittent set of noises up front. As the car is approaching 200K and is in generally great shape, I don't mind dumping some more time and parts into it, so.... New front calipers to go with the rotors and pads it got last month, put back the UUC swaybar with new bushings, tighten up the shocks, and a new set of Conti DW all around. The car felt great coming into work this morning, and the brakes look very shiny.



All of that work was done before noon on Friday, and we had some good friends visiting for the weekend. So after a walk downtown with the kids to Taco Hombre and Fizzy Lifting, I got out the Studebaker and we rolled around town a bit. Yes, we fit 2 adults and 6 kids into the car. There are no seatbelts to count, so it must be legal! Back at the house - no dogs allowed in that car!



It was a good start to a GREAT Fourth Weekend.

[cddallara]

Threw some clear turn signal on it a couple weeks ago, and shoved it back into bike hauler duty.
Changed out my spidered inner tails for some intact ones last night.

[vinceg101]

Last Friday on way back from working all day on the M535i (aka the "old car") prepping for Portland, the water pump on the E39 (aka the "new car") blew up and threw a bearing.
Had it flat-bedded to the mechanic to sit until yesterday as I had absolutely no time this past weekend to change it out.

Damned thing only had about 51,000 miles on it. We looked at it and couldn't recognize the manufacturer, so that was telling. Luckily it didn't take out anything else when it seized. The radiator has a few K less than the water pump so I''m thinking that comes out next. I needed the car so I didn't have the luxury of telling him replace everything else, but I'm going to start ordering parts this week.

[NZfiver]

New rear tyres (Goodyear) for the wagon.

[wkohler]

Tried to put the door panel back on.

Untitled by Christopher Kohler, on Flickr

[bkbimmer]

Tried to put the door panel back on.

Untitled by Christopher Kohler, on Flickr

You gave a valiant try.

[Mike W.]

Tried to put the door panel back on.

Untitled by Christopher Kohler, on Flickr

You gave a valiant try.

I dunno, it's not on. I'd say he has to try harder.

[tig]

Tried to put the door panel back on.

Untitled by Christopher Kohler, on Flickr

[wkohler]

Part of it is still on my roof.

[86GT635]

Part of it is still on my roof.

You're saving it for later?

[nik77356]

Part of it is still on my roof.

You're saving it for later?

Door panel, it's what's for dinner!

[1st 5er]

Flip it 180°.

[nik77356]

On its roof? Which one?

[davintosh]

I put a new set of NGK spark plugs in the e32 today, and discovered that the 16mm spark plug wrench in that car's toolkit doesn't fit the spark plugs that it uses. And there's no spot in the toolkit for a 21mm spark plug tool.

Weird.

[Nanajoth]

Put a 535i condenser in the M5 today. It fits, but you need to make new brackets for it and it will be in front of the oil cooler.

[davintosh]

Not today, but last Wednesday; tore into the e46 to replace the CCV and vent pipes. Took me all. Frickin. Day. Plus part of Thursday to get it done. First surprise was that the oil return passage on the dipstick tube was hopelessly clogged, which is probably what caused the valve to fail. The oil return tube was full of oily sludgy gunk, as was the inlet on the dipstick tube.



I worked for an hour or so trying to clear it before giving up and calling the BMW stealership to see if they had the cold-climate version of the tube as a replacement. They did; $165.34. Crap. Bit the bullet because it needed to be done and working now. While I was there I also asked for an o-ring to go with it. Didn't look at the receipt until I got home; that bit of rubber added an extra $6.40 to the bill.

I had to quit early to get ready for dinner with friends, so buttoned things up the next morning, and got a Check Engine Light when I fired it up, plus it didn't sound quite right. After pulling a few things back out to check my work, decided it would be better to see what the codes were first. Each of the three codes pointed to a different component that was under the intake; one I forgot to plug in ( ) and the other two were swapped. I'd like to know what BMW genius decided that it was a good idea to put two identical connectors of nearly identical length on the wiring block under the intake manifold. Both were two-wire, both had the alignment key in the center, and both were within the same distance of the wiring block. Yeah, I know I should label these things... I'm just really happy that it didn't result in something getting fried. But I'd still like to have a talk with a certain engineer.

Then tonight, in a vain attempt to get the car "ready" for its new owner, I tried fixing the sunshade for the sunroof. Man, what a hokey piece of crap that thing is. I won't go into all the gory details, suffice it to say I gave up and just threw the flippin' sunshade in the trunk. He can deal with the thing, because I'll be boarding a one-way flight out of the country in about 33 hours, and I'm not terribly inclined to care about much of anything at 3am. I'll probably have to concede to a slightly lower price, but oh flippin' well.

[e28Sean]

Sadly, my other car isn't a BMW, but I felt this was still worthy of posting here. Decided to check the air in the spare on the beater, and discovered air was the least of my worries. 20 year old spare, with lots of dry rot, chunks flaking off it, and threads on the sidewall showing, over inflated to about 48 psi

[geordi]

Cut the lawn around LJ's lawn whimsy.





And did a little preventive maintenance by re-dying the leather interior on the 745i.

[Karl Grau]

Dusted off the e30 and went out to East County to visit Dad.

[oldskool]

Dusted off the e30 and went out to East County to visit Dad.

Well, HEELLLL YEEAAHH!!
(I love that car, and Dad too).

Early this a.m. I fiddled around with the relays on the e12 because of a no fuel situation, and then gave up because it was hotter than two foxes fucking, and I saw a spark. Then a really angry looking spider, well, it may have been a roach, but I didn't stick around to get bit and I got bored and decided to go golfing instead. I then came back to the e12 kinda drunk, so I thought it better to address the whole fuel/electricity with a blood alcohol content less than 50%. A lot got done

[yodman]

Drove the E30 to my storage unit to clean it out of spare parts.

Changed the fuel pump and timed the ignition in my Rabbit Truck, but no fire yet.