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Offline Trainman

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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #4180 on: May 14, 2015, 10:56:14 pm »
175,000 km service.  LOF, transmission and both diffs.  Also got them to re-instal one of the rear mudflaps I managed to rip off on the weekend  :-[
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #4181 on: May 14, 2015, 11:39:09 pm »
Quote from: Trainman on May 14, 2015, 10:56:14 pm
175,000 km service.  LOF, transmission and both diffs.  Also got them to re-instal one of the rear mudflaps I managed to rip off on the weekend  :-[

The Subaru? Interesting - I thought only trucks had grease fittings these days.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #4182 on: May 15, 2015, 03:21:07 pm »
Quote from: HeliDriver on May 14, 2015, 11:39:09 pm
Quote from: Trainman on May 14, 2015, 10:56:14 pm
175,000 km service.  LOF, transmission and both diffs.  Also got them to re-instal one of the rear mudflaps I managed to rip off on the weekend  :-[

The Subaru? Interesting - I thought only trucks had grease fittings these days.

Just me and my old ways; have always called the regular service a LOF, even if all it really gets is the O and F part.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #4183 on: May 16, 2015, 04:52:54 pm »
Drove it for the first time in 8 days. Traveling for work sucks  :P and it was the S2000  :)
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #4184 on: May 16, 2015, 09:22:50 pm »
Quote from: Snowman on May 16, 2015, 04:52:54 pm
Drove it for the first time in 8 days. Traveling for work sucks  :P and it was the S2000  :)

So the Audi, 2 weeks?  ;D
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #4185 on: May 16, 2015, 10:09:23 pm »
Did the heater core in the T/A and performed a thorough flush on the complete system. Total time 4hrs. Book time on this job is 8, but my skinny arms allowed me to get the core in and out without dropping the dash. Lots of cussing though. Glad I flushed the system cuz it was nasty.
Old heater core had been leaking a long time too, but not enough to be noticed, when I took it out one corner of it was all corroded.

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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #4186 on: May 17, 2015, 05:58:28 am »
Quote from: Snowman on May 16, 2015, 04:52:54 pm
Drove it for the first time in 8 days. Traveling for work sucks  :P and it was the S2000  :)
Agree but money doesn't suck when you are a young middle aged guy who likes his toys...   ;)
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #4187 on: May 17, 2015, 12:05:48 pm »
It was oil change time for the GLI.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #4188 on: May 17, 2015, 05:47:13 pm »
Washed the Mazda again Friday.....I have learned my lesson. No more dark colours, lest the pollen and morning dew make the car dirty every 24h.  :surrend:.

Did a nice hike up to Black Balsam Knob (1900m) on foot, through the fog and drizzle. On the way down, I was reminded why I require rear foglights on my vehicles.




Then it all clearned out 2km later. I semi-hustled the Mazda down NC 215 with verve and gusto. Even the undercooked suspension and brakes couldn't stop me from enjoying the joy of driving  :drive:......sort of  . I guess as a driver, you learn to adapt to the equipment you have. Mazda nosedives and rolls heavily when asked to corner faster than 80km/h.  (Recorded it as well)

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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #4189 on: May 17, 2015, 05:56:29 pm »
Open house and car show at Wicked Garage.

The weather today was simply perrrrrrrrrrrrrrfect.

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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #4190 on: May 17, 2015, 06:03:05 pm »
^ There's not one thing I don't like about the looks of that!   :drool:  One of the best looking cars ever made IMO!  :thumbup: :thumbup:
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What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #4191 on: May 17, 2015, 06:57:05 pm »
Trying to prep the race car.   Moved the pedals because I'm short.

Well then the car won't start because I have messed up idle.   Adjusting the idle was fun....
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #4192 on: May 18, 2015, 12:02:04 am »
^ I bet.

I swapped the old dirty ripped original seats in the Trans Am out for a spare set of 4th gen grey cloth seats I had. Scrubbed all the carpet in the process. Car looks, smells and feels a lot more comfortable now.



Yes, I gotta do something about the seat belts...tomorrow.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #4193 on: May 18, 2015, 08:07:58 am »
What's with the padding on the lower front part of the passenger door?  Is that a knee rest and is it factory?  I've been in several TAs over the years and don't remember that.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #4194 on: May 18, 2015, 08:15:17 am »
Quote from: KarlsDarwin on May 18, 2015, 08:07:58 am
What's with the padding on the lower front part of the passenger door?  Is that a knee rest and is it factory?  I've been in several TAs over the years and don't remember that.
I think it is just a storage bag
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #4195 on: May 18, 2015, 08:39:29 am »
Yeah, it's a storage pouch type thing....kinda useful, I usually keep my wallet in there when I drive. No cup holders in this car is annoying though.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #4196 on: May 18, 2015, 04:46:27 pm »
Well for the first time, I have finally washed the Mazda6 (myself)!   It only took 6 months for everything to fall into place: time, weather, and motivation.  Started at 9am, so I could wash the exterior in the shade.  That was the easy part.  Next came the interior, must have spent almost an hour around the driver area (salt stains around the floor).  Then the joy of removing the rear baby seats, vacuuming and wiping, and then reinstalling them....
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #4197 on: May 18, 2015, 07:05:45 pm »
I bid my last Audi farewell, just loaded a 90q20v onto a trailer.  :'( ;D  Feeling mixed
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #4198 on: May 18, 2015, 07:11:00 pm »
Quote from: blur911 on May 18, 2015, 07:05:45 pm
I bid my last Audi farewell, just loaded a 90q20v onto a trailer.  :'( ;D  Feeling mixed

So now you're an honarary member of the Audigone Society?  :P
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #4199 on: May 20, 2015, 10:15:52 am »
Monday was oil and filter, and spark plugs on the Miata and the Forester.  I've forgotten how awkward it is to get at the oil filter on the Miata...
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