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Offline Scarecrow

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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #5440 on: April 17, 2016, 06:26:08 pm »
Gorgeous weather in Ottawa this weekend so I:
  • took the snow tires off the Miata and put on the summer rubber, and
  • fired up the Cobra after a looooong winter hibernation, and took it for a four-hour rip!!  It ran great!!
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #5441 on: April 17, 2016, 06:38:24 pm »
Oil & filter change and partial coolant drain/refill (4L) for both cars.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #5442 on: April 17, 2016, 07:43:02 pm »
Spent most of the beautiful weekend in the garage/driveway....time well spent I guess  ???

Saturday I swapped the wheels on the 96 Bird...That involved repairing some failed factory undercoating and cleaning/waxing the old winter rims.

Saturday night we attended a function downtown and decided to take the 85 T/A. Car run great, but as we pulled into the driveway at about 1am Sunday morning Mrs.Firm started yelling about seeing some smoke. I parked and got out, opened the hood to a huge cloud of steam  :-[ I grabbed a flashlight and found a split heater hose that dumped coolant all over, including on the exhaust manifold (hence the smoke show). Dumped coolant all over my driveway too.

I had noticed the heater hoses looking a little sketchy a couple weeks ago, and I even bought some hose to replace them, but never got around to it. Soooo Sunday morning I got up early and replaced the buggers. Then I did the wheel swap on that car too, including clean the winters and wrestling them up into the storage loft.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #5443 on: April 17, 2016, 07:56:15 pm »
^ At least you made it home without getting stranded.

I removed the wheels from the s2000 and gave them a good cleaning inside and out, then a coat of sealant followed by wax. 
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #5444 on: April 17, 2016, 08:11:56 pm »
Quote from: KDS2K on April 17, 2016, 07:56:15 pm
^ At least you made it home without getting stranded.

I removed the wheels from the s2000 and gave them a good cleaning inside and out, then a coat of sealant followed by wax.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Would've been much worse if ti happened a few minutes earlier while we were boogieing along the QEW.....Worse yet I was wearing a brand new suit.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #5445 on: April 17, 2016, 09:11:37 pm »
Washed, clayed and waxed the FGC!

The claybar didn't remove all the contaminants though...there are still orange specs everywhere  :-\ I think I need some type of solvent - bug and tar remover didn't work either.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #5446 on: April 17, 2016, 09:52:45 pm »
Quote from: 1FGC on April 17, 2016, 09:11:37 pm
Washed, clayed and waxed the FGC!

The claybar didn't remove all the contaminants though...there are still orange specs everywhere  :-\ I think I need some type of solvent - bug and tar remover didn't work either.

Sounds like iron particles. CarPro IronX is a good one, although it smells strongly of sulfur. There are a couple of others too (Optimum FerreX etc.). Spray on, it reacts with the iron, IronX turns purple, rinse off.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #5447 on: April 17, 2016, 10:20:43 pm »
Quote from: craigq on April 17, 2016, 09:52:45 pm
Quote from: 1FGC on April 17, 2016, 09:11:37 pm
Washed, clayed and waxed the FGC!

The claybar didn't remove all the contaminants though...there are still orange specs everywhere  :-\ I think I need some type of solvent - bug and tar remover didn't work either.

Sounds like iron particles. CarPro IronX is a good one, although it smells strongly of sulfur. There are a couple of others too (Optimum FerreX etc.). Spray on, it reacts with the iron, IronX turns purple, rinse off.

Just pm'ed a local member and supplier!  :)
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #5448 on: April 18, 2016, 02:24:23 am »
Drove it in a semi enclosed empty parking lot..

Damn my car sounds furious..
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #5449 on: April 18, 2016, 06:17:09 am »
Took it for a pretty long ride... Passed almost 100 miles :)
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #5450 on: April 18, 2016, 10:47:37 am »
Summer tires are back on. Again. Gave it a wash while I was at it.

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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #5451 on: April 18, 2016, 11:57:21 am »
Quote from: aquadorhj on April 18, 2016, 02:24:23 am
Drove it in a semi enclosed empty parking lot..

Damn my car sounds furious..

But, is it fast?  ;)
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #5452 on: April 18, 2016, 12:19:41 pm »
Summer tires are back on again. Yeah!
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #5453 on: April 18, 2016, 01:45:32 pm »
Quote from: quadzilla on April 18, 2016, 12:19:41 pm
Summer tires are back on again. Yeah!
Time to find that favourite off-ramp or corner....... :drive:
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #5454 on: April 18, 2016, 01:47:21 pm »
Got the Miata out last week.  Sure felt good to drive it again.  3 degrees on Friday morning was a little brisk with the to down, but what the hell!  Gotta love it when the first convertible of the year I see out is my own!  :drive:

Got the garage back into summer mode, put all the winter stuff away on Saturday.  Changed the oil in the Miata.  Sunday was summer tire changeover day for the CX9 and the 3.  Damn those 18" CX9 wheel get heavy after a while!  While I had each wheel off, I stuck a garden hose up inside each wheel well and gave everything a good rinse off of winter crap.  Had to give the driveway a good hosing down when I was done.
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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #5455 on: April 18, 2016, 05:10:05 pm »
Swapped the tires on the FozXT for the wife while she washed out the car mats.
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The LS430 is back.
« Reply #5456 on: April 18, 2016, 05:37:03 pm »
I got my LS back.  Total cost was $3100.  Turns out the collision took out the front wheel bearing so that needed fixing.  The car is very quiet and I can juuuuust hear another wheel bearing on it's way out.  So I'll be doing that next.  Apart from that, car is excellent and looks great!

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Re: What did you do to your car today?
« Reply #5457 on: April 18, 2016, 06:02:56 pm »
Good news  that you have it back and it looks great! No more Pathfinder - Yay!
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Re: The LS430 is back.
« Reply #5458 on: April 18, 2016, 06:15:58 pm »
Quote from: rrocket on April 18, 2016, 05:37:03 pm
I got my LS back.  Total cost was $3100.  Turns out the collision took out the front wheel bearing so that needed fixing.  The car is very quiet and I can juuuuust hear another wheel bearing on it's way out.  So I'll be doing that next.  Apart from that, car is excellent and looks great!

Looks good! I didn't realize you were in an accident, glad you're ok.
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Re: The LS430 is back.
« Reply #5459 on: April 18, 2016, 06:19:04 pm »
Quote from: DKaz on April 18, 2016, 06:15:58 pm
Quote from: rrocket on April 18, 2016, 05:37:03 pm
I got my LS back.  Total cost was $3100.  Turns out the collision took out the front wheel bearing so that needed fixing.  The car is very quiet and I can juuuuust hear another wheel bearing on it's way out.  So I'll be doing that next.  Apart from that, car is excellent and looks great!

Looks good! I didn't realize you were in an accident, glad you're ok.

Nah!  I just hit a trophy sized raccoon!!  Broke my bumper and took out the wheel bearing.
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