I thought cars cost several hundred pounds - not rear wash wipe units! actually my several hundred pounds car has no rear wash-wipe at all. is there not something that you can salvage from fmf to take on this role in the new car and keep the spirit alive?
Over the last few months i've found that car DIY is never as straightforward as you think it's going to be - an oil change that should have taken <1hour spiralled into 4 hours when the awkward position of the filter hindered my progress and two days of removing rust from my arch and repainting now looks pretty awful because the halfords paint is a terrible match.
Your new car looks pretty german - wanna be in on a nurburgring trip sometime?
Unfortunately the rear washwipe in FMF seemed to bear the brunt of the collision - and if anything is in worse shape than the one in the new car! I hear your cries over miss-placed oil filters - must be german cars - VW decided that half way up the engine, at the back, under the cooling header tank was the ideal place for a filter. Took a while to deal with that one.
I'd love a trip to the nurburgring - but don't you have an M3? I think I might be slightly out-gunned.
Did you get halfords to colour-match the paint? I had them do that for fmf a couple of years ago, and the results were passable. But then he was white. Not to hard to get that right..
Bixie the BMW isn't quite an M3 - she's a 325i but she does have M3 seats and steering wheel now! I gave halfords the exact colour code for the paint but I think they just don't know how to mix it properly.
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Over the last few months i've found that car DIY is never as straightforward as you think it's going to be - an oil change that should have taken <1hour spiralled into 4 hours when the awkward position of the filter hindered my progress and two days of removing rust from my arch and repainting now looks pretty awful because the halfords paint is a terrible match.
Your new car looks pretty german - wanna be in on a nurburgring trip sometime?
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I'd love a trip to the nurburgring - but don't you have an M3? I think I might be slightly out-gunned.
Did you get halfords to colour-match the paint? I had them do that for fmf a couple of years ago, and the results were passable. But then he was white. Not to hard to get that right..
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I gave halfords the exact colour code for the paint but I think they just don't know how to mix it properly.
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