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Mine looks better. 🤣 This arrived today It's called a Zombieverter VCU, designed by Damien Maguire and manufactured by JLC PCB. I thought I may have a few IC's to solder on but it seems to be complete, apart from headers for the Wemos WiFi...

My ac charger is in the old fuel filler hole. It gets used frequently and fits nicely so I'll keep it there. I've already made a bracket for the Chademo socket to bolt it to the inverter. Just needs a drop of paint. The leads for it are very...

I can understand that mate, what he is saying is very relevant to me so I'm interested but his voice is very boring. I believe the VCU kit comes mostly complete but a few chips need soldering on but I'll report back when it arrives. If I'd paid...

I decided to bite the bullet and ordered a Zombieverter kit to replace my VCU. https://www.evbmw.com/index.php/evbmw-webshop/vcu-boards This video is a little out of date but if you can stay awake long enough listening to Damiens voice it should...

Long time lurker, first time poster: Cleaned all the contacts on the numberplate light to make it work again - Bloody thing failed my MOT! Next job, clean all the wheel speed sensors and disks in the hope that I won't have to replace any.

Cheers guys! Thanks for the input, turned out it where indeed the engine mounts that took a hit with all the roads here (unfortunately not on stock). CV joints checked and regreased. So good to continue at least with some vibrations :) Cocktails...

Amazing photo's, thanks for sharing. Have a great trip.

Today’s 15 minute job…. Oil and filter plus airfilter. Total time? Fecking hours. A mouse had created a love nest in the area around the injectors 😡. Noticed vacuum hoses had chafed through in the injector region, replaced them all. Got...

Fitted new Moog front roll bar bushes and HD drop links. Time elapsed? 15 minutes a drop link, 30 minutes cleaning and fitting the bushes. Oh forgot, an HOUR to get ONE of the 10mm bush retainer screws out of the subframe!! Another 5 minute...

WOW! I need to get me one of them! 😁

I hope you've seen this gem!

Probably down 4 or 5mpg.

first fuel consumption figures are in. We are getting about 24mpg driving around London. Driving to PoL and back, most of which was cruising at 65mph or so on the M40 got me 30mpg. I don't know how that compares with a manual 1.8 but it doesn't...

My guess is that puts you roughly mid way between the V6 auto and Td4 auto

Because these ones are cheap and easy. Proper spacers are made using high grade metal, are held on with nuts and have 5 new studs for the wheels but will set the wheels out 10 or 15mm.

On an M12 X 1.5 thread, it needs 15mm of thread engagement to achieve maximum clamping load capacity. You'll find that with spacers, you probably have about 12mm of thread engagement, which isn't really enough.

I had 5mm spacers for the same issue but wasn't happy with them and replaced the rims. With the way tyre fitters and mechanics hammer in the wheel nuts you need every mm of thread to keep you and your family safe. The other issue with spacers is...

In fairness most LR products have the oil slick as standard issue too.

This is so much prettier than my spanner bucket and misc. heap. 🫠

Is it an ejector seat?

Well done mate, I think most of that went over his head but I enjoyed it. ☺️ And not a rainbow in sight! 🤣

I got interviewed. 10:48 in:-

Normally one of them is in the house but it somehow ended up here. :vb-confused2: Today after washing it I jumped in and felt a drip from the interior light! Turns out the roof new aerial I installed a few months back is leaking. I guess the...

The evidence is in plain sight. You need multiple files, because different ones do different jobs, ditto the scissors and other items there. However, unless I'm mistaken, or we have identified your superpower, it is not humanly possible to use...

Again, this is the stuff of dreams for me. The boot of my FL1 is my tool bay *edit* oh and my long suffering parent's garage

K Series are great engines but are known to eat head-gaskets. Anything over 50k miles (80k km) and you are on borrowed time but many will fail before that. How many kilometres are on the car now? If the head-gasket was replaced at 60k, what...

I'm pretty good at loosing everything so the first thing I did after building my garage was screw this board to the wall and hang my spanners in full view. I still loose them from time to time but usually not for long.

So I just got the IRD oil checked. Drain plug had some sludge on it, but no pieces or slivers. After refilling I drove a few km to feel it. It felt smoother and I had less judder in the acceleration. I was driving without the sump guard and I...

Your guide to reconditioning actually gave me hope that I could DIY it. I'm still getting in touch with Sue, as I suspect the IRD is also on the way out. Rebuilding the IRD will be too much of a challenge, yet. I'm planning on checking the IRDs...