What did you and your MK2 do today?

[bigbadjay]

Love old bmws. Big villain cars

 

[kazand]

Kerbed my bloody wheel :'(

Must be catching

 

[Tfsi_Mike]

Must be catching

Feel your pain

 

[jc_boc]

Oh Lord me too. Front n/s wheeel kerbed on those stupid effing calming island jobbies they have.

 

[RobFR]

You want to see the state of mine. Found a local company last night that are quoting £65 to strip repair and powder coat. May be contacting them in the new year.

 

[kazand]

Feel your pain

Cheers mate. swerved to avoid a Virgin van who decided he wanted ALL of the road by our house and misjudged how close I was to kerb-which slopes outwards at that point for some strange reason-old type square faced kerbs if you know what I mean. gutted. the car wasn't the only thing that was blue at that point!

 

[Pedestrian]

Hey,

I caught the kerb (seems like a current trend) the other day... made a loud grinding sound and scuffed them up a bit - no excuse I was being lazy.

However, I have a horrible feeling lately that the steering is really light... For example I'm going over a bump in the road and it feels as if I have to hold the wheel a lot more. Or if I put my foot down, its like the steering wants to go off to one side. Obviously in this weather its more slippy, but doesn't feel right.

Not sure if i'm being paranoid and thinking about it too much, but could that happen after clipping the kurb?

N.B. Front left alloy/wheel.

 

[Masterkm]

I think most of us have had a kerbing problem recently

 

[Tfsi_Mike]

Hey,

I caught the kerb (seems like a current trend) the other day... made a loud grinding sound and scuffed them up a bit - no excuse I was being lazy.

However, I have a horrible feeling lately that the steering is really light... For example I'm going over a bump in the road and it feels as if I have to hold the wheel a lot more. Or if I put my foot down, its like the steering wants to go off to one side. Obviously in this weather its more slippy, but doesn't feel right.

Not sure if i'm being paranoid and thinking about it too much, but could that happen after clipping the kurb?

N.B. Front left alloy/wheel.

Maybe knocked the tracking out. Does the car drive straight and true on a straight flat road?

 

[GrahamFR]

Hey,

I caught the kerb (seems like a current trend) the other day... made a loud grinding sound and scuffed them up a bit - no excuse I was being lazy.

However, I have a horrible feeling lately that the steering is really light... For example I'm going over a bump in the road and it feels as if I have to hold the wheel a lot more. Or if I put my foot down, its like the steering wants to go off to one side. Obviously in this weather its more slippy, but doesn't feel right.

Not sure if i'm being paranoid and thinking about it too much, but could that happen after clipping the kurb?

N.B. Front left alloy/wheel.

most likely just in your head mate, what speed were you going?

 

[tonto]

Hey,

I caught the kerb (seems like a current trend) the other day... made a loud grinding sound and scuffed them up a bit - no excuse I was being lazy.

However, I have a horrible feeling lately that the steering is really light... For example I'm going over a bump in the road and it feels as if I have to hold the wheel a lot more. Or if I put my foot down, its like the steering wants to go off to one side. Obviously in this weather its more slippy, but doesn't feel right.

Not sure if i'm being paranoid and thinking about it too much, but could that happen after clipping the kurb?

N.B. Front left alloy/wheel.

Check tracking, tread depths and pressures.

 

[Masterkm]

Coilovers fitted and with a good clean

 

[Jarre]

Your car looks really smart mate! Hopefully I'll get mine fixed too and I can move on with the mods...

 

[leero783]

Coilovers fitted and with a good clean

Look good khal , its sets it off a treat now . Carnt wait to get mine bk now so i can put these sportlines on

 

[knoted]

Brought the wife to her internship place again like usual, then brought the Leon to the garage for big maintenance.

My maintenance book says the big maintenance should be at 50.000 kilometers, but mine's been losing
some oil lately at about 48000 kilometers, so I decided to bring it in early.

 

[Masterkm]

Got my car aligned and all sorted now and for £15

Personally i think the issue with my car after the kerb hit was the suspension top mount and not the wheel bearing housing and bearig but oh well

 

[Benjic2]

I want one

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Real-carb...=Car+Make:Seat|Model:Leon&hash=item4608f98316



Buy it to stop me buying it!!

 

[tonto]

soon as the rain stops, ill be out to hoover the interior! but till then, i have brought the mats indoors to clean up and air B-)

 

[Nath.]

fitted my gloss black mirror covers. Now they match my wheels

Just to point out that removing the mirror caps can be very hard indeed if you use fingernails or credit cards and you can damage the edge of them. I found that if I adjusted the mirror glass in as far as it would go I could get a screwdriver down behind the glass and release one of the little plastic tangs that hold the cover on. Once one is released the cover almost falls off.

 

[Benjic2]

Found out the girlfiend has bought me some BBS CH now. Looking forward to see what they will look like, although i'm not sure whether I should paint them gloss black or go for a slightly less common gunmetal grey?