what have you done to your car today ?

[jackoni]

Well I took some really nice pictures of my car today as the weather was fantastic, I've noticed a massive difference since putting good oil in my car, better performance and better MPG,.

What oil did you end up going for in the end?

 

[Bigjohn84]

Mmmm think it was 5-30W Castrol Magnitex C3 mate, what a difference tho, 30MPG around town, couldn't believe it, I'm normally getting 19/23MPG

 

[Eric87]

Fuchs TITAN GT1 & Mann filter for me yesterday

 

[Bigjohn84]

Waiting for my new drive belt to get delivered, doesn't need a new one I'm just changing it cause I can haha might even see a difference in the power, the one that's on may be slipping you never know until you change it.

 

[Bigjohn84]

Steamed my engine

Forgot to write this up last night, yesterday about 8pm I went down to the car and steam cleaned my whole engine again!! I couldn't get a lot of small bits off the last time so I thought I'm gonna give it another bash so I did, still never got all it off but looks so cleaner after the steam has been in around it.

 

[mab]

I had some odd guesses that there was perhaps a vacuum leak or some issue with the MAF so I hooked the baby up to vagcom, made a few runs which didn't get past the 299 g/s mark. All other values look good so might consider cleaning my MAF sensor (or buying a new one, this one apparently is pretty old).

 

[Bouncerbeater]

Waiting for my new drive belt to get delivered, doesn't need a new one I'm just changing it cause I can haha might even see a difference in the power, the one that's on may be slipping you never know until you change it.

Why would you see a difference in power ? Is it connected to a secret supercharger ?

 

[Bigjohn84]

well I'm not gonna find out cause I got the wrong one delivered, bummer thought that's was me adding a few more horses tonight.

 

[Bouncerbeater]

Well, I ordered some new red top coil packs and some shiny iridium plugs. What an exciting life I lead

 

[Bigjohn84]

Well I've just been at my mates driving around town and you never guess what I got 39.6MPG could not believe it, all this has just started happening after putting that Castrol Magnitex C3 Oil in my car, what a difference.

 

[mesh]

Did my very first DIY service.

Changed oil and filter, diesel filter, pollen filter (which was REALLY dirty) and cleaned pipercross filter.

Vag-Com was throwing up an error on cylinder 3 glow-plug so I decided to changed them all as sooner or later the others would be going too. Have to say that changing 3 and 4 was a real b*tch!

 

[Bigjohn84]

Got burnt with the sun today, to hot to do anything to her, may give her a polish in the morning b4 it gets to hot.

 

[Bigjohn84]

Did my very first DIY service.

Changed oil and filter, diesel filter, pollen filter (which was REALLY dirty) and cleaned pipercross filter.

Vag-Com was throwing up an error on cylinder 3 glow-plug so I decided to changed them all as sooner or later the others would be going too. Have to say that changing 3 and 4 was a real b*tch!

Ur very lucky you never snapped any of them, u find that happens a lot, good to hear you got it done tho.

 

[Bigjohn84]

Well it 5.30pm I'm going to go and give my beautiful car a nice wash in the sun, then I'm gonna take her in the under ground parking and I'm gonna give her a nice polish and wax, might spend a few Hours on the polish this time, il pop a few pictures up once I've done it.

 

[Bigjohn84]

I've just finished washing and waxing my lovely looking Seat Leon Cupra 1.8 20VT she looks amazing in the sun, so pleased with how she's looking

 

[shanky77]

Replaced my faulty n75 valve that was causing intermittent boost surging issues - its like a new car now

 

[cf22cupra]

Got really annoyed with my Leons problems and started looking at audi's


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[Bigjohn84]

Got really annoyed with my Leons problems and started looking at audi's


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I've been looking at one also mate for my day to day car and just use the Cupra on really nice days and for car shows

 

[cf22cupra]

I would like to do that but space is my problem . It's been one of them weeks, gearbox started clunking/whining and noticed the gearbox mount was ruined at the same time also clutch and flywheel needs doing. Boost hose came off and I noticed Turbo bolts was loose, cv joint clunking, rear door cables stretched so it won't open, top mounts need replacing, cars started smelling on boost and it's burning a lot of fuel and oil then woke up to some nice deep scraped on my wing so all in all it's been a fun week. I need a good vag specialist to have a look and give me some ideas before I give up and scrap it


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[Bigjohn84]

That's shot mate not good atol, get one off eBay for a £5 you get the cable also, hears the item number mate 161717467805 really good piece of kit if you get it and need any help just let me know