what have you done to your car today ?

Bigjohn84

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May 5, 2015
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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
 

Bigjohn84

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May 5, 2015
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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

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May 5, 2015
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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

Derp
Jun 8, 2015
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Netherlands
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

Old enough to know better
Mar 15, 2013
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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 ? :D
 

Bigjohn84

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May 5, 2015
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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.
 

Bigjohn84

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May 5, 2015
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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

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Mar 4, 2015
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SCQ Spain
Did my very first DIY service. :funk:

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

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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!
 
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Bigjohn84

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May 5, 2015
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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.
 
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Bigjohn84

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May 5, 2015
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Did my very first DIY service. :funk:

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

177sef.jpg


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.
 
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Bigjohn84

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May 5, 2015
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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

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May 5, 2015
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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
 

cf22cupra

cf22cupra
Apr 29, 2013
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West yorkshire
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

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May 5, 2015
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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
 
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