Wrenching today turned into a good news/bad news situation. Good news: I'm getting my money's worth out of my QuickJacks. Better news: I fixed my transmission! Replaced the solenoids, filter, and fluid, plus the plastic bits circled in the photo, which are a common failure point. These were almost certainly original, meaning 16 years and 226K miles old. Yikes!
Bad news: the water pump crapped the bed half a mile into my test drive. Sigh.
#WeirdCarMastodon #WrenchEveryDay #BMW #E90 #DIY
The half-way point of the four hour job of replacing my #bmw #e90 #335i 's headlights. I'm finished now, but this is the biggest job I've taken on so far working on my own car. I'm going to be exhausted tomorrow
A more detailed report from #ITV - showing registration mark of the #E90 (1,8L 150PS engine (if unmodified)) and tributes to the lads who died.
One family is calling for #GDL (Graduated Driving #licence to be fully introduced in UK with passenger/power restrictions - but it may not prevent a young person getting that particular #BMW and also risks creating a lot of angry young lads who get off their arses and vote Reform in the hope of reversing the legislation..
Middle class young lad tried to #drift his #E90 #BMW in #Oxfordshire whilst taking #nitrous at the wheel - it did not end well for everyone in the #car - 3 #fatalities, driver badly #injured, #nicked as soon as he was out of #hospital - guilty of causing death by dangerous #driving and will spend about 6,5 years in His Majesty's #Prison (sentence would have been reduced for guilty plea) #RoadSafety
CW: footage of crash aftermath and Police interview in link
Picture a Day: Dec 16 https://cjs-wunderkammer.ghost.io/picture-a-day-dec-16/
Picture of snow from the archives and an impromptu rave for the Nokia E90 Communicator phone which I used to take this picture
#bmw #e90 #e91 #e92 #e93 models with the zf6 have a known issue where wires in the shifter mechanism break from excessive stress, preventing the driver from accessing sport mode and manual mode. This recently happened to my car, and I'm proud to say I spent two hours removing the center console, soldering five wires, and putting her back together. I'm very excited to have that functionality back. #cars #diy
ハッシュタグを何にするかで意思統一が図れない。まあ複数書けばいいという考えもある。こんな感じで。
#マストドン自動車部
#自動車部
#BMW
#E90
Bonus unrelated thing I modelled recently - window shade clips for BMW E90: https://www.printables.com/model/480857-bmw-e90-rear-window-shade-clips
On This Day 1st March 1996.
G-WELL, Beech E90 King Air, parked on Gate 200/201 at Manchester Airport, 1st March 1996.
#avgeek #planespotting #otd #manchester #man #egcc #l12 #beech #e90 #kingAir
#aero-spacelines #airbus-skylink #b767 #beech #boeing #e90 #egcc #egkk #egll #gatwick #giv #gulfstream #heathrow #king-air #l13 #lgw #lhr #london #man #manchester #saudi #saudi-arabian-airlines #super-guppy #trans-world-airlines #twa
https://www.mancavgeek.co.uk/photo-of-the-day-1st-march-2020/
