TVwazhere

*back from vacation, meme showcase*
 

...but I thought TV was on ZZ Top with the guitar pickups? TV and all that...

TV must be everywhere.

We must find where this TV leads us, and how it lets us chill all day on here... 😄

@IkeaGnome Congratulations on doing the seggs.

Probably. Mechanical "feel" is about what I'd expect for this

I would say that's about what you can expect with a 7500 and RX 6400...

Karma for everything I did to my parents growing up is about to come back at me.

We found out last week. Very excited!

Lucky lucky! If you pre-wet the area or lay soaked wet rags down it helps a lot.

Anyone in for some hardware gore?
 
Guess alphacool loop cleaner and a semi-copper radiator don't mix all too well.

Brake fluid in the foot well and/or squeaky clutch. Pedal feel is fine, but it just slowly leak into the cabin. Admittedly I let mine go for too Long (December - March) but at least it's not a "change it or you'll literally blow your engine in 0.37 seconds"

My head fucking hurts, but I still found it interesting

I'm on team "Headlights are too bright" especially those that don't properly push the low beams down into the road rather than up into the eyes of other drivers. I used to think this was just an issue with owners changing out perfectly working bulbs for cheap LED headlights that scatter light everywhere, but my friends new (2020) Toyota corolla definitely has the cutoff be basically horizontal with the hood of the car instead of tilted down at the road. 
 
When shopping for new fog lights I was scared to go LED, but I found good ones that are designed to worlk with my weirdly shaped rectangular ones (Diode Dynamics) and even have a yellow option. 

My head fucking hurts, but I still found it interesting

@Real_PhillBert @NinJake don't know if you guys still have your ST's but be prepared to potentially have to replace your master clutch cylinder if you haven't already. 
 

 
In hindsight this job wasn't the absolute worst. Taking out the air box and battery box is annoying but doable. The bolts holding the pedal assembly are a little hard to get to but with the right(very long) extensions and a universal joint, they'll come out. 

(Yes I need to clean my interior) 
 
Be careful not to break the sensors (like I did) sadly the top sensor is impossible to install on the bracket before reinstalling it on the car, so you gotta put the new assembly in first, then install the top sensor with your arm elbow deep into the dash from underneath. 

 
Worst part for me was bleeding the clutch. I had no pressure in the clutch bleeding it all the "normal" ways, and even renting a vacuum bleeder pump until I ordered a power bleeder for the brake fluid resevior. 

 
All in all, worst project I've ever had to do in the car, but I knew that going into this so I made sure to take breaks from being back down with my head under the dash for extended periods of time. 

I honestly hate new lights with a passion. They're blinding, have hard cutoffs instead of softer edges, glare in every fucking direction; they're not even better for you to see at night! My plain old yellow-white halogens do a far better job providing a safe light pattern for me and people around me than most modern lights do, which is kind of funny.

Edit, to add: Lights do not need to keep getting brighter to drive at 90mph in the middle of the night, you should adjust your speed accordingly and not out-drive your lights. This increase in brightness but shitty patterns/colors is pointless and creates more dangerous drivers. Also auto-high beams, dumb. So unbelievably dumb as fuck.
*lights up the world for everyone else*
Homie, your lights cast in every direction and blind other drivers as is. It is not your DRLs doing that. It's your projectors being flat out wrong.

you're likely blinding people tho regardless 😕 

Awful lot of off axis glare for not high beams.

Her's a tip some of you can use.

I envy the guys in North America.
 
Living in France, and wanting to replace my F30 328i, I need to add 60k euros of pollution taxes. I wanted that Dark Horse or M3 ...
Oh, and the GR86 is 95k now LOL

My wife and I just signed the purchase agreement on 1.6ac to build a house on.
 

It's amazing what some cleaning and paint can do for looks.