A thread for all those random thoughts you have about your car, cars you want to buy, cars you see, etc.

Today's thought: Holy fuck I love my car. Gave it a detail after work, and despite it being an 03 with 520,000km on the clock...I still turn around every time I park it and gaze back at it. I love my car.

I had three adults and my two kids in my e46 and I realized how gutless it is .

Operation notch fill, as my current hood is about 50% bondo, 30%, and 20% hood.







Steel shaped and welded in, no pic but I also threw a layer of body filler on the underside to seal/make it feel a bit more uniform....will be sanding/shaping/etc next week.

why not just order a new hood or find a replacement hood in a salvage yard?

Posted by Samurai why not just order a new hood or find a replacement hood in a salvage yard?

She's got a badgelessgrill - needs a notch filled in the hood.

That is a salvaged hood, I have a badgeless grill in there that I think looks silly with the notch from the VW left intact.

I have the same car, Im trying very hard to sell it but no bites so far.

Posted by Nismo I have the same car, Im trying very hard to sell it but no bites so far.

JettaWagen with the ALH?

Posted by shadowedsmile JettaWagen with the ALH?

Mines a PD

That's probably why. If it was an ALH it would probably go pretty quickly.

The 24v VR6 GLI came home on Saturday....with even more problems than it went into storage with. Regardless, I'm still taking it to work tomorrow....power steering or not. I forgot how much go that car has, and after a winter of driving my ALH, I stomped on it and VROOOOOOOOOOM!

The Transmission and engine are rebuilt and installed in the frame finally. Now for the rest of the jigsaw puzzle from hell...

What are you building?

I think the VR6 needs more dash lights.

Posted by shadowedsmile What are you building? I think the VR6 needs more dash lights. http://i1179.photo...D-9BFAB575C303.jpg

typical VW Christmas tree

my Subaru has quite a festival of lights going on as well, ABS warning light, BRAKE warning light, CHECK ENGINE light, SECURITY light that comes and goes... it's actually quite festive in the dark.

Posted by shadowedsmile What are you building? I think the VR6 needs more dash lights. http://i1179.photo...D-9BFAB575C303.jpg

1953 Dodge M37



What she looked like when I bought it

Looks like quite the project if you're building it from the ground up!


Got my notch fill finished on the wagon's hood...now I just need to repair a couple of rust spots, and then figure out paint.




VR6 fender featured in the corner of the pic...in the garage and up on stands being fixed. The subframe has been nicely protected by a year of having power steering fluid puked all over it. Good thing I had a shower before going into the garage.

Who needs boot clamps when you have zip ties and hose clamps?

Posted by shadowedsmile https://scontent-l...0b64ed&oe=55D7F880 https://scontent-l...1f3c94&oe=56088F76 Who needs boot clamps when you have zip ties and hose clamps?

i always use zip ties for that.

got the Subaru back yesterday... kind of nice to only have the ABS light lit. To change brakes, rotors, ebrake hardware and pads, and muffler/intermediate pipe was only $250 labor.
On the downside, we had to go get my nephews' old Jeep Liberty... sounds like it dropped a cylinder. Engine has got that deathrattle so I am taking him today to find a small pickup (or Subaru... lol)

Posted by Samurai got the Subaru back yesterday... kind of nice to only have the ABS light lit. To change brakes, rotors, ebrake hardware and pads, and muffler/intermediate pipe was only $250 labor. On the downside, we had to go get my nephews' old Jeep Liberty... sounds like it dropped a cylinder. Engine has got that deathrattle so I am taking him today to find a small pickup (or Subaru... lol)

I've fixed a few libertys with busted valve springs ....