What did you do for your ZHP/ BMW / MINI today? #2

[zhp43867]

Mounted this up. I had to cut a side to get it to fit with the Nav carpet.

[cakM3]

MF

Thank you sir!

Mounted this up. I had to cut a side to get it to fit with the Nav carpet.

Derek, looking good!

I purchased this little device for my ///M tonight

[rdhamill]

Today, sorry to report, all I did was check the oil. looks like it's time to change it too. Maybe tomorrow!

[az3579]

Reset factory LCM coding to diagnose an issue I was having with one of my running lights. One of the bulbs wasn't illuminating, and that spot still didn't illuminate even when another bulb was placed in that spot. I was messing with PA Soft and that is what must've caused it.

Reset factory defaults and recoded all my personalized settings. Now it's all good in the hood.

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[Dave_B]

Today I attempted to get GT1 DIS and SSS to communicate with my car.

Well, it communicated with the car, but not the laptop. Preliminary diagnosis is the DK head is no bueno. Luckily I have access to another one.

If that fails, I'll resort to a VM with new cable.

[gr330zhp]

Out of storage today! Took it for a little drive around town.

I do have to diagnose though, leaking coolant I am almost 100% sure from the tank and almost 90% from the sensor at the bottom of the tank. Also, noticed some smoke coming from the rear of the engine, passenger side. Oil leaking onto the exhaust manifold. Odd though because The valve cover gasket I changed last summer. Will look it all over in the coming week.


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[Hochspannung]

why was the picture of the wheels i put on my mini removed? don't like me ?

[Dave_B]

Just placed an order for 12 foam sealing clips. PN 51418224768

Going to be doing the A, B and C pillars this week/next weekend.

[Mtnman]

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Out of storage today! Took it for a little drive around town.

I do have to diagnose though, leaking coolant I am almost 100% sure from the tank and almost 90% from the sensor at the bottom of the tank. Also, noticed some smoke coming from the rear of the engine, passenger side. Oil leaking onto the exhaust manifold. Odd though because The valve cover gasket I changed last summer. Will look it all over in the coming week.


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Sounds like valve cover gasket. Sorry to say. Car is looking great though

[BCS_ZHP]

Had a great Easter with our family and the in-laws, then got home around 4. Watched the Caps play to a 3-3 tie and thought wouldn't waste anymore time, didn't want to give them a chance to let me down. Decided about 5:30 to finally start on those ceramic pads for the X5. Under warranty, the dealer replaced front rotors & pads and back pads about 1K miles ago but declined to install my ceramic pads when I offered them. They said if I made them put non-OEM parts on the X5 it would void the warranty, so rather than fight them I told them to just install their parts and I knew I'd change the pads to ceramics myself. Finished around 7, took it out to bed the pads, and with my full belly of Easter dinner I damn near made myself sick cause those new pads grabbed so well.

Think I'm set for a while maintenance-wise on the fleet, it actually feels kind of good to not have a car maintenance need hanging over my head. I plan to do some PM with a cooling system refresh on my mine and the wife's car over the next few months but its no rush for now. Mine has 74K miles so its about that time, hers only has 45K miles but its coming up on 9 years old so I want to do it too.