The Long Awaited: The Myth, The Legend, The Douchebaggery

[SlimKlim]

Mmk, guess its my turn to recover from Webopcalypse '12. I'm going to copy some stuff over from my other project thread on bimmerfest, and add whatever else I can remember, because I completely suck at keeping that one updated too.

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Ugh, I'm bad at keeping this thread updated. (See what I mean?)

Short version of the past few weeks. I rewired the angel eyes to get their own power and switch on with the interior lights and accessory lights. I added a switch next to the cig lighter that kills the acc trigger, then I can switch off the interior lights to prevent them from coming on. Not an ideal setup but its really only for when I'm working on the car and don't want the lights on all the time. I've probably tied up a few other loose ends but I can't remember what.

I took last friday off and detailed the snot out of it for the MM car show at JMU last weekend. The show itself wasn't that great (high hopes for next year!) but the guys in the club are my closest IRL car friends and since they last saw the car it has new: brakes, suspension, wheels, tires, a good polish, paint touchups, headers and probably more crap.

For the detail I removed the wheels and cleaned the barrels. Cleaned inside the front fenders, cleaned the brakes and suspension. The paint has a fresh coat of sealant so I just washed the outside, cleaned the jambs, degreased the underhood and fine tuned the engine bay (cleaned most of it a few weeks ago). I also leatheriqued the seats (gonna do another treatment this weekend I think) and they responded really well.



Met Jesse (B1MM3R) at the show, great guy and his car is badass. :thumbup:







And my goofy ass with my parent's new puppy:




Two things happened on the way home from the show. 1.) My steering wheel started squeaking. Loud. Like nails on a chalkboard through a loud speaker loud. It set your teeth on edge and made being in the car excruciating.

2.) We were about 2-3 car lengths back from a semi truck when he blew a tire. Shreds of rubber went every where, and some really big pieces got hail mary-ed way up into the air. Thanks to some race car brake pads I was able to get us out of the immediate blast zone, and we only lost the bumper grill and got some beauty marks.





I've gotten most of the rubber marks off, and I got a replacement grill for free, I just need to find a way to stick it in there without those little tabs.

Last night I pulled the wheel to try and track down the noise. It ended up being the steering wheel lock scraping against the back of the clockspring. A healthy dose of copper grease patched it right up.