BMW-s segítség BMW-seknek a havazás okozta károk enyhítéséhez


Úgy gondolom, hogy ez egy gáláns felajánlás, és nem reklám így megosztom, mert a BMW-sek legalább tartsanak össze, ha már más ezt nem nagyon teszi meg az országban...



A GeSchneider.com a 2013. március 14-15-én Magyarországon balesetet szenvedett összes BMW-s márkatársának felajánlja, hogy PROFIT NÉLKÜL, azaz BESZERZÉSI ÁRON kapja tőlünk a javításhoz szükséges összes alkatrészt 2013. április 15-ig!

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Bejelentették: Nagy havazás várható. Majd hallom, hogy hatalmas crash van az M7-esen, kb tegnap (2013. 03. 14-én) kettő körül. Jelezték, hogy 40-50 autó ment neki egymásnak. Gondoltam, jól van, de biztos apró koccanások vannak, egyik befékezett, a többi meg frankón rácsúszott. A helyszíneléssel végeznek 3-4-5 óra alatt aztán ok. 
Ezzel szemben megdöbbentő volt nézni a lánglovagok.hu-n a fotókat: Itt nem is olyan apró baleset történt, hanem durva tömegkarambol. Sárga Ford Mondeo a levegőben, szalagkorlátnak préselődött X5, és nem sokkal mögötte egy E90-es. Míg a másik fotón egy E61-es formás feneke tűnik fel.

Szegény E46-os. Ez sem megy ideig sehova sem. Ha szépen lassan csúszott bele az árokba, akkor apró karcokkal meg lehet úszni a történetet. A javítás 100.000 Ft-ból megoldható.

Ekkor olvasom egy BMW-s kolléga - igaz nem BMW-vel - de éppen hazaigyekszik Budapestről az M7-esen. Indult kora délután és éjfél előtt nem sokkal adta fel végleg a hazajutás reményét Siófokra. Először az M7-esen Martonvásárig jutott, utána leterelték a 7-esre, de itt sem jutott messzire. Felvillant a sárga lámpa, a benga game over. Na sikerült végül tankolnia a martonvásári felhajtói OMV kútnál, majd megindult Budapestre, hogy ott aludjon valahol. (...)

Esti látkép.
 
Ez is nagy gáz...

... de ez még nagyobb!

Eltelt közel 13 óra, és még mindig nem ért haza, most (12:57) beszéltem vele, éppen Alcsútdoboz-Lovasberény irányából közelít fehérvárhoz, hogy onnan Szabadbattyán felé hazaérjen Siófokra... 
Meséli: kezdetben az M7-esen próbálkozott. Aztán ott mivel már lincshangulat alakult ki a, a magyar közutasokat majdnem megverték, román kamionos mentő és tűzoltó előtt megy, előzget... 7-től 11-ig várt, így megindult Alcsútdoboz fele és egyetlen egy szerencséje van: előtte egy hótoló megy!

Mese nincs: tényleg katasztrófa helyzet van. Azok helyzetét 100%-osan átérzem, akik nem tudtak mozogni, hanem mondjuk az M1-esen ragadtak, a benga kifogyott, takaró, meleg ital nincs, és nincs katasztrófavédelem, meg rendőrség sem. Hanem csak kétségbeesés. Ne adj' Isten a kocsijuk is megsérült,  ilyenkor kárügyet rendezni, rendőrt hívni. Van értelme? Aligha. Hát én tuti, hogy full ideg lennék. Közben bevetik már a Magyar Honvédséget is T-72-esekkel, meg PTSZ-ekkel. Amivel egyedül baj van, hogy már 2011-ben is csak kb. 24 T-72-ese volt a honvédségnek, így ne csodálkozzunk, hogy csak 6 db T-72 indulhatott meg. Szóval nagy a baj. De szerintem még lesznek olyanok, akik még holnapra sem érnek haza!

Végezetül pár fotó a netről:

Itt van a szerencsétlenül járt X5-ös. 2,2 tonna akadt fent a szalagkorláton. Mögötte az E90-es.


Egy másik pozícióból: Azt hiszem ennek az E90-esnek annyi, ez totálkár...

Ez a 61-es még menthető.



MOT - 2013 - Pass

I had a bit of a scare when sifting through my box of receipts and documents for the 330d, I had a quick scan over last year's MOT. My eyes were immediately drawn to the date 24/02/12.

Baring in mind the day I saw this date was 24/02/13, you might now realise why I was panicking. Thankfully, that was the date I had the car tested last year, being the organised guy I am, I had it done a month early. Actual deadline for the MOT was late March.

Panic over I booked a slot at the local testing centre and eagerly awaited the test day. Having just spent £600 on tyres and camber/alignment issues - Goodyear Eagle F1 Tyres - I was hoping for a pain free MOT.

Fingers crossed...

I pulled up to the test centre and handed over my keys and got settled for the nail biting 30min wait.

I was called over when it was done, judging by the look on the guys face it wasn't going to be good news. To my absolute delight he said it had passed, gone straight through with no issues at all with 145k on the clock! Even better, my Dad had spotted a £5 off voucher in the local paper too, so it only cost me £35.

Here's to another year of motoring.


144k Service

It was coming up for being 10k miles since the last service - 134k Service, so I thought I better sort out ordering some parts.

Servicing the 330d is far from a cheap affair, swapping four filters (I decided not to change the oil breather this time around) and the oil, I set out to do the service as cheaply as possible whilst using brand name reputable parts.

I started off looking at eurocarparts.com, as I get a 25% members discount from bimmerforums.co.uk, which usually makes it by far the cheapest. However, I mentioned I was going to do a service to a friend, he told me to check out carparts4less.co.uk after saving a bundle on his brake service.

I tilled all the parts up, identical brands to that I had selected on eurocarparts (I believe they are sister companies, same website layout etc), and it came to just under what it cost including my 25% discount on eurocarparts. I then thought I'd be cheeky and look for a discount code for carparts4less too, turns out at the time I was ordering they were offering £10 off a £75 spend. As I was ordering some parts for my Dad's car too, I got the four filters for £32.56, bargain.

As for the oil, I picked up two bottles of Castrol Edge from Costco for £29.99 each. 

So, here's the part breakdown;
  • Guttmann Oil Filter,
  • Guttmann Air Filter,
  • Hengst/Mahle Fuel Filter,
  • Generic Active Carbon Cabin Filter,
  • Castrol Edge 5W/40 Fully Synthetic Oil

I started work mid afternoon on a bitterly cold Sunday in February, not ideal for the finger tips. Quick snap of the time and mileage from the OBC for the records.


The first job was to get the car up on the ramps and the oil draining. Whilst the old black stuff trickled out I got on with swapping out the filters. First out was the cabin filter, which in all honesty looked completely fine. Even so, I wanted to get the new activated carbon one in to make the quality of air in the car a bit better. I'm an engineer by trade and had experience using activated carbon filters on crop sprayers, after running that project you learn how important these filters are.

Next to come out was the air filter, now this was a different story. Removing the engine plastics revealed all sorts of leaves and dust, not really optimum airflow conditions.


 I took the old filter out and got Henry on the case to vacuum up all the debris.

Before (left) and After (right)


The other two filters, oil and fuel, both came out without a hitch and the new ones went in with equal ease, leaving just the oil to go.

6.5 litres of Castrol Edge went into the engine which read just right on the dipstick. A quick run round the block showed no issues, in fact quite the opposite, the engine seemed nice and smooth and glad of a refresh.

All set for another 10k trouble free miles...touch wood!


Goodyear Eagle F1 Tyres

I'd known my rear tyres were getting low since Christmas, but when I came to check them late into Feb, they were really getting low, 3 Brucey bonus points each on my license low.

With my wallet already wincing I went on camskill.co.uk and priced up a pair of rear tyres. I didn't have the best of experiences with the Falken FK452's I put on a year ago. Initially they were excellent, but they soon lost grip and weren't really inspiring in the wet, towards the end of their life they became quite loud.

Wanting to avoid the Falken's I looked further down the list i.e. the more expensive end of the list. I picked out a few options that I could justify the price of (there were Yokohama's at £220 each which is rather pricey).

The short list was as follows;

Now that the EU had brought in the new rating sticker it gives you a starting point to compare each tyre, however, comparing on just the stats alone didn't really help, each tyre had it's positives and negatives.

For more info on the new EU Tyre Label this article on blackcircles is very good - Closer Look at the EU Tyre Labelling

Next step was to hit the review sites, the best one I found was tyrereviews.co.uk. It gives you the option to compare reviews on tyres that have been fitted to your car, as tyres can perform differently on individual cars. I've linked to the tyrereviews.co.uk site for each of the tyres in the list above. It showed that the Falkens really aren't liked, many quoting the same issues I've had, almost all the negative reviews quoting tram-lining, something I had suffered in a big way. Falken's crossed off, next up Vredestein, I'd not really heard of this make, but the reviews weren't too bad so a maybe. The Dunlop's got equally as bad reviews as the Falken's so that's another off the list. Finally the Goodyear's, to my surprise these tyres got absolutely gleaming reviews, with 94% of 131 people saying they would buy them again. 

The two options then, Vredestein vs Goodyear. Back to the stats, according to camskill.


The Goodyear's were better in all areas but the noise, despite noise levels being important, I thought that performance should be considered my highly, and with the highest wet grip rating you can get I was leaning toward the Goodyear's. Tipping the balance, the fuel efficiency is better on the Goodyear's too, with fuel only going up in price I hoped this might benefit in the long run. 

Goodyear's ordered on a Sunday night, delivered on the following Tuesday, thanks to camskill's fantastic service. 





The tyres looked really nice when they arrived, and even better they are actually rated C for fuel efficiency, not E as it said on camskill, result!

Next day I took all the wheels off and cleaned them ready for the new tyres. Disaster struck when I took the front wheels off, they were completely warn down on the inside edge. 


Something not quite right here then...

I took the new tyres to Selecta tyre to get them fitted, whilst they were fitting the rears I spoke with one of the staff. He said it was most definitely alignment and camber causing the wear problem. Needless to say I needed two new tyres as well, so I got them to quote me a price on the Goodyear's for the front. They quoted a price about £10 more than camskill, so for convenience I accepted and got them to order two in for the next day and booked in for a tracking/alignment/camber adjustment.

The next day I went back and they did an assessment of the current set up. Bad news, the camber was way out of wack, about 2° outside of the allowable tolerance zone. The rear wheels were cambered so that the top of the wheel was further outboard, completely the opposite of how it should be, the fronts were the opposite, too far in at the top. All four wheels were toe'ing in. 

All adjustments made the guy came back with the readings, 3 of the wheels were perfect, but the rear right had reached maximum adjustment for camber and was just outside the allowable tolerance zone, he said this was the best he could do and was a massive improvement over what it was, so I went with that. You can see the final outcome below.


All in all it was an expensive week, £600+...but by god it made a difference. The car rolls far, far better, so I'm hoping that will lead to the fuel efficiency gains the EU label says I should see. 

On my first country lane twisty drive into work it was immediately evident the handling had improved considerably. The car is now cornering like it's on rails, far better than it has ever handled under my ownership. Tram-lining has reduced significantly, hardly pulling to one side at all when crossing a white line in the road etc.

Finally then, the road noise. What a difference, it is remarkable how much quieter they are over the previous set of tyres.

I couldn't recommend the tyres more, they really were worth that extra over the Falken's. However, the alignment and camber fix has made the biggest improvement, if you think you might have problems with your car in this area, it is money well spent fixing it.




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