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Old 02-04-2019, 06:31 PM
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What did you do to / for your E53 today??

Mine is vise versa. My windshield was replaced with Pilkington but wish it was Sekurit.


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Old 02-04-2019, 06:36 PM
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Mine is vise versa. My windshield was replaced with Pilkington but wish it was Sekurit.


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Why Mr. R? I thought Pilkington was the first "go-to" for replacement on our E53?
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Well all my side glass are Sekurit so just because of lol


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Not today, but yesterday I replaced two ignition coils, changed the oil and filter, replaced the hood and liftgate struts, made two ramps out of a pair of 10' 2x12's, and installed a new battery... busy day.

I also tried to completly fry my eeprom with a ham handed attempt at re-coding my temp gauge. But I got saved by Overboost.
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Not today, but yesterday I replaced two ignition coils, changed the oil and filter, replaced the hood and liftgate struts, made two ramps out of a pair of 10' 2x12's, and installed a new battery... busy day.

I also tried to completly fry my eeprom with a ham handed attempt at re-coding my temp gauge. But I got saved by Overboost.
Nice, you reach 300k miles yet?
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Old 02-04-2019, 09:21 PM
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Nice, you reach 300k miles yet?
Not quite, 293,850. So I'll be at 294K by wednesday. I have to drive to the office the next three days. That's a 160mi. roundtrip each day. I'm guessing around May 1 I'll hit 300K. If we last that long!
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Well all my side glass are Sekurit so just because of lol


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Wow, I thought my OCD was bad...

I went out and looked at my side glass too and sure enough. Sekurit St. Gobain...
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Old 02-05-2019, 01:51 AM
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Dropped the truck off this morning to have Xpel done. Hope to have it back Thursday or Friday. First time it's been driven on a public road in over 2 months. I can now confirm that the loose suspension clunk I had from the front end despite having all new components was due to a loose front tension arm bushing bolt/nut. That was the only one that took significant turning to reach torque spec... I think it was a full turn or more. Truck feels VERY tight now.

So with the garage empty I did some sweeping and decided to work on some small things. Got the rear emblem mount plasti-dipped and used a couple of coats of glossifier for a slight shine.



Also finished cleaning up a test wheel from the parts truck. The heavily abused 19" chrome style 132's. I'm not a YouTube reviewer or anything... but I am going to do a video review on Meguiar's chrome wheel cleaner $7.99 at O'Reilly. I was THAT impressed with it. Stuff destroyed a product 2.5x more expensive (Chemical Guys) which was basically useless. Check this difference out.

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After Chemical Guys + agitation with boar's hair brush:



After Meguiar's Wheel Cleaner + agitation with boar's hair brush:



After 2 applications of Meguiar's Wheel Cleaner:



Total cleaning time per wheel with Meguiar's would be about 20 minutes in this condition. I used to spend 2 hours on a wheel that looked like this and not get as good a result. If you are interested this is the stuff and is made in different flavors for chrome, aluminum, etc but I'm sure they are all fairly similar:



Upon searching for that image there are already some YouTube reviews out there... maybe I'll skip that. But this stuff is GOOD.
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Wow, that is impressive. I'll try to pick some up tomorrow. O'Reilly's right down the street from work.

Thanks for the effort and the pics, looks great.
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I have chrome wheels on my f250. I will give that a shot for sure.
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