2mAns Daily Driver Thread - who knows what it is today...

[uturn]

Reading my email updates and saw someone placed a bid on BAT... didn't meet reserve but was able to strike a deal.

So I'll have to say 2man's daily driver today is something that's Lots Of Trouble, Usually Serious!

Congratulations!!!

[2mAn]

Reading my email updates and saw someone placed a bid on BAT... didn't meet reserve but was able to strike a deal.

So I'll have to say 2man's daily driver today is something that's Lots Of Trouble, Usually Serious!

Congratulations!!!

FAKE NEWS lol

daily driver is still the sh!tbox TDi… but some updates are coming to the other threads.definitely some serious trouble

[2mAn]

Decided since I have to pay for registration on the car soon that maybe I should reward it with a part, so I bought a Kerma Tuner for the car. I still need to send it to Kerma to load a $500 tune on it, but likely going to wait until I buy the Euro PD150 turbo for it….

as a treat back to me the car decided it didn’t want to roll down the front windows at all while I was baking inside. While the A/C tried to cool me off, my hot head thought of the various cars I could replace the car with… luckily it was just a fuse so the car survives another day. I’ll be taking the kiddo up to go camping with family so as long as it doesn’t act stupid I will likely buy the turbo soon and have that replaced along with fixing the pesky coolant leak that I can’t seem to find. Supposedly it’s on the back of the head, right where the turbo is, so which work is necessitating the other is up to you to decide.

Probably give the car a bath soon when e get back since it will be finally breaking 240k

[2mAn]

And now… I need new fans, and probably an A/C pressure switch.

I rarely use my A/C but with front windows that don’t want to roll down (a new wiring issue with the door wiring...) and a trip up through Central California, I drove a solid 300+ miles with the A/C running the whole time. When I arrived the fans sounded horrible and after a quick inspection under the hood it appears that one of the fans is somehow separating from the fan itself. Not sure if it’s parts of the shroud or not. A couple pics of the fans, I will likely order these one of these days and might as well buy the A/C pressure switch since it seems to be a common problem and one that I believe was also toast prior to the fans following suit...








I checked my usual suspects (FCP euro, Pelican Parts and RockAuto) and there are a lot of options and wildly varying degrees of pricing. Any tips on which one to go with or avoid?

After a solid ~800 mile road trip up to 5000+ ft hundreds of miles of driving in 90*+ and the car, even with its noisy fans made it home safely and without issue. The one pic I took at the campsite.



I hit 240k on the way home, and will likely change the oil again soon since its been about 6 months and ~3k miles. Sure its early, but why not.



Getting my mind (and wallet) prepped for the next few things. Probably do the fans myself, but will need to farm out a few other things... or maybe just buy a new Daily