What did you do to your Mk5 today?

[cdogg]

blacked out my badges this week...

[phaeton]

Washed and vacuumed it

[JY086]

Installed Schwaben Slotted Front Disks, EBC Red Stuff pads.....

[adzy]

Had some new shoes fitted. Went with the Bridgestone Potenza RE 070

[Silver dub]

Our new number plates arrived damaged today.

So i had to lodge a claim through Aus post for damage goods and now i could be waiting for another 2-3 weeks to get new ones.

Grrrrrrrrrrr not happy

[johnc]

Installed a 64GB Solid State Drive into my RNS-510. Let's see how long it takes to fall over, if at all.

[benough]

Badass. Is the load and seek time almost gone now?

[johnc]

It's still taking a while to copy songs to the HDD, but I'm copying about 32gb in 1 hit from an SD card. Slight improvement in speeds, but I'll have to see what it's like when I'm navigating through the menus and skipping tracks etc. It's a hell of a lot quieter though, in fact, it's silent.

You have to strip the entire unit down in order to access 1 of the 4 screws holding the HDD in place. Every circuit board and panel needs to be removed. It's an intimidating job. Need to make sure you have a long and narrow T8 driver for the 2 screws on the heat sink. Other than that, it was just some care and patience.

[benough]

Nice one. I surprised you were game enough to open up the headunit.

How can you tell it's silent? With the exhaust and twintake?

[johnc]

LOL. Good point. I've only noticed how quiet it is when it's off. Won't make ANY difference when she's running. Let's hope those seek times are better than.

I got game when I sold my other one on which was covered by a local warranty. Figured I'd better learn more about these things. Pretty comfy with safely pulling one apart (and putting it back together) now.