2018 National meet,Friday 29thJUNE/SATURDAY 30th June, SUNDAY 1st JULY, UPDATE,JUNE

[craig3.2]

I followed Earthdweller to Alston and Hartside. I could keep up along the Alston road but had not quite enough oomph to power out of the corners down from Hartside.

Alston Video: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1gf9HD ... EUVuyyAz6L
Hartside Video: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1R-CSk ... IBFegfydy-

Wow !! How RAPID was that E30 Touring ?!!!!!

Yes,it was quick,though I think I heard a few people saying it did some dodgy overtaking moves,or was that another car??

Never saw it,as it was further back than me,but looked like it was pressing on in the video.
Nice videos,Dave
Surprised you couldn't keep up with it,as you usually have no problems on that front.....must have been the added weight in the car this year,lol.
Was a great run down Hardwire

[AlienZed]

Yeh he came up very quick on me .just appeared from nowhere.So thought hmmmm suicide jocky let him go.
And by fk he did

[craig3.2]

I think the 2 Tony’s at the back would have happily chased him, but the rules were that we weren’t allowed to overtake each other.

I don’t know if he was just resting or not, but when we got to a village at the bottom of the hill, he was sat with the bonnet slightly open, with a small amount of smoke/steam coming out of it.

Karma, haha.
Was good to see you again mate,and the kids to the car are coming along nicely

[craig3.2]

I hope Bob/Essexzed got home okay,and was feeling better?
Likewise I hope Kevin/benneyboy found his way home okay?
Was good to meet you both

[mmm-five]

Well, my Z4 weekend is turning out to be an expensive one, and my courtesy to other drivers didn’t pay off

On the Sunday I moved over off the road and onto a small grass verge to let another vehicle pass on a narrow section. Unfortunately, as I moved off the bottom of the car bottomed out as the front wheel went down a dip in the grass verge.

What looked like just another damaged front rubber spoiler, turned out to be a bit more serious (dangling cable near the cats, pointed out by the other Tony), as an EML came on as I was driving down the M5 to my M-specialist in Cornwall on Saturday morning (to get a pre-Ring inspection 2, brake fluid change, and Brembo calipers installed)

Unfortunately one of the post-cat O2 sensor wires is damaged and returns 0v on the code reader, and will need replacing, but the issue is that it’s an original and been on there for 160,000 miles, and as such it will not budge (with the BMW tool for the job). So it means stripping the exhaust apart to drop the cat section (which has the original & heavily rusted bolts & flanges, so will probably cause it’s own issues).

My spanner monkey now has my car stuck in one of his workshops, and will do his best to get the bits he needs by Thursday, so that I can pick up my car (for my Ring trip), before he goes on holiday on Friday.

..and the last piece of good news is that the glovebox broke (the little plastic & brass bit on the hinge) when we were taking it out to replace the cabin microfilter. Found the brass bit, but can’t find any plastic bits to epoxy together

Looks like I’m creating a CSL version, one piece of trim at a time

[craig3.2]

Bad luck re the sensors!
And how unlucky is that,to break the glovebox getting the cabin micto filter out?!
Hope you get them sorted in time for the Ring trip mate.
Annoying re the sensor and trim that got damaged bottoming out. Courtesy indeed, lol.
Mines going in next week for new Brakes,Discs and Brake fluid,plus an additional Oil change.
I cooked my brakes on the Sunday,ooops

Hope yours and s all fixed soon,and enjoy the Ring

[marypoppins]

Good to see everybody enjoyed the weekend. Well organised as usual. Pity i could not make it this year but will not miss the next one. Assuming it is going ahead.

[EssexZed]

I hope Bob/Essexzed got home okay,and was feeling better?
Likewise I hope Kevin/benneyboy found his way home okay?
Was good to meet you both

Hi Craig, thanks to you and John for organising a great weekend. On the Sunday as I wasn’t feeling great I dropped back and had a bit of a break but decided I would carry on and drive the route but at a much more leisurely pace (sudden bumps were playing havoc with my stomach ). I maybe could have caught up with you all at the lunch stop but as lunch wasn’t really on my mind I just went on. Got back to the hotel at 3:15 and went for a lay down thankfully was feeling recovered the next day for my trip back to Essex.

[craig3.2]

I hope Bob/Essexzed got home okay,and was feeling better?
Likewise I hope Kevin/benneyboy found his way home okay?
Was good to meet you both

Hi Craig, thanks to you and John for organising a great weekend. On the Sunday as I wasn’t feeling great I dropped back and had a bit of a break but decided I would carry on and drive the route but at a much more leisurely pace (sudden bumps were playing havoc with my stomach ). I maybe could have caught up with you all at the lunch stop but as lunch wasn’t really on my mind I just went on. Got back to the hotel at 3:15 and went for a lay down thankfully was feeling recovered the next day for my trip back to Essex.