The Exclusive Club Maldives

[matthewpri]

Not great photos but this is my next project! Will upload some better ones once it's finished!

[dwoodford1987]

Photos are upside down

Ahhhh I see, well I’m picking it up this morning so hopefully Ill get it back ok.

Then I can collect my solid gold “Exclusive Maldives access all areas” key

[road warrior]

Looks nice

[dwoodford1987]

So here it is. I bought this completely blind and had it transported to me knowing it was more of a project than anything. This was the autotrader pic and pics the trader sent me

Photo on autotrader

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Photo from seller 4

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Photo from seller 3

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Photo from seller 2

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Photo from seller 1

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THIS IS WHAT I RECEIVED

What I received 4

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What I received 3

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What I received 2

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The list initially was,

- Sort Bodywork (potential with the front bumper)
- Sort seats (M Sport seats...... worth keeping defo)
- Replace Whippy

So off it went to the body shop

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TO BE CONTINUED

ON THE NEXT POST (photo limit)

[dwoodford1987]

Then the shocks felt a bit...... none existent so I replaced both front shocks, sheering 1 of the clamp bolts in the process..... Passenger side took 20 mins, driver side took 3 hours

Shock 2

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Shock 1

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CD player wasn’t working or the changer so out they came, the CD player got repaired and the changer got replaced

Cd Player in bits

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Changer out

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Then I had a mental electronic failure which was down to the airbag module getting corroded. It nearly made me give up as it took over a week to solve and killed everything else in the process, no roof, no lights, no indicators, no PDC no remote locking and nothing linked to it so I had no clue what it was. But thanks to the power of the forum I had a hunch it could be that so out it came and everything came back to life. It is one of the few remaining things to sort.

Airbag module

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Connector

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Then the seats. Quite easy really with a £10 bottle of black stuff from amazon and after stretching the leather back into place they have come up really well.

Recon’d seats.

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AND HERE IT IS

Oh yeh I managed to get some M-Sport Wheels also

Nearly done front

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Just ARB bushes to do and that’s it.

Another Maldives Blue Z4 saved

Update:

ARB bushes replaced
Lower arms replaced
Lower arm lollipops replaced
Drop links replaced
Gearbox oil changed


NOT A RATTLE ANYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!

BOOM

[Jembo]

& drop dead gorgeous she is too!!!

[matthewpri]

Hello friends, as promised this is the latest photo of the Z looking much better. Sadly no way near as juicy as dwoodford1987's but a vast improvement after some polish and elbow grease. I am still in need of a new front bumper as well as a passenger side front wing and rear quarter panel. I have managed to find someone with all 3 but he wants £240 for each. Any comments would be appreciated, is this a good idea?

[Mr Tidy]

I have managed to find someone with all 3 but he wants £240 for each. Any comments would be appreciated, is this a good idea?

Your car looks good - on that side anyway!

£240 per panel sounds dear, but if they are the right colour and in good condition I can't see you getting ones in a different colour any cheaper by the time they have been painted.

But if you're buying 3 parts, surely there should be a deal to be done?

Good luck anyway.

[matthewpri]

I have managed to find someone with all 3 but he wants £240 for each. Any comments would be appreciated, is this a good idea?

Your car looks good - on that side anyway!

£240 per panel sounds dear, but if they are the right colour and in good condition I can't see you getting ones in a different colour any cheaper by the time they have been painted.

But if you're buying 3 parts, surely there should be a deal to be done?

Good luck anyway.

They are in the right colour but not entirely sure about the condition is all. He said £600 for the 3 which isn't too bad I suppose! Thank you for the advice though!

[dwoodford1987]

I have managed to find someone with all 3 but he wants £240 for each. Any comments would be appreciated, is this a good idea?

Your car looks good - on that side anyway!

£240 per panel sounds dear, but if they are the right colour and in good condition I can't see you getting ones in a different colour any cheaper by the time they have been painted.

But if you're buying 3 parts, surely there should be a deal to be done?

Good luck anyway.

They are in the right colour but not entirely sure about the condition is all. He said £600 for the 3 which isn't too bad I suppose! Thank you for the advice though!

Agreed...... Especially if you don’t have to paint them. If you got perfect parts for free that needed painting then you would still shell out £400-£500 for a proper fitted job.

And freshly painted Maldives blue next to an original painted panel where blending can’t be done (like rear bumper to rear arch) will never match perfectly.

Trust me I know

[Jembo]

Your car looks good - on that side anyway!

£240 per panel sounds dear, but if they are the right colour and in good condition I can't see you getting ones in a different colour any cheaper by the time they have been painted.

But if you're buying 3 parts, surely there should be a deal to be done?

Good luck anyway.

They are in the right colour but not entirely sure about the condition is all. He said £600 for the 3 which isn't too bad I suppose! Thank you for the advice though!

Agreed...... Especially if you don’t have to paint them. If you got perfect parts for free that needed painting then you would still shell out £400-£500 for a proper fitted job.

And freshly painted Maldives blue next to an original painted panel where blending can’t be done (like rear bumper to rear arch) will never match perfectly.

Trust me I know

It is possible if you have a body shop who knows how to age paint ... this was the colour match when I fitted Aeros on my old 3.0

I thought it was a perfect match...

[matthewpri]

Your car looks good - on that side anyway!

£240 per panel sounds dear, but if they are the right colour and in good condition I can't see you getting ones in a different colour any cheaper by the time they have been painted.

But if you're buying 3 parts, surely there should be a deal to be done?

Good luck anyway.

They are in the right colour but not entirely sure about the condition is all. He said £600 for the 3 which isn't too bad I suppose! Thank you for the advice though!

Agreed...... Especially if you don’t have to paint them. If you got perfect parts for free that needed painting then you would still shell out £400-£500 for a proper fitted job.

And freshly painted Maldives blue next to an original painted panel where blending can’t be done (like rear bumper to rear arch) will never match perfectly.

Trust me I know

Thanks man sorry I've only just seen this! I think you're right though, I did go into a body shop and said he could blend them but would still cost like £400 a panel which I just didn't have the money for. In the end my dad gave me a lift 4 hours across to Kent and I managed to get a new front wing and front bumper for £400 the bumper had a few stone chips but still significantly better than my broken one at the moment!

[matthewpri]

They are in the right colour but not entirely sure about the condition is all. He said £600 for the 3 which isn't too bad I suppose! Thank you for the advice though!

Agreed...... Especially if you don’t have to paint them. If you got perfect parts for free that needed painting then you would still shell out £400-£500 for a proper fitted job.

And freshly painted Maldives blue next to an original painted panel where blending can’t be done (like rear bumper to rear arch) will never match perfectly.

Trust me I know

It is possible if you have a body shop who knows how to age paint ... this was the colour match when I fitted Aeros on my old 3.0

I thought it was a perfect match...

Wow! You would never be able to tell the difference! Love the Aero skirts too, they look awesome!

[Toaster_79]

Hey all,

Late to the party but looks like this is the place to fit in.

I have little mods to my 3.0i besides the exhaust, taillights, and M bumper (came like that), but I'm thinking of getting the front M bumper too, or at least a custom one. I know there's that one thread on the full conversion, but I'd like to get a few more opinions on my options and I can see there's a lot here!! Consider this my application to the club too

[wulliehall]

Will just leave these here, bought last year and love the colour.