What have you done to your car today?

synthedup · Post by **synthedup** » Tue Dec 31, 2019 7:48 pm

No longer a z4 owner but I still visit the forum most days and like to keep up to date on what’s happening. Busy couple
Of days playing with the z4s replacement though. Painted the callipers and gave her a good clean.

nhartgolfer · Post by **nhartgolfer** » Tue Dec 31, 2019 8:25 pm

So, why did you down grade?

mgrlane · Post by **mgrlane** » Tue Dec 31, 2019 8:36 pm

Finished a full decontamination, polish and wax. It took me 3 days.

Dubbedown · Post by **Dubbedown** » Tue Dec 31, 2019 10:53 pm

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I purchased my car with a small dent right at the edge of the trunk lid that has bugged me ever since. I finally “solved” the problem by hiding it under this lip spoiler. It works for me!

Nice spotting a fellow CT resident! I’m in Fairfield....

Dubbedown · Post by **Dubbedown** » Tue Dec 31, 2019 10:55 pm

synthedup wrote: ↑Tue Dec 31, 2019 7:48 pm No longer a z4 owner but I still visit the forum most days and like to keep up to date on what’s happening. Busy couple
Of days playing with the z4s replacement though. Painted the callipers and gave her a good clean.

Which brand paint did you go with? Wondering how close of a match that is to Guards Red... I have a set of 996 calipers that need some touch up before bolting onto the M...

Mattwxkr · Post by **Mattwxkr** » Wed Jan 01, 2020 7:16 pm

Big Andra wrote: ↑Tue Dec 31, 2019 6:22 pm
Mattwxkr wrote: ↑Tue Dec 31, 2019 3:46 pm I finally got around to sorting out the woeful speakers.

Fitted these to the footwells/replaced tweeters

https://www.hertzaudiovideo.com/car-aud ... -dsk165_3/

Fitted these to the doors

https://www.halfords.com/technology/car ... l-speakers

What a difference! Dynamat equivalent in both doors too.

For about three hours the results are amazing really. Even the cheapo Pioneers work well.
Straight swap over? I've had this idea on the back burner for a while now but would still like to do something about the poor sound quality. My to do list just keeps getting longer.

Not far off, you’ll need to do some wiring for the door speakers from the tweeter unless you’ve got something there already. The footwell speakers needed the ring cutting off the old speaker to allow for mounting. You can get speaker rings of eBay though.

Mr Tidy · Post by **Mr Tidy** » Wed Jan 01, 2020 8:57 pm

Well I taxed it and went for a drive to a local Classic Car meet, but most had left before I got there!

Still I had a good drive on some quiet A and B roads (went past Ross's new premises at one point) and was going to give it a clean but the local garage jet-washer was out of action. But I did get the driver seat memory programmed and tuned in the radio, as well as burning some super plus!

It's fair to say I'm loving it.

Ilogik · Post by **Ilogik** » Wed Jan 01, 2020 9:09 pm

Gave the old girl a wash.

rsutoratosu · Post by **rsutoratosu** » Thu Jan 02, 2020 12:40 am

Reverse led light bar.. high power led bulb doesn't do much.

woozzle · Post by **woozzle** » Thu Jan 02, 2020 10:35 am

Sideways Steve wrote: ↑Sun Dec 09, 2018 11:26 pm Busy weekend for me! Fixed a blown downpipe gasket which meant removing the rusted out old studs from the manifolds, full exhaust off etc. After that it was rip out the old damaged dashboard and replace with the new one I got.

I'll let the pics do the talking!

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how did you get the studs out? cobalt drills?

firebobby · Post by **firebobby** » Thu Jan 02, 2020 5:08 pm

Mr Tidy wrote: ↑Wed Jan 01, 2020 8:57 pm Well I taxed it and went for a drive to a local Classic Car meet, but most had left before I got there!

Still I had a good drive on some quiet A and B roads (went past Ross's new premises at one point) and was going to give it a clean but the local garage jet-washer was out of action. But I did get the driver seat memory programmed and tuned in the radio, as well as burning some super plus!

It's fair to say I'm loving it.

So much for your man flu then

buzyg · Post by **buzyg** » Thu Jan 02, 2020 7:43 pm

We have spent the day getting it dirty.

Argyll Andy · Post by **Argyll Andy** » Thu Jan 02, 2020 8:29 pm

buzyg wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2020 7:43 pm We have spent the day getting it dirty.

+1 weather’s awful up here just now and got V5 so managed to put private plate on too

buzyg · Post by **buzyg** » Thu Jan 02, 2020 8:38 pm

Argyll Andy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2020 8:29 pm
buzyg wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2020 7:43 pm We have spent the day getting it dirty.
+1 weather’s awful up here just now and got V5 so managed to put private plate on too

Weather was not too bad down south, a bit cloudy, better than the traffic on the 303 for sure.

We turned off accross country. Currently sat in a hotel at the back of Silverstone. Off to Bletchley Park tommorrow. Always wanted to visit, finally got around to it.

Argyll Andy · Post by **Argyll Andy** » Thu Jan 02, 2020 8:52 pm

buzyg wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2020 8:38 pm
Argyll Andy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2020 8:29 pm
buzyg wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2020 7:43 pm We have spent the day getting it dirty.
+1 weather’s awful up here just now and got V5 so managed to put private plate on too
Weather was not too bad down south, a bit cloudy, better than the traffic on the 303 for sure. We turned off accross country. Currently sat in a hotel at the back of Silverstone. Off to Bletchley Park tommorrow. Always wanted to visit, finally got around to it.

Lucky you, sounds like a good few days and hope you have a good day tomorrow

Unfortunately persisting with rain here

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