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Hi Folks,

My name's Peter and I finally bought a Z4 after lusting over them since I first saw Hammond review one in Portugal on Top Gear back in 2002!

I'm a bit of a BMW nut, previous car was an e92 335i and also had 3 x e36s over the years.

I'm based in Ireland where sadly there's zero Z4 action. I flew into East Midlands Airport about 3 weeks ago and picked up this sweet low mileage (67k) well cared for 3.0i manual and brought her home

I'm told it was a regular at various car events so maybe someone will recognise it.

I'm using the previous owner's photos because... Well I'm sure you all know what the weather's been like :p






Hope to get to know you folks better, check out the classifieds, and hopefully even join you at some car events over the year ( ferry trip wasn't so bad :p )

Welcome to the forum Peter.
Well done posting photos on your 1st post, it keeps the photo police happy.
Car looks great, watch out for high curbs and speed humps

Welcome to the forum.
Your car looks well sorted.

Have you any plans for it?

Really nice looking zed , welcome

Looks terrific clearly a doted on example , welcome to the forum

Hi and welcome. A 3.0 roadster - well done sir

Hi and welcome.

Looks great - nice styling mods
Great photos for your first post welcome along Peter

Welcome, where in Ireland are you? There’s a few z that meet in Northern Ireland.

Hi & welcome lovely looking roadster you have there, some nice mods too

Hi and welcome lovely looking z4

Welcome to the forum Peter

Cracking set of photos to start off with

Thanks for the warm welcome!

To answer some of the questions, I’m based in Dublin. Would 100% come to a meet up north if there was one, itching to get to any car events!

Also yes, the car was very low indeed, too low for the roads around here anyway so first order of business was to refit the original springs.

This is what it looks like now... still quite low actually but a lot more drive-able.



Previous owner fitted the aero kit and spoiler, had it detailed and ceramic coated, refurbed the 107s, wrapped them in Bridgestone RFTs (SO HARSH..), and fitted them with spacers, fitted gloss black grills, stubby antenna, an oil temp gauge (very clean install), and had it lowered on 40mm FK springs (now for sale if anyone’s interested they have about 1k miles on em), he also tinted the headlights, fitted Bluetooth streaming, USB port and an AUX in (also very clean install).

Oil Temp Gauge:



What I did so far is refit original springs, replace a drop link that’s seen better days and get a 4 wheel alignment. Plans? Well the list is getting bigger by the day.. but some of the items I’m not sure are very cost effective, like performance seats

-Need a xenon levelling sensor to pass the NCT (Irish MOT) (anybody got one?)
-Might reinstall the foam in the sound generator (have that)
-Retrofit Power Folding Mirrors (costly?)
-Retrofit Cruise Control (easy to do?)
-Roof Down Side Covers (wanted them as soon as I became aware of their existence!)
-Original Mats (Main Dealer maybe)
-Refit 3.0i Badges but in gloss black
-Mirror Switch (mine works in every direction except up for some reason)
-Performance seats ($$$$$) or maybe M-Sport seats (heated and manual preferably)
-MFSW M-Sport Steering Wheel (could I get the buttons to work?)
-Exhaust (NEED SOME SNAP CRACKLE AND POP, decat + muffler delete maybe?)
-3.64 or (3.46 at least) LSD (This is top priority)
-Suspension (Least priority - will see if normal tyres make it less skittish)
-Boot pop mod ( this is just cool )
-USDM Lights (anybody do this?)

Welcome to the forum, nice Z!

Looks like it's had the full Maxton design treatment, spoiler skirt extensions rear slats and front splitter. My kind of car

Thanks thanatu, Maxton indeed. They left a little plaque under the bonnet. Very nice Z yourself is that a Rieger rear bumper? What route did you go down with regards to the exhaust?