What have you done to your car today?

[pp1600]

The nostrils were showing signs of crustyness so just had to get my fingers in there... pulled out these beauties!

The bike restorer in me started to polish the cross member but quickly came to my senses.
Finally have a lovely blast cabinet so made light work of the bracket. Both ready for some fresh black paint...

 

[Cv6benplus]

A more mechanically minded and confident friend came round today, Will.
From 9am we've changed the rear springs on his Z4, and rocker cover gasket on my 2.0 cheap project. Then we changed a rocker cover gasket, an oil filter housing gasket and both front shocks absorbers on the 3.0 Dark Knight project.
Replaced some broken plastic trim, fitted roof micro switch and fitted new parcel shelf on his car.
Still to do at a future date on the Dark Knight project is sump gasket, engine mounts, idler pulleys, belts, front drop links, anti roll bar bushes, vanos service with tensioner and timing chain tensioner.

A very full and busy day.

 

[Melman]

A day of cleaning and spraying calipers Lamborghini Bronze. Very pleased with the muted/not too brash result against Monaco Blue

Obviously I should have took a picture with the foil and tape all removed….

 

[RyanZ4M]

Today I had delivery of new left and right kick plates from BMW Park Lane. Along with another set of new old stock sealed Mats. Again from BMW Park Lane. (BMW UK on eBay)

Stocking up for the future. Also looking. To get a good 10-15 years of servicing consumables but will need to keep them UV protected and in a climate controlled environment to prevent things like o rings and seals failing.

 

[caius]

Thought I could hear a slight knock from the near side rear when running over bumps, had it up on the ramps and couldn’t see anything. Wondering if it might be the top mount, appeared after doing the hardknott pass which is bumpy AF.

Finally remembered to check the roof drains too, offside wasn’t flowing properly. Eventually got some negative cable fed up from the bottom and my arm covered in wet mud. Mmmmm.

 

[Cv6benplus]

Busy long weekend at Midlands HQ.

Friday saw the rear shocks on the Dark Knight project replaced with new and eibach springs fitted. I also began swapping out the grey interior for black. The panels behind the seats and central rear console were changed. Then I relocated the roof motor to the boot, far easier than the 1st one I did, but it was still difficult. I also fitted a wind deflector kit. On the 2.0 I swapped the extended leather windscreen trim for standard and fitted a roof motor.
Saturday saw young Will come over. Half my age and vastly more competent, knowledgeable and confident with the mechanicing. Between us, but with me as his assistant and following instruction, we replaced the rear springs on his Z4, then on the 2.0, replaced the rocker cover gasket. Then on the 3.0 replaced the rocker cover gasket (we had 2 gaskets), the oil filter housing gasket and both front struts were replaced with new and with eibach springs.
Then back on his car, we replaced some broken plastic trim to the rear of the roll hoops, fitted a micro switch and replaced his broken parcel shelf.
Today, Sunday, had someone come round to have a replacement EPS motor fitted, a successful job.
I replaced the front left wing on the 2.0, removed the extended leather door cards and replaced with standard black ones. The seats were removed from the Dark Knight project and the wife set to cleaning the carpets. The extended leather cards were then cleaned and fitted into the Dark Knight project thus removing the hideous light grey ones and revealing some previous persons less than handywork that I rectified. A few more light grey trim pieces were swapped out for black and some light preparation on the centre console and air vents leading up to a full dashboard swap.
More parts for the Dark Knight project were ordered, sump gasket, engine mounts, front drop links and a couple of pulleys, when these get done, we'll also be doing the front and rear anti roll bar bushes and a vanos service with the X8R kit.
Had to stop today for the F1 and Monday sees a quieter day as we have Coventry City FC promotion parade to go and view.

 

[enuff_zed]

Well I never knew Will Young had a zed!

 

[CuppaTea]

Sorted the sticky caliper. This involved chopping up a scaffolding plank I had in the garage to use as ramps (because I'm not buying yet another jack). Some polish on the sliders and wire brush/copper slip on the carriers has fixed the problem. I now coast rather than halt. Got my first proper drive. Am smitten

 

[Cv6benplus]

Completed the interior swap today on the Dark Knight project. Wife assisted so saved some time.
No concrete date yet but the Dark Knight project is coming along well so far.

Interior swap with exception of the carpet and the speaker covers. Some details still to finish interior wise.
BMW Z4 E85 2004, 3.0i, 111700 miles, sapphire black. Hard top, extended leather door cards and windscreen trim, premium audio, powerfold mirrors, piano black dash trim, Msport MFSW, cd changer, aux input, LCI air vents and heater controls, heated red Msport seats (not yet fitted) passenger seatbelt buckle coded out (still to do), new suspension and eibach springs all round, rocker cover gasket, oil filter housing gasket.

Still to do mechanical and otherwise, sump gasket, engine mounts, front drop links, front & rear anti roll bar bushes, oil change, vanos service, both belts, wheel swap and refurbishment, gear knob, possibly cupholders, hard top corner repair, boot lid swap, black and white badges.

 

[Roberltd2]

Fitted new brake disc splash guards to both rear wheels. The old ones had become corroded to the point where the stud holding one of the handbrake shoes had broken off.
The new splash guards are made by Apec, made of aluminium and are painted so it should be at least another 20 years before the job will need to be done again with a bit of luck.

 

[CuppaTea]

Fitted a Bluemusic adapter so I now have sounds other than the engine and wife.

Am curious what the far left button does? Absolutely nothing on my head unit, so it seems. I now have a lot of treble

 

[caius]

Looked at the front tyres last weekend and decided they were bald enough to replace, especially as the new ones were sat in the shed thanks to @flybobbie selling me a set earlier in the year.

Turns out two front tyres fit in the passenger seat quite happily. All ready for a run this weekend now.

 

[Astonyeah]

Got the wheels I picked up off of @Kbs133 fitted today, think it might look marginally better now!

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If anyone’s into restoration or wants a bash at it, and you’re keen for a ‘bit of a project’, give me a shout.

 

[enuff_zed]

Fitted a Bluemusic adapter so I now have sounds other than the engine and wife.

Am curious what the far left button does? Absolutely nothing on my head unit, so it seems. I now have a lot of treble

Pressed on its own it toggles the display between radio station or clock.

 

[Cv6benplus]

In a spare truck whilst mines on MOT this week, so I'm home every night as we don't sleep in anything other than our allocated truck.
Swapped in the msport seats that look far redder in the picture than they are in reality.

This is turning into quite the nice project now.
Wheels in for refurbishment today as well.

I couldn't justify the cost of refurbishing a set of 108s. So it's having 107 ellipsoids which are half the cost to refurb. I have to order 4 new tyres for it.

Engine mounts, CCV and front drop links have arrived too so I'll fit what I can over the weekend.

Parts run to Derby on Saturday morning 1st.

 

[tomoz4white]

Unsorned For Summer 26

 

[RyanZ4M]

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That leather on your passenger door card is the best I've seen. It looks really tight, most are really saggy now. Did you hit the jackpot? Or did you manage to get it to look like that? If so how

 

[Cv6benplus]

That leather on your passenger door card is the best I've seen. It looks really tight, most are really saggy now. Did you hit the jackpot? Or did you manage to get it to look like that? If so how

Thanks. Purely luck. The picture I had online was not clear and I frankly took a punt on a picture I couldn't zoom in on but could see the seats were new England.
I gambled, and on this occasion it's paid off.

 

[flybobbie]

Looked at the front tyres last weekend and decided they were bald enough to replace, especially as the new ones were sat in the shed thanks to @flybobbie selling me a set earlier in the year.

Turns out two front tyres fit in the passenger seat quite happily. All ready for a run this weekend now.

Nice to know going to get used.
My Michelin's on E89 very happy with, nice change.

 

[PDJ]

Said goodbye to my Z4MR