Recent content by smorris_12

For those that don't follow Sreten on YouTube, he's just put up a rebuild video of a 2006 Z4M: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74-woBE6crg Already inspired me to actually get on and replace the rear shocks on mine. Enjoy!

Having rebuilt great chunks of the front end of the Zed or, at least, fitted less leaky shocks and less buggered wishbones, I finally had a rush of blood to the head Sunday afternoon and thought I should really do something about the tracking. It's been doing the car park squeal and I can't hit...

Quiz question du jour: If the car is locked and I open the boot with the key, should the alarm go off? As it stands, it doesn't. I'm mostly asking as I've got an error code for: "67 Anti theft alarm system: interior protection rear" which I can't find any details for. The volumetric alarm...

As with all old fuel cap tethers they tend to fracture and break at 15+ years old so, being mean and bored, I drew up a replacement and printed it out of flexible TPU on my 3D printer:

Cobalt drill bits are what you want. They're quite cheap in the smaller sizes from Toolstation or Screwfix and will make short work of an exhaust bolt. I had to drill out a 10.9 M10 shock clamp bolt recently and started with a 6 ish mm cobalt bit I'd bought on a bit of a whim. I didn't hold...

Yesterday I found a recent error code for the VANOS solenoid on the exhaust side which has migrated from the inlet side after I swapped them over a few months ago. I did give it a clean and wash thru with brake cleaner at the time but it's still not been quite right, so time for a new one. It's...

A mechanic friend of mine did a Z4 once and said they really struggled with the hydraulic kit they had. Since proper kit always seem expensive for the occasional job I built one out of bits and bobs about 8 years ago and it's still going strong. If I had a bottle jack instead of the trolley...

So I was changing out my high beam bulbs for some LEDs this afternoon (thanks again Paulo) when I found something that may be of use. I had a quick Google but couldn't find this. While doing the left hand side, every time I went to put the bloody awful inner cover back into place the hood would...

I have sat, stood and laid down stewing over this since last September (it's now June) wondering if I've made myself look silly[1] with all the machining, the mildly amusing language and the rest of it. Am I, I would ask at 3am to passing burglars, just looking at saggy springs? And why didn't...

So I had an hour in hand after tea yesterday and, in a rush of beer to the head, decided to make a lifting pad for the back of the Zed out of best Delrin: Works jolly well.

I feel the categories are too narrow. Can I have "Works Van"? (Somewhere I've got a picture with tools plus a set of ramps in the boot. Very capacious car.)

I've just got around to my long list of things to do, one of which is to tax the Z. Picked up the reminder, thumped in the details and they're wanting £30 more. Turns out I made a boo-boo in that the tax ran out at the end of March; in my head it's April as I bought the car pretty well a year...

Wait until summer?

Hope this helps:

If anyone fancies a powered one, Lidl have got these in at the moment: