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That awkward moment when your current love meets the ex for the first time! (and the opportunity to take the photo you never could)

6 Months ago I swapped my Z4 35iS for a '09 Lotus Evora LE. With that in mind these are my top 5 best and worst things about my 35iS Best: 1. The Heater; it turns out not all heaters are born equal. The one in the 35iS seems to be particularity good at going from -5C to roasting hot in a...

Not having much luck in the Zed of late. Today had a fairly nasty collision happen beside me. The only damage to my car this is a bit of curbing damage. The question is would you replace the tyre or not? I'm really on the fence with this one.

Due to an utter moron in a tractor going down a flooded road at 35 to 40mph my Z4 got covered in muddy water. I've cleaned most of the car up, which has meant things like taking the wing mirrors apart to get full movement back, taking the door to bits, etc. However the engine is still getting...

Anyone who's worked under their E89 is the extra 2" height gain from the 67"x10" race ramp worth it or should I just get the 56"x8"? I'm leaning towards the latter but I was wanting to know anyone else's opinion.

The 3 big markets for the Z4 has been Germany, the UK & the US. More so from 2007 onwards the UK became the Z4's main European market. Z4 v's SLK in the UK Z4 v's MX-5 v's SLK v's Audi TT (Coupe & Roadster) Essentially the market for this kind of car has been shrinking. Even the 1 million...

Z4s registered in the UK by year So how much of a failure was the E89?

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So my house mates car is going back to the lease company on Tuesday so time to give it a proper wash. This was after a snowfoam and citrus pre-wash then two bucket the roof to waist line & bonnet :o

It seems to be doing better with the extra torque :scratchhead:. May just be the whole thing is a lot more controllable. Anyway. I was sent the calibration data for a power run about 15min before I started on the RR and also the calibration run for the guy after me (about 45-50 min latter)...

Much nicer throttle fidelity with 25% throttle equalling 25% of maximal acceleration. Not only that but it feels like a slightly mushy cable throttled car in response. I'm running richer on idle/closed loop which has removed almost all of the 1st & 2nd gear slow speed surging/hunting & makes the...

What's the best procedure for touching up a paint chip with BMW touch-up paint? Also what's the drying times for the paint, I've managed to lose the instructions. :roll:

Just saw the edit... I thought it was a bit :rofl:

Just found this on my phone forgot I took it.

Well my speedo seemed to be 2mph-3mph out at all road speeds with the stock tyres. Now I'm on RS3s I'm finding that the faster I go the more accurate the speedo Tyre widths are typically far less important than are height given how much clearance car manufacturers leave for tyres For this...