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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:

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...

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...

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'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?

So, recently, we've had the £8.49 rear discs at ECP and yesterday it was a cheap Pagid caliper at Halfords which led to £22 front discs which I thought I really better avail myself of pronto. I went to Halfords web site, shoved the discs in the basket and thought I'd check out the pads at the...

Generally for parts I've always found eBay to be sharp on price with someone having a brand I'll happily buy but yesterday I was struggling to locate a decent EGR for a friend's Ford Transit and ended up at Autodoc's doorstep. Ordered it and hope it'll turn up before the end of time. Now, I'm...

One of these things where I've googled but every answer is "do the initialisation" which I don't think is it (and I've done it several times along the way) so I'm looking for people who've dug into how the regulators work. My driver's window doesn't quite drop *enough* when the door opens. The...

So I've just got back from a 2 day jaunt to the Midlands and have racked up about 300 miles. The night before I left, just as I got home, the odometer ticked over 98,000 and, with a long trip coming up, I reset the trip counter. Fast forward to getting back tonight and... ... the trip...

Anyone got a UK passenger side subwoofer grill up for grabs for an E85? Not worried about colour as I'll spray it up. Cheers m'dears.

This is a public service announcement, mostly for my own benefit, on how the ruddy hardtop fits back in its bag come springtime. I think we tried every possible permutation to get it in there six months ago: But I'm quite liking the look:

I'm curious what the soft boxes that live around the subs in the 10 speaker sound systems. Are they just effectively wadding or are they rigid boxes with padding? I'm leaning towards the latter since the little ports connect them to elsewhere (each other?) And do they ever come up for sale...

So I was having a trip out Saturday and had the roof down, as you do, when I noticed something that has escaped me in the five months I've had the car: They're different colours front and back!!!? And not in a good, E89 way but in an irresponsible, asymmetric, British Leyland way. Needless...

Hi all, Anyone got a share clown nose (aka rear view mirror LED cover) kicking around? It's a bit of a long shot but mine is missing it (it was missing the led too until I soldered a new one in) and it looks silly without. I remember they were contentious when first introduced but I didn't...

From the day I bought my Z I was scraping the living hell out of the front splitter. I was used to the idea that it's a low 2-seater but it was ridiculous. Almost any shaped speed hump would grind. I did some googling and found that 2.5si's seemed to be prone to sitting low. I came across the...

One of BMWs less great innovations was the soft touch finish for various panels on cars from the late 90s onwards (gosh, that seems a long time ago yet somehow so recent.) After a few years they get all scuffed and was the one thing that really let my Zed down. The worst of is was the steering...