Got it!

Wow! looks like new. Hopefuly you have found a little gem there. Get the few niggles sorted and enjoy. :driving:
 
Thanks for the comments, it really is an unmarked, very low mileage example - 19500 miles. I was lucky enough to drop on it as soon as I did, the seller has had lots of enquiries in the 2 weeks it took to get the reg plates sorted. looking through it's history It seems to have been a BMW dealer demo car for the first 12 months of it's life, covering only 1000 miles in that time. It's got over and above the dealer S/H with an extra one at a Jaguar dealership thrown in, probably it was taken in part ex against a Jag and sold on through their showroom.

I'm going to use it for a few weeks - I'm due a visit to see an MX5 mate in Scotland so I'll be going up there in the Z4 (may even convert him! :) ) then when I get back I'll make a start on the fettling - first up will be the front brake discs, it's not a bad brake shake, certainly nothing dangerous (Passed an MOT last week) but it's there so I'll sort it. I may swap out the rear springs as well - get to them before one breaks! It needs a good detailing on the paintwork too so I'll break out the polishes etc and get cracking on that. I've already swapped the aerial for a wee one I took of my MX5, it looks a lot better. I'm not sure about the black protectors at the back but I'll leave them for now and decide if I like them or not. I've got enough to keep me occupied over the winter months that's for sure.

This also gets the TLC treatment, like my cars it wants for nothing................

http://www.dewisant-photography.net/y_ogb_BMW_R1200R.htm

 
Well, 4 days into Z4 ownership and I'm still not sorry I sold the MX5 Sport Black to buy it. It's a totally different drive to the Mazda, the Zed feels much more solid and substantial although not as nimble. I'm getting used to it's handling foibles though and once you get the hang of it, it really can be hustled along the back lanes. The suspension is a lot firmer than the Mazda but nowhere near as "crashy". I lowered that onto Eibach springs but they didn't really go well with the Bilstein dampers fitted as standard to the Sport based MX5s, hit a bump mid bend and the car would skip across the road a little.

Picking up speed a bit and the Zed starts to feel a bit jittery which I put down to the Runflats, I can feel some definite tramlining going on so I'll be swapping the tyres out as soon as finances allow I think, and I'll factor in a 4 wheel alignment at the same time. I'd like to lower it but we have so many speed bumps around here that it did become a problem for the MX5 - I had to drive off the estate avoiding the worst ones every time I went out.

I've spent this afternoon giving the interior a good clean out, with the hood up there's a slight smell of stale fag smoke, I suspected a past owner may have been a smoker which was confirmed when I found a fag packet wrapper under the passenger seat yesterday - along with a Status Quo CD, there's no accounting for taste I suppose :D Anyway the seats have been cleaned and treated with Autoglym leather stuff and it smells a bit sweeter in there now, I'll probably have to clean it a few more times 'til it's gone properly. Once all the tidying up bits are done I'll change all the oils - engine, gearbox and differential, probably brake fluid as well and I know it's all been done properly then. What service records state and what the car has actually had done to it are two very different things IME.

But yeah - liking it a lot so far. :thumbsup:
 
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