Hello from m44rrt in Godalming (Surrey)

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m44rrt

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I would just like to say hi and introduce myself and car

I have had my Z4 3.0 SE Auto since July 2009. Prior to that I had a 2002 clk cabrio 320 Avatgarde (silver / grey interior) - emerging tin worm on rear wheel arches meant a car change.

My Z4 has had 4 previous owners and a patchy service history :o

But low miles (24k), clean body work and a good price counter-balanced these points

My local BMW indy mechanic (specialising in all German cars) went through the car and serviced and fixed as he went - fluids, rear springs, brake pads, new MOT etc

Wheles were 108s but all needed a refurb and new tyres were needed - sourced new ones (from germany) at a reasonable price and sold old wheels

Bought hardtop, front grill, number plate, stubby, ipod adapter, cruise control, plugged keyholes

Hardtop made the rear look a small small so I had a standard rear spoiler installed

I found the interior quite dark so I bought white M sport seats (actually pearl grey) and had them installed. Then sold black M sport seats - cost neutral

Unhappy with harsh ride so went to same config as clk 17" rims and non-run flat. Found Alpina type wheels from an e46 coupe (5 spoke, 3 fingers per spoke (alpina has 4 fingers per spoke)) Pirelli P Zeros. Sheer joy after RFTs!. :rofl:

I use the Z4 every day. At the first snow flake I did the R&D into winter tyres and then ordered German winter tyres (£105 per corner) and sourced a set of winter rims (from the current e90 coupe).

I now have a summer set-up (soft top and pirellis and a winter set-up (hard top, winter tyres and a bag of sand)

Outstanding project is to get the underbody professionally waxoyled ready for the salt next winter.

For those of you that are still awake - photos follow - small jpegs from photobucket

Thanks for looking - Martin

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m44rrt - great post, I love the photos of your work. Welcome to the forum. I love the look of the hardtop. I don't think black leather looks at all bad with a silver exterior, but personal preferences :) (there's a nice colour balance), but I must say the M seats in pearl grey look really nice
 
Hi and welcome, lots of tasteful mods, except maybe the chrome front grill. You are the first on this forum to fit one. CJ10jeeper tested onr but that's as far as he went.

Shame you didnt stick with the 18" rims and go for non RFT's as that looks better and the ride is also greatly imrproved over the RFT's
 
Hi, welcome :thumbsup:

Great post... wondered if those were M seats! Good find, and the colour; one of those things where if you'd told me before hand I'd have been unsure, but it looks great! Nice change from the, ahem, silver and black.

Wheels look good too - like the 3 spoke setup, favourable to the thinner 4 spoke IMO.

What were the winter tryes? Think it will be a popular one for the next winter season... also now the snow has gone, are they better in the colder / damp conditions?

Thanks
 
Thanks for the comments

Winter tyres are Pneumant PN 150 Wintec, part of the Goodyear group. Lots of info on tiretest.com

I got them from mytyres a German org who have lots of choice of winter tyres

Choice was these or Hankook Icebears - similar prices - easier to get the Pneumant.

I could have put them on my 108s, but I like lots of rubber and air under me.

They run winter tyres in Germany, Sweden etc from Nov to end March.

Softer compound and different pattern gives better grip in temperature at 8 degress and below.

Separate rims to save wheels from too many tyre changes

Martin
 
Welcome to the forum Martin.
Interesting read and very well done on all the effort you've put into your Zed :thumbsup:
 
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