Hello! Looking at a Z4 tomorrow.

Congrats on the purchase. I think it’s something that usually happens. You buy a car, notice some stuff that needs attention and make it your own with time.
Enjoy!
 
Beautiful! I've had a twin for about two weeks now. Same colour, same wheels, same engine and also has one previous owner. Well, it's a bit more of a problem, I guess. I'm calling her Sydney, even though my wife's not a fan of the name.
 
rich1068 said:
I bought it. Not putting myself through an hour on a train and then coming home empty handed. From York the E39 was lovely but the train to York was grim. Anyhoo, no real pictures yet apart from this one from the original ad...

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...and this one when I got back 😁

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Everything works (ish) and it drove extremely well back from Redcar. A19, A1, M1, into Sheffield. It sounds absolutely glorious and the 170bhp or whatever it is seems more than adequate with the 5 speed manual. I haven't had a manual for quite some time (do like my autos) but I did spend about 30 years driving them so I'm sure that 1st to 2nd will get a little more refined!

Issues. The exterior driver's door handle seems a little reluctant to work on occasion and there's some god awful rattling from inside the driver's door panel. Related? Who knows? I'll investigate. And there's a knock from the N/S rear on bumps which I thought could be spring/suspension/exhaust related but it's not there when I drop the roof so probably not as serious as I originally thought. That's about it for now. Oh, and it's on run flats which do nothing for the ride. Lovely on a smooth stretch. Awful on anything else. Plus all the tyres are 9-10 years old.

Needs cruise too.

The history file is something else. There are reams and reams of paper for everything since 2005. To be honest it's a GDPR nightmare. But I'll be destroying that stuff. The PO spent thousands on this car and I'm not exaggerating. Not sure whether that's a good sign or not :oops:

One last pic. It still has the original dealer tax disc holder (and number plates) so this is going back in.

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“And there's a knock from the N/S rear on bumps which I thought could be spring/suspension/exhaust related but it's not there when I drop the roof so probably not as serious as I originally thought.” I had a very similar noise recently which also disappeared with the roof down - turned out one side of the ‘parcel shelf’ wasn’t clipped in properly 🤣
 
My 18yo has just returned from a month Interrailing around Europe and spotted the Z4 outside the house. He has declared it "cool".

So, all you middle aged men out there. You're doing something right 😂
 
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