Hello all,
Slightly late as I bought my Z4 in about April (from someone on here, oddly enough) but just haven't got round to joining in yet. Been saying to anyone who'd listen that I ought to buy one for years but kept sitting on the idea until a particularly dull bank holiday when I saw it up for sale and, on a whim, phoned the owner and asked him to talk me out of buying it. Which he completely failed to do...
It joins my 275,000 mile E46 320d and a 177,000 mile E53 X5 as another financial burden! I joke: neither have cost serious money to run. The 3er makes granite look tricky and unstable. This is the first car I've run since my E36 20 years ago that has come to me at under 100,000 miles (Zeds on about 95k IIRC.) The idea of a low mileage car fills me with dread! Even the 13 year old, 10 owner wreck of a Disco that the X5 replaced went from 170k to 210k in 5 years at minimal cost (if not minimal amounts of parts!) Though blowing its heater matrix most inconveniently in the January snows made me say "sod mending that, where's the Autotrader" and I bought about the cheapest E53 to replace it, handily found at a car dealer at the bottom of the village.
As you can tell I work on my cars myself. So far the Zed has had:
* Front suspension jacked up 12mm to stop it grinding its nose on every last bl00dy speed hump in christendom
* A rattle-can respray of the aforementioned bumper (actually can't see the join in paint, so pleased)
* Respray of the door pulls (the success of which made me try doing the bumper)
* Respray of the steering wheel and window switch plastics (the success of which made me try doing the door pulls....)
* Aux-in added (the CD laser is going blind)
* 5v buck converter, USB socket and Bluetooth dongle nailed under the dash to save using the aux-lead (only just done that bit)
* CDV removed (that was in about week 1)
* Gearbox and diff oils changed.
* Added an extiontionately expensive, if new, cruise control stalk
* I have even washed it several times. This is not something that I normally do to my cars
Slightly late as I bought my Z4 in about April (from someone on here, oddly enough) but just haven't got round to joining in yet. Been saying to anyone who'd listen that I ought to buy one for years but kept sitting on the idea until a particularly dull bank holiday when I saw it up for sale and, on a whim, phoned the owner and asked him to talk me out of buying it. Which he completely failed to do...
It joins my 275,000 mile E46 320d and a 177,000 mile E53 X5 as another financial burden! I joke: neither have cost serious money to run. The 3er makes granite look tricky and unstable. This is the first car I've run since my E36 20 years ago that has come to me at under 100,000 miles (Zeds on about 95k IIRC.) The idea of a low mileage car fills me with dread! Even the 13 year old, 10 owner wreck of a Disco that the X5 replaced went from 170k to 210k in 5 years at minimal cost (if not minimal amounts of parts!) Though blowing its heater matrix most inconveniently in the January snows made me say "sod mending that, where's the Autotrader" and I bought about the cheapest E53 to replace it, handily found at a car dealer at the bottom of the village.
As you can tell I work on my cars myself. So far the Zed has had:
* Front suspension jacked up 12mm to stop it grinding its nose on every last bl00dy speed hump in christendom
* A rattle-can respray of the aforementioned bumper (actually can't see the join in paint, so pleased)
* Respray of the door pulls (the success of which made me try doing the bumper)
* Respray of the steering wheel and window switch plastics (the success of which made me try doing the door pulls....)
* Aux-in added (the CD laser is going blind)
* 5v buck converter, USB socket and Bluetooth dongle nailed under the dash to save using the aux-lead (only just done that bit)
* CDV removed (that was in about week 1)
* Gearbox and diff oils changed.
* Added an extiontionately expensive, if new, cruise control stalk
* I have even washed it several times. This is not something that I normally do to my cars
