Morning All,
I've been lurking for a few weeks (mostly reading up on all the issues people have had and trying not to worry myself!), and thought I should probably say hi!
I've had a string of hot hatches, but after the latest unfortunately left my ownership prematurely following an incident with an AMG mercedes who liked my rear bumper a little too much, I found myself unable to resist the lure of RWD. I had initially narrowed the choices down to a Honda s2000 and possibly a Z4 if I could find one within budget.... One thing led to another, man-maths was done, and finally on 12th April I popped up to London to take collection of a stunning 56 plate Metallic Grey Z4 coupe. With the manual box naturally!
I'm absolutely over the moon with it, and even coming on for a month later I'm still finding excuses to go out and drive it
It had just ticked over 50,000 miles when I bought it, and I've done a good 2,000miles since. I'm using it as my daily, and am enjoying how easy it is to live with pottering to and from work, or when driving more enthusiastically.
It is not without it's issues however; it has a snapped spring, and therefore needs 2 rear tyres as the inner edges have worn to the markers. It also has a tendency to track the road quite badly (probably due to the aforementioned issues, coupled with needing an alignment). Before you all shout at once, it has already had the run-flats ditched in favour of the Falkens which seem very popular on the forum! I was intending to go for Goodyear Eagle F1 Assymetric 2s, but am open to alternative suggestions offering the same or similar combination of dry and wet performance!
Anyway, I'll save the problems for the separate thread! On net, I'm absolutely over the moon with it, and looking forward to having a lovely summer with it! Are there any local members to the Guildford/Godalming area? Be good to see some fellow owners at some point; I'm sure there were a couple lurking in the carpark at Goodwood Supercar Sunday the other weekend!
I'd upload a photo of the car at this point, but I need to figure out how to upload photos. Is the only way to upload to photobucket or similar, and use the img code to link it into the threads?
Cheers
Ed
I've been lurking for a few weeks (mostly reading up on all the issues people have had and trying not to worry myself!), and thought I should probably say hi!
I've had a string of hot hatches, but after the latest unfortunately left my ownership prematurely following an incident with an AMG mercedes who liked my rear bumper a little too much, I found myself unable to resist the lure of RWD. I had initially narrowed the choices down to a Honda s2000 and possibly a Z4 if I could find one within budget.... One thing led to another, man-maths was done, and finally on 12th April I popped up to London to take collection of a stunning 56 plate Metallic Grey Z4 coupe. With the manual box naturally!
I'm absolutely over the moon with it, and even coming on for a month later I'm still finding excuses to go out and drive it
It had just ticked over 50,000 miles when I bought it, and I've done a good 2,000miles since. I'm using it as my daily, and am enjoying how easy it is to live with pottering to and from work, or when driving more enthusiastically.
It is not without it's issues however; it has a snapped spring, and therefore needs 2 rear tyres as the inner edges have worn to the markers. It also has a tendency to track the road quite badly (probably due to the aforementioned issues, coupled with needing an alignment). Before you all shout at once, it has already had the run-flats ditched in favour of the Falkens which seem very popular on the forum! I was intending to go for Goodyear Eagle F1 Assymetric 2s, but am open to alternative suggestions offering the same or similar combination of dry and wet performance!
Anyway, I'll save the problems for the separate thread! On net, I'm absolutely over the moon with it, and looking forward to having a lovely summer with it! Are there any local members to the Guildford/Godalming area? Be good to see some fellow owners at some point; I'm sure there were a couple lurking in the carpark at Goodwood Supercar Sunday the other weekend!
I'd upload a photo of the car at this point, but I need to figure out how to upload photos. Is the only way to upload to photobucket or similar, and use the img code to link it into the threads?
Cheers
Ed
