Newbie from Hants UK

[sure2drive]

Welcome to the forum, great looking zed
Why not get booked onto the English Welsh meet and drive. Should be another fantastic meet and you will meet quite a few members too.

Just been looking at the recent post about the English Welsh meet, looks like a great event and not too far for a weekend away. Lovely route, I came down the Wye Valley road to Tintern a couple of weeks ago on my motorcycle, having spent the weekend in the Brecons.
I would have liked to come on this but will be returning from France that day, but I hope you all have a great time and maybe I can come to the next one. Hope the weather is great for you.

 

[firebobby]

Welcome to the forum, great looking zed
Why not get booked onto the English Welsh meet and drive. Should be another fantastic meet and you will meet quite a few members too.

Just been looking at the recent post about the English Welsh meet, looks like a great event and not too far for a weekend away. Lovely route, I came down the Wye Valley road to Tintern a couple of weeks ago on my motorcycle, having spent the weekend in the Brecons.
I would have liked to come on this but will be returning from France that day, but I hope you all have a great time and maybe I can come to the next one. Hope the weather is great for you.

That's a pity and yes it's a great way to spend a weekend, there are quite a few bikers on the forum, so your in good company. Get a photo of your bike on, sure that will get some comments.
There is Zedfest later in the year, that's another great day or you can make a weekend as plenty of us do.

 

[Zoomer]

Welcome and real nice looking Zed

 

[sure2drive]

Thanks both,
I may well stick a photo of the bike on the forum, I have a nice pic of it up on the Gospel Pass which I took on the way back from Pontistcill. Nice part of the worl for biking, and looking forward to taking the Z4 up there soon. Lovely roads for a Z4 (but I am sure there are many more places as well!)

 

[z4pilot]

Thanks again for the welcome, and for the comments on the front spoiler. I must admit I am a bit stumped. I bought it from an Indy dealer in Dorset who said he had got it from a main dealer. He said he thought the front (and rear) spoilers would have been fitted when the car was new. The car has 45K with 3 previous owners each bought though BMW dealershops, and each owning it for about 3 years. All three were lady owners in or around London, but I have no way of contacting them thanks to the Data Protection rules. I checked the history with BMW and phoned the dealers where any previous work was done to see what I could find out, but I could not find any mention of the spoiler as being an option when purchased or any work done on it. The colour is an exact match with the car (metallic ruby black) but it seems from posts here that it is not supplied as standard for the model, so that's interesting. I will look up Hamann and see what I can find out.
Thanks for your replies, this forum is just so helpful and I appreciate your interest. I'll have a look at the Welsh English meet details, thanks.

The front spoiler is a genuine BMW item, offered as part of the 'aero' kit, that constituted the front spoiler, reprofiled side skirts, rear diffuser and rear boot spoiler. You have 2 out of the set, ie the front spoiler and sideskirts, but not the rear boot spoiler and I think your diffuser is not the one originally offered (someone with more specific knowledge may be able to comment).
The interesting part is that your car is post facelift, but the aero front bumper was only offered on pre-facelift cars (to my knowledge) and if so, has been fitted at a later date. Your rear diffuser may also be genuine, but a post facelift item, as the 'aero' diffuser to match the skirts and front spoiler won't fit a post facelift car.

 

[sure2drive]

Thanks Z4pilot, I didn't know about the 'aero' kit, I think I will see if I can find out any more from the original supplying dealer, especially as I now know about the aero kit. I didn't get any paperwork with the car, just log book and maintainance record, (which is basically all you get now from dealers) so I don't know much and it just interests me to know what changes have been made, so thanks for the information.