What have you done to your car today?

[ARCS]

Fitted my recently acquired 437M's. Not a fan of the satin black, so there will be a colour change happening at some point.

She's looking good Andy, did you get them from Peter? Yes, Wheel Wizards, Stewart did a great job as usual, turned them around in less than a day. Put two new tyres on the front also, ordered them through Black Circles and Stewart fitted and balanced them (the rears had been recently done when the car had its last service at Synter), so off Tuesday afternoon to get a 4 wheel alignment done.

Yes, wheels bought from Peter. I've always found Camskill to be cheaper for tyres.

 

[Zed Baron]

Yes, wheels bought from Peter. I've always found Camskill to be cheaper for tyres.

Now you tell me :rofl: just done a check and would of saved £20, I'll remember that for the next time

 

[Ed Doe]

Fitted supersprint x-pipe and rear cans, and then a stud and nut conversion yesterday. Then dragged the car out of the garage for a clean. I wanted to clay Polish and graphene coat it but I started late after a leisurely breakfast so ran out of time!

Quick pic of the before cleaning - stupidly I didn't get any 'after' pics where it actually looked half decent rather than covered in 6months' dust from winter storage :rofl:

 

[BMWZ4MC]

Looks great Ed, and pretty clean despite you suggesting otherwise

 

[Fred Smith]

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[chanlon1]

Took the bumper off my E86 for the first time.

Did you break any of the clips that hold it to the wings?

 

[Fred Smith]

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[enuff_zed]

Not actually done to my car, but I did fit a replacement DME to my apprentice over the road's 2.5i.
First time with that software but managed to suss it.
So anyone needing a DME replaced and not close enough to [ref]bigwinn[/ref]: maybe I can help.

 

[bigwinn]

Not actually done to my car, but I did fit a replacement DME to my apprentice over the road's 2.5i.
First time with that software but managed to suss it.
So anyone needing a DME replaced and not close enough to [ref]bigwinn[/ref]: maybe I can help.

Well done bud!

 

[Mr Tidy]

Took the bumper off my E86 for the first time. One complete and one (as expected) broken headlight jet wash (missing cap and the nozzle bit). The complete one was disconnected so I disconnected and capped off the broken one and hopefully have solved the windscreen washer tank leak. The next decision is whether to buy a new set or whether to just buy a cap and leave them non-functioning (this isn't an MOT fail on a 2006 car is it?)

Any car registered before some date in 2009 doesn't need headlamp washers, so MOT should be fine. I've bunged mine up to avoid leaks and it had gone through at least 2 MOTs without them working.

 

[Barty]

Had two visitors this afternoon! Swapped the interior trim for piano black in Joel’s Z4 (tip: you don’t need to pull off the door between the seats to actually remove the two bolts, saving you that nerve wracking task), and fitted my old AFE intake to Eelco’s silver machine. Not bad for about 3h work total

 

[Ed Doe]

Looks great Ed, and pretty clean despite you suggesting otherwise

Thanks dude, just reread the top of the page and saw your update too - I had a similar situation about 2 years ago, replaced with bosch coils too, the car definitely felt a chunk livlier as well!

Yours looks very good too - when's the next trackday?! I've got an evening slot at donny booked for next Monday, and then a ring trip in may with mates. Can't wait 8)

 

[1536Z4]

They're Bosch coil packs that match the OEM specifications

 

[1536Z4]

Fitted supersprint x-pipe and rear cans,

Are you happy with them ? .Looking good to me

 

[True-Blue]

Rear shocks on the Mrs E89, actually prefer doing these to the E85 now I’ve worked out how to access the top mounts without removing nearly all the boot trim.

For anyone who doesn’t read the E89 section, this is why you should budget for suspension refresh when buying an E85/86/89 if it hasn’t been done already…

Totally shot after 62k despite looking decent enough and not leaking, no damping at all…pushed the pistons in with almost zero effort and they’ve still not moved hours later.. car feels transformed even with just the rears done. Fronts when I have a bit more time

 

[ARCS]

Got a bit carried away with the cleaning today and decided to remove the wheels too.

Before


After

 

[jenniferlouise]

Rear shocks on the Mrs E89, actually prefer doing these to the E85 now I’ve worked out how to access the top mounts without removing nearly all the boot trim.

What did you replace them with? OE or something else? I’ve done rear springs on our E89 but not dampers…

 

[True-Blue]

Rear shocks on the Mrs E89, actually prefer doing these to the E85 now I’ve worked out how to access the top mounts without removing nearly all the boot trim.

What did you replace them with? OE or something else? I’ve done rear springs on our E89 but not dampers…

Bilstein B4 (O.E. Equivalent), Sachs weren’t available at the time I was ordering from autodoc but are back in stock now

 

[steve69]

Soundproofed the driver side door and installed a oem midrange speaker.

Greased the steering column gear rod with the teeth at the bottom today (the one with the rubber sleeve) did driver and farside. Managed to reuse those clips but in future I'll buy a crimping tool for them I think. Had steering with a lot of resistance and a bit of a squeak and a creak so I've been trying to sort that out. Silicon sprayed the UJ's also, squeak has gone but I still have the 'creak'

Switched out the halogens for LED's, now just need to code out the dash error.

Any suggestions on the steering, it's like a rubber creaking as if rubber was rubbing tightly on metal kind of noise?

Also ID'd a coolant leak, coming from the rad, Martin's kindly reimbursed me the price of the radiator and labour! What a gent, well worth buying from him definately.

Freya's a fighter, she's giving me a bit of trouble but with some love she'll turn out alright :wink:

 

[BMWZ4MC]

Looks great Ed, and pretty clean despite you suggesting otherwise

Thanks dude, just reread the top of the page and saw your update too - I had a similar situation about 2 years ago, replaced with bosch coils too, the car definitely felt a chunk livlier as well!

Yours looks very good too - when's the next trackday?! I've got an evening slot at donny booked for next Monday, and then a ring trip in may with mates. Can't wait 8)

Both will be great fun. I’ve still not made it to the ring, but I’d love to drive it one day.
No track days for me for the foreseeable future - work is busy and two kids of one and three and a half years keep me busy at home too.
Hopefully, towards the end of the year I’ll have more time. For now, I’m taking the scenic route home as often as possible :driving: