What have you done to your car today?
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Apart from she's a stunner. I'd say you have lost the aero spoiler and a couple of inches in ride height.srhutch said:
Lovely motor mate.
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Yesterday not today!
Spent 10hours on deep clean, just felt the paintwork need a bit of a lift.
1- Quick pressure wash
2- Quick spray with Citrus Pre-Wash and agitate the nooks and crannies with detail brush.
3- Snow Foam
4 - Rinse Off
5 - 2 Bucket Wash
6 - Iron Out Treatment
7 - Rinse Off
8 - Clay Bar
9 - Super Resin Polish
10 - Extra Gloss Protection
11- Quick Detail Wax
12 - Leather Seats Cleaned and Conditioned
13 - Plastic and Rubber Protection Treatment
14 - Engine Bay Detail
15 - Wheels Poished and Sealed
16 - Tyre Gel Applied
17 - Glass Cleaned/Sealed
18- Interior Hoovered
19 - Beer
20 - Another Beer
21 - More Beer :lol:
All ready for next weekends Scottish Performance Car Show!
Forgot to take photos as I went but the Iron Off Stuff is fab, first time I've ever used it!
Spent 10hours on deep clean, just felt the paintwork need a bit of a lift.
1- Quick pressure wash
2- Quick spray with Citrus Pre-Wash and agitate the nooks and crannies with detail brush.
3- Snow Foam
4 - Rinse Off
5 - 2 Bucket Wash
6 - Iron Out Treatment
7 - Rinse Off
8 - Clay Bar
9 - Super Resin Polish
10 - Extra Gloss Protection
11- Quick Detail Wax
12 - Leather Seats Cleaned and Conditioned
13 - Plastic and Rubber Protection Treatment
14 - Engine Bay Detail
15 - Wheels Poished and Sealed
16 - Tyre Gel Applied
17 - Glass Cleaned/Sealed
18- Interior Hoovered
19 - Beer
20 - Another Beer
21 - More Beer :lol:
All ready for next weekends Scottish Performance Car Show!
Forgot to take photos as I went but the Iron Off Stuff is fab, first time I've ever used it!
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These arrived today.
Sparco wheel spacers 13mm front and 16mm for the back with longer bolts. Should be a good compromise between an improvment in stance and not being too obvious it's running spacers, I hope...
Shame to cover them up, the look great.
Will try to remember before and after pics when i fit then.
Sparco wheel spacers 13mm front and 16mm for the back with longer bolts. Should be a good compromise between an improvment in stance and not being too obvious it's running spacers, I hope...
Shame to cover them up, the look great.
Will try to remember before and after pics when i fit then.
I have Sparco spacers on my Z4 aswell. Had to buy them from a company in Italy through eBay.
Had an issue, but it's nothing major. The small bolt that attaches the spacer to the wheel hub and stops it spinning, that bolt is too long for the front wheel hubs. The rear hub bolts fitted fine, so it may just be a case of cutting the bolt down slightly, or sourcing new bolts.
I'm not talking about the wheel bolts, incase anybody has the wrong idea. It's a small Allen head bolt. You can see the hole in the spacers in Lord Oxygen's photo above.
Had an issue, but it's nothing major. The small bolt that attaches the spacer to the wheel hub and stops it spinning, that bolt is too long for the front wheel hubs. The rear hub bolts fitted fine, so it may just be a case of cutting the bolt down slightly, or sourcing new bolts.
I'm not talking about the wheel bolts, incase anybody has the wrong idea. It's a small Allen head bolt. You can see the hole in the spacers in Lord Oxygen's photo above.
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ben g said:
Thanks. Id already noticed the bolts you're referring to are the same length for both sizes of spaercs despite the wheel bolts themselves being different.
Your post confirms my suspicion.
Easy enough to cut the front ones down, though i may just be patient and order the correct size.
What size spacers did you fit?
Silverzedtom said:
Nice job, I've just checked your old "for sale" thread for comparison and those wheels definitely look much better in the standard silver against the titanium silver paintwork. I've been debating whether to go with hyper or standard silver on my 107s and looking at these two threads has helped me make my mind up.
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Loving the red roof. 
Thanks, I’m pretty happy with how it’s looking these days. Shame the list never gets shorter!MACK said:
The wheels used to show dirt and brake dust really badly too. Personally I’ll avoid Hyper silver in the future.
Today was dry after work (unlike yesterday) so decided to Jack the car up and investigate my oil leak further.
At the bottom of the gearbox, I was greeted by this
it was all over the sump and gearbox, so can only assume it's either the sump gasket or rear main oil seal which needs replacing.
I've cleaned the oil off and I'm going to have another look tomorrow to see if I can pinpoint where the leak is coming from.
I also Refitted this absolute **** of a strut brace. The horizontal bar took over an hour to fit. Now I remember why I didn't want to remove it
Then I taped up some wiring that had bits of tape missing. Looks neater now.
Finally, I fitted some fancy puddle lights to the other half's new motor. Well worth the 8 quid 8)
At the bottom of the gearbox, I was greeted by this
it was all over the sump and gearbox, so can only assume it's either the sump gasket or rear main oil seal which needs replacing.I've cleaned the oil off and I'm going to have another look tomorrow to see if I can pinpoint where the leak is coming from.
I also Refitted this absolute **** of a strut brace. The horizontal bar took over an hour to fit. Now I remember why I didn't want to remove it
Then I taped up some wiring that had bits of tape missing. Looks neater now.
Finally, I fitted some fancy puddle lights to the other half's new motor. Well worth the 8 quid 8)
collected it from BMW having had both window regulators replaced.. Now i can have the roof down again Also found out that the intake air duct needs to be replaced as rhe rubber has started to split. Hopefully an easy task. Tomorrow is repair day for the drivers seat bolster.
Also found out that the intake air duct needs to be replaced as rhe rubber has started to split. Hopefully an easy task. Tomorrow is repair day for the drivers seat bolster. 
Loughborough
Hi all,
1) Lower control arm bushes replaced (the old ones had give up the ghost
)
2) Sachs rear shocks/springs (wanted to keep my zed standard oem )
3) Sachs front shocks/ top mounts and Kilen coil springs.
4) Brembo discs and pads front and rear.
5) My 16" rims which i love now refurbished.
6) Full 4 wheel Hunter allignment. (after i did the obligatory 300mls settle for everything
)
Now my zed is TRANSFORMED!!! instead of banging and doing a shimmy at the back end and feeling every little fault in our crap worn out roads (more like ploughed fields :lol: ) it now glides over every nook and cranny. Together with my 16" and Goodyear EG's all round its like driving on air
Cheers tug
1) Lower control arm bushes replaced (the old ones had give up the ghost
)2) Sachs rear shocks/springs (wanted to keep my zed standard oem
)3) Sachs front shocks/ top mounts and Kilen coil springs.
4) Brembo discs and pads front and rear.
5) My 16" rims which i love now refurbished.
6) Full 4 wheel Hunter allignment. (after i did the obligatory 300mls settle for everything
)Now my zed is TRANSFORMED!!! instead of banging and doing a shimmy at the back end and feeling every little fault in our crap worn out roads (more like ploughed fields :lol: ) it now glides over every nook and cranny. Together with my 16" and Goodyear EG's all round its like driving on air
Cheers tug
