What have you done to your car today?

[synthedup]

Made a custom heat shield for my ram air filter. No one seems to make them for the 2.0

 

[Beatman]

Made a custom heat shield for my ram air filter. No one seems to make them for the 2.0

Nice work on the fabrication.

 

[synthedup]

Made a custom heat shield for my ram air filter. No one seems to make them for the 2.0

Thanks. I’m happy with the outcome and for £25 including the paint it was cheap
Nice work on the fabrication.

 

[Trav]

Nice job. I nearly didn't scroll down past the cardboard mockup pictures as I thought it may have been a joke post. Do you lose a bit of induction noise?

 

[synthedup]

Nice job. I nearly didn't scroll down past the cardboard mockup pictures as I thought it may have been a joke post. Do you lose a bit of induction noise?

I will let you know later, need to test drive it

 

[Darren Slone]

Great work there

 

[Darren Slone]

Oil service on the Coupe and check around, it needs new front discs and pads, fortunately I have a pair in the garage, BF will get changed then too, thouroghly cleaned the underneath and swapped the CSL’s for the 224’s off the MR so I can clean them up properly

 

[LittleZ4]

Made a custom heat shield for my ram air filter. No one seems to make them for the 2.0

Good effort, I need to make one for mine at some point soon!! That looks really good.

 

[firebobby]

Made a custom heat shield for my ram air filter. No one seems to make them for the 2.0

Quite liked the Blue Peter effort to start with :wink:
Reminds me of my mate, the 1st of our school gang to get a car. It was a MK1 Escort and he made a boom box for the rear parcel shelf out of a cardboard box
It sort of worked and forward thinking for the late 70's

 

[synthedup]

Just fitted power flex front anti roll bar D bushes. Test drive time

 

[agrimes1989]

First of my Pole positions retrimmed in Bridge of Weir Nappa leather with Highland Granite tartan centres and blue stitching / badges.

 

[MrPT]

First of my Pole positions retrimmed in Bridge of Weir Nappa leather with Highland Granite tartan centres and blue stitching / badges.FED53A63-602F-4C3E-A862-9EAB928BE1BF.jpeg

Beautiful. Who did the re-trim?

 

[Darren Slone]

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First of my Pole positions retrimmed in Bridge of Weir Nappa leather with Highland Granite tartan centres and blue stitching / badges.FED53A63-602F-4C3E-A862-9EAB928BE1BF.jpeg

They look the business 8)

 

[cmaza]

Hey bud

Cheers for the video. Did you not remove the leather trim on the handbrake as he did then?

Did you follow the rest of the steps ie loosen the brake shoes completely and then tighten up until you cannot rotate the wheels with your hands?

I didn't have a clue either until I watched a great YouTube video. It was around 10 minutes long, but it explains in detail exactly how to adjust your handbrake on a BMW.

Wish I had done it sooner, as last year my Z4 rolled back into bushes on my driveway, causing great embarrassment to me :lol:

The adjuster on the passenger side is at the 2 o'clock position (or pretty close to it). The drivers side one is in the 10 o'clock position.

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Hey buddy

Got a link to the video?

Cheers
Cmaza

https://youtu.be/VI5r6I3_U_k



It's not Z4 specific, but it's exactly the same set up, apart from not needing to adjust anything from inside the car.

 

[ben g]

Hey bud

Cheers for the video. Did you not remove the leather trim on the handbrake as he did then?

Did you follow the rest of the steps ie loosen the brake shoes completely and then tighten up until you cannot rotate the wheels with your hands?

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Hey buddy

Got a link to the video?

Cheers
Cmaza

https://youtu.be/VI5r6I3_U_k



It's not Z4 specific, but it's exactly the same set up, apart from not needing to adjust anything from inside the car.

You don't need to remove the leather gaiter because it's all done by the adjuster in the rear drums.

Yes, all the other steps are correct. It's simple enough to do, just a bit of trial and error involved until you're happy with your handbrake

 

[noiseboy72]

Today I have been mostly fixing the wipers.

Stripped down, degreased contacts, lubricated all joints and reassembled.

Gave the engine bay a clean down as well

So bloody windy it was blowing the bonnet down on me!

 

[Petahgreen]

Took the gear gator out and surround to finally clean it properly, found two pounds which must have been kicking around in the car since I bought it in the summer. Shame I can’t spend them

 

[Haggisman]

Aluminium and carbon stubby aerial fitted, reception as per whippy. Probably the easiest thing I’ll do to this car !!

 

[javis20]

Helped my son replace his valve cover gasket on his E85. Super easy job.

 

[Phoenixboy]

Fixed the windscreen washers that were giving a puny dribble at best.
Filter dirty, all good now.
Rinsed off the salty road grime.
Bit of leather feed on the bolster.