What have you done to your car today?
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More progress this week.
Cut, polish and now a coat of R222 wax. The R222 will not offer much (if any by the looks of it) long term protection, I reckon it'd need applying weekly if you we're daily driving, but *wow* what a shine. Certainly a step up from Double Speed in that area.
Hope to finish the project over the weekend.
Cut, polish and now a coat of R222 wax. The R222 will not offer much (if any by the looks of it) long term protection, I reckon it'd need applying weekly if you we're daily driving, but *wow* what a shine. Certainly a step up from Double Speed in that area.
Hope to finish the project over the weekend.
johnsi02 said:
Many thanks for your reply! I was more concerned about not being able to lift the car high enough to remove the sub-frame out of the way.
After raising the car a few mm , as the Eibachs were a little too low for me and replacing the front wishbone rear mounts, took it back to see Nick at the Alignment Centre in Southampton to just finish off , where he was the last time, albeit 6 months ago !!
Rear was still perfectly good, but the front needed a smidge of adjustments. Car was fab on the homeward journey, which he gave me an A road route than the M way.
Rear was still perfectly good, but the front needed a smidge of adjustments. Car was fab on the homeward journey, which he gave me an A road route than the M way.
Fitted my new Royals mfsw today. Really happy with it & looking forward to taking a drive out to see how it feels. However I managed to screw up the installation 
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andystone said:
It wasn't meant to be a negative comment mate, it was me saying nice one for getting off the run flats and getting matched tyres all round, the difference on how much more planted these cars feel with matched tyres front and rear can't be underestimated.
People saying their BMW feels a bit floaty at faster motorway speeds, or that it doesn't feel as planted as they think it should, or the traction light comes on more than they expect (should be really difficult to get it to flash on these cars) has come up time and time again across the various BMW forums, and when you say "Different tyres front and rear." they never believe you.
Many change bushes, dampers, have a geo set up and after nothing changes they get the tyres matched up and are gobsmacked at the difference.
It was not a negative comment, it was to say "Nice one".
Fitted a full set a Bilstein B4 shocks to the car and WOW what an incredible difference. The previous shocks had done 130k on them and all 4 of them failed to come back when depressed.
The difference is night and day, so much more compliment over bumps the ride is now superb, I also find myself trying to find more roundabouts as the stability and turn in is also miles better.
Currently running on sport suspension with the 15mm drop. Thought about going Eibachs but with my huge 19 inch wheels (235 front, 275 rear) I wouldn't want to risk any rubbing.
Now just need to get a full alignment done, how long would people recommend letting the shocks settle before getting an alignment on the car? Also would anyone recommend the settings that you are using for your setup?
The difference is night and day, so much more compliment over bumps the ride is now superb, I also find myself trying to find more roundabouts as the stability and turn in is also miles better.
Currently running on sport suspension with the 15mm drop. Thought about going Eibachs but with my huge 19 inch wheels (235 front, 275 rear) I wouldn't want to risk any rubbing.
Now just need to get a full alignment done, how long would people recommend letting the shocks settle before getting an alignment on the car? Also would anyone recommend the settings that you are using for your setup?
Ming said:Have got a set of Vredestein Ultrac Vorti's in the garage waiting to go on the Zed. Hopefully I'll have time tomorrow to get them over to the fitters then take the car in Monday for fitment. Looking forward to being wowed
Remember putting the Vortis on mine a few weeks after buying, it came with some chinese ditch finders, the difference was unbelievable, truly felt like a different motor
So after tearing myself apart with what colour to wrap my interior trim, I finally settled on a dark titanium (almost steel colour). It's the one on the left, and in the car it looks the most classy and in keeping with the brushed look. The one on the right is 3M brushed titanium. I didn't want to go with black carbon fibre and the grey was a little bit 'meh'. To me anyway. In the background is a forged carbon wrap which I tried on the car, but wasn't feeling the love with this one. So off we go. Now today I have primered the replacement console trim and will start filling all the nicks and scratches (also cut out the sport hole) before it gets wrapped.
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Looking forward to seeing the end result. A very thorough approach filling and priming the pieces before wrapping.
I have a spare set of trim here waiting to be wrapped sometime, but I am unsure what finish to go for yet. I hadn’t considered filling any dents and scratches, but I guess as with most things good prep is key for a high standard finish.
Indeed it is. I learned my lesson when I wrapped my door handle trim. Every little mark showed through. So that ended up coming off, and a bit of a sand with wet and dry cleared it up.ErrErrminator said:
But... it would depend on the thickness and style of the wrap itself. That forged carbon wrap would be totally forgiving and I dare say you would not read anything through it, but conversely, if you wanted to put on, say, a 4D carbon or high gloss wrap, then I'd think everything would come through.