What have you done to your car today?
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Smartbear said:Jembo said:The easiest ceramic coat to put on bar none - zero photoshop enhancement
You’re not meant to ceramic coat your tyres!
Rob
Don’t worry Rob, I was very careful to only ceramic coat the brake discs & pad surface
Jembo said:Barty said:
Minor edit… as there’s no way you got all the screw covers off without at least breaking one of them
Ha- actually the old ones were beige (and partly missing), so I’ll need to source some regardless. Anyone that can print them for me?
Barty said:Jembo said:Barty said:
Minor edit… as there’s no way you got all the screw covers off without at least breaking one of them
Ha- actually the old ones were beige (and partly missing), so I’ll need to source some regardless. Anyone that can print them for me?
https://z4-forum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=125150
Decided my back was healed enough to start the suspension refresh on Project Freeleeta.
This car has done 112k and is 19 years old, so I was not expecting to find this:
Undisturbed, virgin insulation. As this has to be cut back to access the top mount I was very surprised to see it.
Sure enough, out came original shocks and top mounts stamped '03'.
This would explain why the traction light did it's disco thing over bumpy roads. :roll:
I was also encouraged to find the original shocks were the same as the replacement ones I had ready to go on.
So that's answered the 'what did they have originally' question.
This car has done 112k and is 19 years old, so I was not expecting to find this:
Undisturbed, virgin insulation. As this has to be cut back to access the top mount I was very surprised to see it.
Sure enough, out came original shocks and top mounts stamped '03'.
This would explain why the traction light did it's disco thing over bumpy roads. :roll:
I was also encouraged to find the original shocks were the same as the replacement ones I had ready to go on.
So that's answered the 'what did they have originally' question.
Today I (re)learned a valuable lesson: assumptions are the mother of all f- well you know the drill. I’d been so focused on the dangling connectors under the column that I’d never even checked the signal cable. What’s more: they’d beautifully routed it along the original cabling, even securing it neatly at regular intervals along the way. All the way through the cable and bulkhead. So the hard part was done and dusted! Same for the power cables to the LCM. All that was left to do was splice and connect, and add the blue cable to pin 39 on the DME…
So that’s what I did. Took it out for a spin, lo and behold: works an absolute treat! With that done, I could finally install the last bit of trim:
So I’m now off for a lovely cruise (ha!), a juicy steak and I’ll save some epic facepalms for later :lol:
Got round to sorting the play in the steering column. There was a bit of play if you pulled/tugged on the steering wheel, which turned out to be some loose bolts in the column assembly. Have written up a guide https://z4-forum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=135384.
Steering wheel is completely tight now.
Steering wheel is completely tight now.
Devon
