What have you done to your car today?
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Jollygiant said:Did this today....
and the final result is....
The new one is on the left. and someone in the cars past (I picked it up two weeks ago) had tried to spray the crazed paint with just a rattle can (the N/S/R is the same).
I did try to polish it out but it wasn't having any of it.
So I went on eBay and found someone locally selling the exact ones I need in the same colour on a BIN, so I put in a cheeky offer and it turns out the seller is on here (Usel) and he saw me on here and accepted my cheeky offer. So I went and them up at the weekend and today was the first chance I got to start fitting them.
It was all fairly straight forward but why the f**k did they put the screw's inside the wing? I changed a wing on my old 5 Series and they were all on the outside!
Once I've fitted the other one I will be offering them to anyone on here who wants the pair for £80. Visually they are bit rubbish but if you have damaged ones and want some cheap ones to paint they'll be fine.
That worked out well! Looks great...certainly easier and more cost effective than paint.
Been nursing a bad arm and neck for some time, but recently picked this up (well, the kind chap delivered it) as it was cheap and had some bonnet damage. I therefore decided to gently ease myself back in to playing about with cars and very, very slowly, over the last couple of days, messed about with this 3.0 manual...
Oil and filter change, stubby aerial installed, damaged bonnet removed and second hand one fitted, new lower arms + bushes and drop links, cleaned the headlights, removed the foam from the sound resonator pipe and my pièce de résistance.....fixing what turned out to be a broken xenon headlamp levelling arm (Thanks to the Z4 FB group for letting me know what it did!) with some 1970s Meccano! You can see the yellow arm I made in the pics below, although that was taken before I bolted it in.
A few more jobs I want to do, but even with numerous breaks, I ached, a lot, so that will do for now.
Oil and filter change, stubby aerial installed, damaged bonnet removed and second hand one fitted, new lower arms + bushes and drop links, cleaned the headlights, removed the foam from the sound resonator pipe and my pièce de résistance.....fixing what turned out to be a broken xenon headlamp levelling arm (Thanks to the Z4 FB group for letting me know what it did!) with some 1970s Meccano! You can see the yellow arm I made in the pics below, although that was taken before I bolted it in.
A few more jobs I want to do, but even with numerous breaks, I ached, a lot, so that will do for now.
Not me personally, but I fitted a 3.64 diff (from a 3.0si auto) to my 3.0i. The difference is like night and day. The car feels so much more eager and willing to rev now than it did with the ridiculous emissions/economy 3.07 diff fitted at the factory. I reckon adding a lightened flywheel (on my list when the clutch eventually gives up) would turn this thing into the car it was always meant to be. A couple of polybushes in the mounts for good measure, and the on/off acceleration transition has tightened right up too. Win.
And because this thread is about photos, this is what was on my mechanic's lift when I dropped the Z4 off.
And because this thread is about photos, this is what was on my mechanic's lift when I dropped the Z4 off.
Drove it (yesterday 
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Finland
Took it to Caffeine & Machine for a coffee (us, not the car)
My steering has been clicking annoyingly on every wheel turn. It is the same click you get when the indicator self-cancels after a turn, but it was happens without the indicator being set.
I had previously stripped back to the clock spring and not found the issue, but on further investigation tracked it down to the indicator switch itself. There is a spring loaded catch which interfaces with the clock spring and this wasn’t “set” properly. Problem solved by swapping in a replacement indicator stalk which was a 2-minute job, rather than trying to fix the old stalk which may have taken all day
I had previously stripped back to the clock spring and not found the issue, but on further investigation tracked it down to the indicator switch itself. There is a spring loaded catch which interfaces with the clock spring and this wasn’t “set” properly. Problem solved by swapping in a replacement indicator stalk which was a 2-minute job, rather than trying to fix the old stalk which may have taken all day
A good ‘turn’ indeed :wink:
Replaced the old yellow side lights with cool white bulbs. One side was easy to get housing on, the other side was a bit of a nightmare. Got there in end. Head lamps restored also but not happy with results. I was using a cheap turtle wax kit with only two levels of sanding. I think I’ll get the car detailed in autumn or spring next year so will get a professional to do it.
Tried to install new third brake light but didn’t have a long enough bolt attachment so will need to get this asap. Tomorrow I’m goin to dry and clean the canvas roof and give the bodywork a good scrub.
Tried to install new third brake light but didn’t have a long enough bolt attachment so will need to get this asap. Tomorrow I’m goin to dry and clean the canvas roof and give the bodywork a good scrub.
Week 3 of Zed ownership.....
You've seen the wing post from the other day?
Well now the advisory of the ball joint on this years MOT became the clonking/ knocking after 600 miles of ownership.
So after some discussion with Enuff Zed it was off to Ebay and purchased a pair of Febi Bilstein's. As one had gone the other wouldn't be far behind.
The side where it was knackered took me 45 mins to swap over (including jacking the car up and removing the covers) and the drivers side where it was ok took 3 1/2 hours, two trips to Wilco to buy tools that might fit in gap between the inner ball joint nut and the steering rack and 1 trip to a friendly garage to borrow another ball joint splitter!
But eventually it was done.
And now the right side speedo sensor is feeling left out and want to replaced. I took it out and cleaned all the crap off it but it still didn't like me. Anther trip to ebay has got another one for a £10.
You've seen the wing post from the other day?
Well now the advisory of the ball joint on this years MOT became the clonking/ knocking after 600 miles of ownership.
So after some discussion with Enuff Zed it was off to Ebay and purchased a pair of Febi Bilstein's. As one had gone the other wouldn't be far behind.
The side where it was knackered took me 45 mins to swap over (including jacking the car up and removing the covers) and the drivers side where it was ok took 3 1/2 hours, two trips to Wilco to buy tools that might fit in gap between the inner ball joint nut and the steering rack and 1 trip to a friendly garage to borrow another ball joint splitter!
But eventually it was done.
And now the right side speedo sensor is feeling left out and want to replaced. I took it out and cleaned all the crap off it but it still didn't like me. Anther trip to ebay has got another one for a £10.