What have you done to your car today?

[MikeyH]

Wife and I went to Teignmouth this afternoon for our drive and coffee break, a guy walked past with a German Shepherd, he said "what a nice car, always liked them". I said "what a nice dog, always liked them". Then we had a long chat about German cars and German dogs

the best dogs in the world!

 

[MikeyH]

Wife and I went to Teignmouth this afternoon for our drive and coffee break, a guy walked past with a German Shepherd, he said "what a nice car, always liked them". I said "what a nice dog, always liked them". Then we had a long chat about German cars and German dogs

love this, a great story… we have a Welsh dog with a German name, who enjoys riding in his German cars.

 

[3gGT01]

My car club puts on a car show annually for veteran's day as a fundraiser for veterans and other related automotive programs. I took my Z4 M to the Friday night cruise in downtown. Met a guy who's property backs up to mine and he has an E30 and checked out my gearshift knob and said you need to get a weighted ZHP shifter knob. My question is has anyone been buying the ones from China that are much cheaper? Quality, etc. I want a illuminated one like the original one.

 

[3gGT01]

Our local car show. We had 401 cars, which we limit to 400 cars in my small little town where Elon Musk has his Boring company, SpaceX and also the Tesla plant near the airport. I was on the parking team so only took a couple of pictures.

 

[Fred Smith]

Is 33 a Marcos GT?

 

[j3nks79]

My car club puts on a car show annually for veteran's day as a fundraiser for veterans and other related automotive programs. I took my Z4 M to the Friday night cruise in downtown. Met a guy who's property backs up to mine and he has an E30 and checked out my gearshift knob and said you need to get a weighted ZHP shifter knob. My question is has anyone been buying the ones from China that are much cheaper? Quality, etc. I want a illuminated one like the original one.

Don’t do it. The fake leather peels off after a month

 

[3gGT01]

I did not talk to the owner, but I would guess it is a Factory Five. :lol:

 

[3gGT01]

My car club puts on a car show annually for veteran's day as a fundraiser for veterans and other related automotive programs. I took my Z4 M to the Friday night cruise in downtown. Met a guy who's property backs up to mine and he has an E30 and checked out my gearshift knob and said you need to get a weighted ZHP shifter knob. My question is has anyone been buying the ones from China that are much cheaper? Quality, etc. I want a illuminated one like the original one.

Don’t do it. The fake leather peels off after a month

Good too know, thanks!

 

[RedSox]

[ref]MikeyH[/ref], "Finally put my big boy pants on and sorted out the sticky steering issue that had been getting worse. Someone else had already moved it 5mm and done the grease nipple trick. I moved it another 5mm, went out for a drive up to 70 mph and no floating problems just much lighter and more feel in a straight line. What a relief, been dreading this job but thanks to all the experts on here it was a piece of cake to do
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Out of interest, was this an intermittent problem? I suspect I have a similar issue, but only seems to be present in the warm - which is typically the only time when I would use it!!

 

[MikeyH]

Yes when it’s warm, over around 20c or in the winter when the wife puts the heating on full blast. Been like it since I owned the car really but this year very bad at around 15c. Been meaning to do it but didn’t have the confidence. However really easy to do if you follow what enuff_zed says and use the ratchet spanner. The worse part is the neck ache afterwards but lucky I’m quite small. Someone else had been there before me and had done the grease nipple thing, then someone else had tapped the ring around 5 mm. so it’s now 10 mm. Much nicer to drive now. You need someone to hold a torch though as there is a black cable that you can’t see in the dark and stops the spanner going over the far bolt. I rang around 2 places including a German garage and the other a bmw indy and neither had heard off sticky steering, so I had no choice but to get on with it

 

[RedSox]

Yes when it’s warm, over around 20c or in the winter when the wife puts the heating on full blast. Been like it since I owned the car really but this year very bad at around 15c. Been meaning to do it but didn’t have the confidence. However really easy to do if you follow what enuff_zed says and use the ratchet spanner. The worse part is the neck ache afterwards but lucky I’m quite small. Someone else had been there before me and had done the grease nipple thing, then someone else had tapped the ring around 5 mm. so it’s now 10 mm. Much nicer to drive now. You need someone to hold a torch though as there is a black cable that you can’t see in the dark and stops the spanner going over the far bolt.

Sounds like fun! Thanks for the response. I'll look enuff_zed's post out to see what's involved. Cheers.

 

[MikeyH]

It really is not that difficult

 

[1536Z4]

Our local car show.

Plenty of Corvettes . Looks like a nice show

 

[3gGT01]

Our local car show.

Plenty of Corvettes . Looks like a nice show

Lots of groups come in together that are members in a specific club (Oldsmobile, Mustang, etc) and want to park together. Those few pics are not very representative of the variety of cars we have.

 

[1536Z4]

Those few pics are not very representative of the variety of cars we have

Understood

 

[Mr Tidy]

My car club puts on a car show annually for veteran's day as a fundraiser for veterans and other related automotive programs. I took my Z4 M to the Friday night cruise in downtown. Met a guy who's property backs up to mine and he has an E30 and checked out my gearshift knob and said you need to get a weighted ZHP shifter knob. My question is has anyone been buying the ones from China that are much cheaper? Quality, etc. I want a illuminated one like the original one.

As someone already said the Chinese ones are hopeless - usually aren't weighted, which is the whole point of swapping. :roll:

I've currently got a non-illuminated ZHP in my car, but I recently bought an illuminated ZHP from an F10 M5.

It cost £150 and needs some fettling to fit, which is why I haven't fitted it yet!

Here's a How To:- https://z4-forum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=66074

 

[3gGT01]

viewtopic.php?t=66074

Mr Tidy, this information is much appreciated! I kept looking and was not having any luck finding an illuminated Z4 M ZHP shifter by BMW.
I reviewed the F10 M5 boot/shifter install, looks good & doable to me. So now I need to see if there are any decent prices on the F10 M5 ZHP shifter.

On another note, I requested a quote from royalsteeringwheels.com to get my steering wheel redone. I'm not sure what most members are doing on the plastic portions on the steering wheel. Are folks just repainting them?

 

[3gGT01]

Those few pics are not very representative of the variety of cars we have

Understood

I should be able to get some nice pics from the other club members and share any special ones. :wink:

 

[3002 tii]

viewtopic.php?t=66074

Mr Tidy, this information is much appreciated! I kept looking and was not having any luck finding an illuminated Z4 M ZHP shifter by BMW.
I reviewed the F10 M5 boot/shifter install, looks good & doable to me. So now I need to see if there are any decent prices on the F10 M5 ZHP shifter.

On another note, I requested a quote from royalsteeringwheels.com to get my steering wheel redone. I'm not sure what most members are doing on the plastic portions on the steering wheel. Are folks just repainting them?

I did the illuminated m5 knob. Very straightforward, just need to remove boot from the plastic frame.

Re wheel, chances are when you remove the plastic trim it will get damaged so you need to be really careful when separating them or have a backup set. I personally wanted to go with something different so I went with the BMW individual gray trim pieces.

 

[1536Z4]

pics from the other club members and share any special ones.

Good to see what`s going on in other countries