Rob
ClioSport Moderator
Ok, so this is going to be somewhere for everything z4 related, no more threads. Honest.
As you all know I bought the car a fair while back from Laura off of here. Despite having never been to her house, I'm fairly sure Laura lives somewhere quite country side like, so upon picking the car up it was in very good condition, just a little grubby. A whole lot of hours cleaning the car with TheEvilGiraffe off of here and we had one nice looking zed:
I couldn't have been much happier but then after just one week it took a bit of a knock and ended up in the body shop courtesy of a 17 year old ginger kid.
Thanks for that ginge.
Anyway, after a long time in the body shop, and exactly 10 hours before I was due to go away on holiday to the lakes, the car was ready for collection. The crash had done me a few favours:
Upon picking the car up from Laura, the passenger door didn't open from the inside, which it turned out was quite difficult to fix. As you can see, the car needed a new door, so this was sorted at the same time.
I actually went to pick up the car two days before I went on holiday, but as I drove away, the passenger side window regulator failed, because the car had been in their care, I had a new one fitted in 24hrs and all was well.
The body shop also resprayed the petrol cap for me as it was chipped. Result.
Anyway, the car came back looking great, and off I went to the lakes where the car performed brilliantly:
So yeah, up until now the car was just standard, yesterday I made my first "mod", which is why I'm writing this.
The old steering wheel was showing signs of mileage and age (the leather was worn quite heavily along the top), and the resprayed plastics were chipped badly.
The z4 forum is a really really helpful and friendly place, so I managed to source a wheel that had only been fitted to a car for a year, the condition is brilliant and the price was frankly amazing.
So from this:
To this:
Much better.
So, as for what's coming up, there's a fair few things....
The piece surround the gear console is fairly chipped/scratched, which is a shame, so I've got a spare trim set in bad conditon and all of these parts are to be covered in real carbon.. I may keep or sell on depending upon how it looks.
Next up will be a new gear knob, as that's pretty ruined, but I'm not sure whether to go for the zhp illuminated or standard. The difference is about £30.
This weekend I hope to paint the inbuilt "spacer" as it's gone slightly rusty and with wheels as "see through" as the 108's you can see it very badly, hammerite silver to the rescue I guess.
Then I'll be upgrading the wheels, again, something I'm unsure on. I'm swaying towards going for the CSL's, you're only young once right? I'll be keeping my 108's so they can be refurbed at any time.
So I'll either be rocking these minty fresh standard wheels:
Or these:
So yeah, that's as far as I am so far.. there's a few other things on my list:
Full service
New mats
Roof clean and seal
I'll probably be fairly active with this car over the summer, so hopefully I'll update this a fair bit.
As you all know I bought the car a fair while back from Laura off of here. Despite having never been to her house, I'm fairly sure Laura lives somewhere quite country side like, so upon picking the car up it was in very good condition, just a little grubby. A whole lot of hours cleaning the car with TheEvilGiraffe off of here and we had one nice looking zed:
I couldn't have been much happier but then after just one week it took a bit of a knock and ended up in the body shop courtesy of a 17 year old ginger kid.
Thanks for that ginge.
Anyway, after a long time in the body shop, and exactly 10 hours before I was due to go away on holiday to the lakes, the car was ready for collection. The crash had done me a few favours:
Upon picking the car up from Laura, the passenger door didn't open from the inside, which it turned out was quite difficult to fix. As you can see, the car needed a new door, so this was sorted at the same time.
I actually went to pick up the car two days before I went on holiday, but as I drove away, the passenger side window regulator failed, because the car had been in their care, I had a new one fitted in 24hrs and all was well.
The body shop also resprayed the petrol cap for me as it was chipped. Result.
Anyway, the car came back looking great, and off I went to the lakes where the car performed brilliantly:
So yeah, up until now the car was just standard, yesterday I made my first "mod", which is why I'm writing this.
The old steering wheel was showing signs of mileage and age (the leather was worn quite heavily along the top), and the resprayed plastics were chipped badly.
The z4 forum is a really really helpful and friendly place, so I managed to source a wheel that had only been fitted to a car for a year, the condition is brilliant and the price was frankly amazing.
So from this:
To this:
Much better.
So, as for what's coming up, there's a fair few things....
The piece surround the gear console is fairly chipped/scratched, which is a shame, so I've got a spare trim set in bad conditon and all of these parts are to be covered in real carbon.. I may keep or sell on depending upon how it looks.
Next up will be a new gear knob, as that's pretty ruined, but I'm not sure whether to go for the zhp illuminated or standard. The difference is about £30.
This weekend I hope to paint the inbuilt "spacer" as it's gone slightly rusty and with wheels as "see through" as the 108's you can see it very badly, hammerite silver to the rescue I guess.
Then I'll be upgrading the wheels, again, something I'm unsure on. I'm swaying towards going for the CSL's, you're only young once right? I'll be keeping my 108's so they can be refurbed at any time.
So I'll either be rocking these minty fresh standard wheels:
Or these:
So yeah, that's as far as I am so far.. there's a few other things on my list:
Full service
New mats
Roof clean and seal
I'll probably be fairly active with this car over the summer, so hopefully I'll update this a fair bit.
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