So as most of you know, after the panzer left me a week or so ago, I picked up a Z4M Roadster. Few quick details;
56 plate
Interlagos blue
54k miles
Cruise
Bluetooth
Black fully electric and heated seats
BiXenon
Completely standard
The initial pick up of the car wasn't quite as happy as I'd have liked. The guy was a prick basically and got agitated when I took my time going around the car with a fine toothed comb... Dumb suggestions of us getting a taxi back to station, etc. Idiot. Anyway, after being happy with the car, we drove it back to London in the sunset, AWAKs low fly over and hood down over tower bridge! Fab journey with dad driving most of the way to give him a good run out, as he'd travelled so far to join me!
It then did a couple of basic journeys around London (sub 20 mins) before having Pirelli winter tyres fitted on Saturday morning and a four hour journey N->S for Xmas.
First impressions? It's a totally different car to the Panzer. Different scale altogether. With four hours to get used to it, initial bullet points (as they affect me personally)
- it's a very compliant ride. The s3 was under damped and over sprung, so wallowed in the corners yet banged over bumps. This doesn't. Although you do feel quite a bit of the surface so can feel grabby/jumpy at 9Xmph. The B road route back from
The M6 to Alderley was like nothing is experienced before and overtaking slow movers on the small bits of straight a roads was an absolute breeze.
- the seats are uber comfortable, having front and rear height adjustment with helps with pedal position etc everything is also perfectly within reach, from the stalks and cruise to radio/hvac etc.
- the handling is just divine. It inspires confidence even with my nervousness of rwd over my "foot down anywhere" Quattro. The steering feels infinitely more connected and there is no knock that I chased for years. The winter tyres appear to be fine but no real world use of them yet as it's been so mild.
- the engine and exhaust notes are incredible and very difficult to not play with constantly... And the power delivery is so smooth, coming from nothing nothing nothing BOOST. It's also quite a weird sensation when you put your foot down. You get the mechanical S54 engine note, the needles move but you've no idea you're doing 100+ until other cars disappear and approach particularly quickly. Something I'll need to keep an eye on to preserve my licence!
- the brakes appear to be very efficient so far but are known to cook easily, albeit on track
- there is no space in the boot. @Rob 's is better as the ///M relocates the batter and fuse box to the boot...!
- there is no space anywhere inside for wallets/sunglasses etc without having to reach over to the glove box
A few pics from tonight, dirty.
A few things have been bought. There was a Gruppe buy on intakes (see what I did there?) so felt it was worth spending the money now while they're cheap...er!
///M mods are certainly not cheap, but at the price in the group buy it was simple maths. I can sell it for more if I dislike it.
The paint needs a decent sort out detailing wise, so all bits ordered and arrived to replenish the supplies, so I'll get into that over the coming days.
A few interior minor mods that came as part of a £££ upgraded storage pack. Useful for phone cradles - so a few £ later from BMW on eBay;
30 mins to fit including taking photos. May seem basic but it just makes life easier.
The other minor bits are a bit of coding in options;
- three flash turn signal
- auto lock on drive off
- visual arm (disarm is already highlighted)
- home coming lights 40secs
And work out why my iPhone 6 doesn't pair with the Bluetooth but other phones do. Seems to be a known issue with ios8.
Again, other than that, it'll be kept clean and standard. Hoping to just enjoy it and see how prices go over the coming 2-3 years before another house and perhaps a shiny something for the gf need to be thought about!
Will update with better pics once detailed!
Cheers all.
56 plate
Interlagos blue
54k miles
Cruise
Bluetooth
Black fully electric and heated seats
BiXenon
Completely standard
The initial pick up of the car wasn't quite as happy as I'd have liked. The guy was a prick basically and got agitated when I took my time going around the car with a fine toothed comb... Dumb suggestions of us getting a taxi back to station, etc. Idiot. Anyway, after being happy with the car, we drove it back to London in the sunset, AWAKs low fly over and hood down over tower bridge! Fab journey with dad driving most of the way to give him a good run out, as he'd travelled so far to join me!
It then did a couple of basic journeys around London (sub 20 mins) before having Pirelli winter tyres fitted on Saturday morning and a four hour journey N->S for Xmas.
First impressions? It's a totally different car to the Panzer. Different scale altogether. With four hours to get used to it, initial bullet points (as they affect me personally)
- it's a very compliant ride. The s3 was under damped and over sprung, so wallowed in the corners yet banged over bumps. This doesn't. Although you do feel quite a bit of the surface so can feel grabby/jumpy at 9Xmph. The B road route back from
The M6 to Alderley was like nothing is experienced before and overtaking slow movers on the small bits of straight a roads was an absolute breeze.
- the seats are uber comfortable, having front and rear height adjustment with helps with pedal position etc everything is also perfectly within reach, from the stalks and cruise to radio/hvac etc.
- the handling is just divine. It inspires confidence even with my nervousness of rwd over my "foot down anywhere" Quattro. The steering feels infinitely more connected and there is no knock that I chased for years. The winter tyres appear to be fine but no real world use of them yet as it's been so mild.
- the engine and exhaust notes are incredible and very difficult to not play with constantly... And the power delivery is so smooth, coming from nothing nothing nothing BOOST. It's also quite a weird sensation when you put your foot down. You get the mechanical S54 engine note, the needles move but you've no idea you're doing 100+ until other cars disappear and approach particularly quickly. Something I'll need to keep an eye on to preserve my licence!
- the brakes appear to be very efficient so far but are known to cook easily, albeit on track
- there is no space in the boot. @Rob 's is better as the ///M relocates the batter and fuse box to the boot...!
- there is no space anywhere inside for wallets/sunglasses etc without having to reach over to the glove box
A few pics from tonight, dirty.
A few things have been bought. There was a Gruppe buy on intakes (see what I did there?) so felt it was worth spending the money now while they're cheap...er!
///M mods are certainly not cheap, but at the price in the group buy it was simple maths. I can sell it for more if I dislike it.
The paint needs a decent sort out detailing wise, so all bits ordered and arrived to replenish the supplies, so I'll get into that over the coming days.
A few interior minor mods that came as part of a £££ upgraded storage pack. Useful for phone cradles - so a few £ later from BMW on eBay;
30 mins to fit including taking photos. May seem basic but it just makes life easier.
The other minor bits are a bit of coding in options;
- three flash turn signal
- auto lock on drive off
- visual arm (disarm is already highlighted)
- home coming lights 40secs
And work out why my iPhone 6 doesn't pair with the Bluetooth but other phones do. Seems to be a known issue with ios8.
Again, other than that, it'll be kept clean and standard. Hoping to just enjoy it and see how prices go over the coming 2-3 years before another house and perhaps a shiny something for the gf need to be thought about!
Will update with better pics once detailed!
Cheers all.
champagne region in April with a friends Brera. Three of us so enough room for what we pick up!
