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- Tue 08 Jan, 2019 18:24
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: Thank you to the elegant lady...
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5403
Thank you to the elegant lady...
...who gave me her unexpired car park ticket in the rear car park at Amersham Hospital this afternoon (8 Jan 2019). She drove a silver Z3 Roadster and was well dressed, nicely spoken, and had a lovely smile. As it happened the 40 minutes was more than enough.
- Sun 06 Jan, 2019 18:56
- Forum: Spotted!
- Topic: Black Z3M Coupé at the Sunday Scramble, Bicester
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6106
- Tue 01 Jan, 2019 19:04
- Forum: Spotted!
- Topic: Silver Z3 Roadster M25 a/clockwise 1 Jan 2019 10:30am approx
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5059
Silver Z3 Roadster M25 a/clockwise 1 Jan 2019 10:30am approx
Pre-facelift (?) broad-backside, red third brake light, Arctic Silver with a personal plate and one single large oval exhaust - probably after market as it was audible at moderate speed - anti clockwise near A3 exit at about 10:30hrs today New Years Day. Mine was the Titanium Silver 2.2 Sport 52 pla...
- Sun 02 Dec, 2018 12:32
- Forum: Stock exchange
- Topic: M52TU THROTTLE BODY
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3240
Re: M52TU THROTTLE BODY
I have a throttle body from a very late 2.2i Sport. It sticks closed but should be repairable if necessary. Don't know whether it's the precise type you need but I'm sure it's uneconomical to send it to South Africa.
- Sat 24 Nov, 2018 07:48
- Forum: Z3 roadster
- Topic: Battery Life
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3507
Re: Battery Life
Mike you may be right about ambient temperatures. My Westfield has been garaged all of its life. For the first nine years with me it was in a detached brick garage of 1938 vintage (i.e. draughty), and for the past six in a 1970s integral one which is never below about 7ºC. The battery is disconnecte...
- Fri 23 Nov, 2018 15:04
- Forum: Z3 roadster
- Topic: Battery Life
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3507
Re: Battery Life
I have just changed mine after nine years of ownership. No idea how long before I bought the car the first change occurred but it wasn't the OEM as it had the name of an English town written on it! The car was seven years old when I bought it.
- Thu 15 Nov, 2018 07:23
- Forum: Z3 roadster
- Topic: Central locking with key.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8694
Re: Central locking with key.
Forgive my 'left field' contribution but are you sure that the LOCK button on the key is working? I have a remote key and a torch key so I couldn't test it with another key - maybe you can.
- Mon 08 Oct, 2018 11:36
- Forum: Spotted!
- Topic: Red, bright red, LHD Tesco Princes Risborough
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5281
Red, bright red, LHD Tesco Princes Risborough
As it says above, a scarlet Z3 left hand drive in Princes Risborough Tesco car park this morning. Nice looking car.
- Wed 03 Oct, 2018 08:38
- Forum: The Beauty Parlour
- Topic: Best windscreen washer fluid
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4850
Re: Best windscreen washer fluid
I use the cheapest concentrate available (not 'ready-to-use') but always dilute it with demineralised water. I live in an area where tap water is hard and when it dries it leaves traces of hardness salts. You don't want that on your mohair! Because of the hard water, all water used in the kettle com...
- Fri 21 Sep, 2018 20:40
- Forum: Z3 roadster
- Topic: Pool of water behind fuel flap
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4044
Re: Pool of water behind fuel flap
Wot 'e said ^
Poke it out with a piece of stiff wire
Poke it out with a piece of stiff wire
- Sat 15 Sep, 2018 15:38
- Forum: Z3 roadster
- Topic: Floor mat tethers
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2230
Re: Floor mat tethers
Mine are large discs apparently stuck (or not in my case) to the underside of the mat. Drive me nuts!
- Mon 10 Sep, 2018 15:45
- Forum: Z3 roadster
- Topic: MoT today...
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2590
MoT today...
The first of my cars to be tested since the rules changed in May.
Passed with no advisories! Hat duly launched skywards!
Passed with no advisories! Hat duly launched skywards!
- Wed 08 Aug, 2018 14:16
- Forum: Z3 roadster
- Topic: What makes a screen wash pump fail?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3842
Re: What makes a screen wash pump fail?
Seized motor due to corrosion. Once removed it was possible to make it run after a bit of tweaking, but it chattered furiously with dry bearings. It now lies in the bin.
- Sun 29 Jul, 2018 13:32
- Forum: Z3 roadster
- Topic: What makes a screen wash pump fail?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3842
Re: What makes a screen wash pump fail?
You do not give us the full story - did the motor fail, or did it run but not pump anything? Older washer pumps (up to the early 2000's or so) have a habit of the impeller coming loose on the shaft. Mike, it was silent, dead, not moving, expired - much like the proverbial Norwegian Blue parrot! The...
- Fri 27 Jul, 2018 15:24
- Forum: Z3 roadster
- Topic: What makes a screen wash pump fail?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3842
Re: What makes a screen wash pump fail?
It might have become clogged. Or it might just have given up. I don’t think 16 years is too bad. My brother’s 8 years old 1 Series pump has stopped working. And I’ll have to take the driver wing off for that. I suppose that's progress! Mine should not have been clogged as I pressure hosed the reser...
- Fri 27 Jul, 2018 13:54
- Forum: Z3 roadster
- Topic: What makes a screen wash pump fail?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3842
What makes a screen wash pump fail?
I don't drive my Z3 a lot and it tends to be in fine weather so the wipers and washers are not often used. The car has done only about 46,000 miles since it was built in the final week of production in 2002 anyway. So why did my screen washer pump die with no warning last week? It had worked perfect...
- Tue 24 Jul, 2018 19:06
- Forum: Spotted!
- Topic: Black Z3 hard shoulder M25
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3827
Black Z3 hard shoulder M25
Between M4 and M40 clockwise. Sorry I didn't stop but I'm afraid I carry no tools and has two-up so a lift couldn't have happened either. I was three lanes away from you when I spotted you anyway. Hope it wasn't too calamitous?
- Wed 11 Jul, 2018 16:40
- Forum: The Gallery
- Topic: Z4 M Coupe
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7061
Re: Z4 M Coupe
My son has one and I have to say it is somewhat different.
- Tue 10 Jul, 2018 08:02
- Forum: Z3 roadster
- Topic: ABS & DSC lights again!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3501
Re: ABS & DSC lights again!
Mine does this every year for a week or two after the MOT. Then stops and doesn’t re-show all year. I’ve no logical explanation other than the test upsets the sensors and system a bit. Or it’s just total coincidence! Cheers Andy I avoid the roller brake test by saying there's a limited slip differe...
- Thu 05 Jul, 2018 16:01
- Forum: Z3 roadster
- Topic: Fog light woes
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3157
Re: Fog light woes
That would ensure the broken lens fragments remained in situ but not that is wasn't broken. A rigid piece of acrylic or polycarbonate, as suggested by an earlier reply, is the way forward. Or save your swear box money to replace the next broken lens!
- Thu 05 Jul, 2018 08:23
- Forum: Z3 roadster
- Topic: Fog light woes
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3157
Re: Fog light woes
If it is any consolation I had one broken within a few weeks of purchase in autumn 2009, but both are still intact after nine years and several thousand miles. It is a lottery I'm afraid. I do not know of any protective film but a stainless steel woven mesh guard could be fashioned to stand off from...
- Sun 10 Jun, 2018 15:37
- Forum: Z3 roadster
- Topic: No throttle response
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3153
Re: No throttle response
Looking at your profile and car, if you still refer to a 2.2i 2002 model then you certainly have a fly-by-wire throttle. On the don't look for zebras principle (when you hear hoofbeats think of horses, not zebras) I would put money on a goosed throttle pedal pot. This RealOEM page shows you where to...
- Tue 05 Jun, 2018 09:08
- Forum: Z3 roadster
- Topic: Getting the Spare Wheel out
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4086
Re: Getting the Spare Wheel out
BMW kindly provide a polythene bag to put the wheel in while the passenger carries it! Always deflate it first though http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edi ... 600833.stm
- Tue 22 May, 2018 18:50
- Forum: Site Announcements and Feedback
- Topic: I have to sign in almost every time
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4019
Re: I have to sign in almost every time
Thanks Robert, I'll try that.
- Tue 22 May, 2018 16:38
- Forum: Site Announcements and Feedback
- Topic: I have to sign in almost every time
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4019
I have to sign in almost every time
Why, all of a sudden, do I need to sign in each time* I visit despite ticking the 'keep me signed in' box?
*Occasionally I don't have to.
*Occasionally I don't have to.
- Sun 20 May, 2018 07:57
- Forum: Z3 roadster
- Topic: Z3 Passenger Door closed/locked will not open
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3761
- Sat 19 May, 2018 16:39
- Forum: Z3 roadster
- Topic: Z3 Passenger Door closed/locked will not open
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3761
Re: Z3 Passenger Door closed/locked will not open
My passenger door will often not unlock. The lever doesn't release it either. It happens almost always if the passenger door is locked by its own button rather than the driver's side button. Sometimes it happens even if the car is locked by the driver's door however. The way to release it is to relo...
- Thu 19 Apr, 2018 19:26
- Forum: Z3 roadster
- Topic: INPA experts
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5852
- Sun 08 Apr, 2018 07:07
- Forum: Z3 roadster
- Topic: INPA experts
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5852
Re: INPA experts
My EEP_1 fault lay with the coding plug. It also caused speedo drift but it was reading marginally fast not hugely. The original cluster with a second hand coding plug sorted it. I had to have the recorded mileage corrected because it was 80k too high on the replacement plug and that means I live wi...
- Wed 28 Mar, 2018 15:37
- Forum: Stock exchange
- Topic: The last S54 off the production line, now on sale
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2408
Re: The last S54 off the production line, now on sale
Sixteen years old and £35k...
I have 'possibly' the last 2.2i Sport off the line and about 45,000 miles. What's that worth by these standards?
I have 'possibly' the last 2.2i Sport off the line and about 45,000 miles. What's that worth by these standards?
- Tue 27 Feb, 2018 19:26
- Forum: Z3 roadster
- Topic: Dynamic Brake Control (DBC)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3322
Re: Dynamic Brake Control (DBC)
Mine was built in w/c 23 June 2002 (26th if memory serves) and production ended on the 28th - pretty late then! In what way 'different' Brian4?
- Mon 26 Feb, 2018 20:23
- Forum: Z3 roadster
- Topic: Dynamic Brake Control (DBC)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3322
Re: Dynamic Brake Control (DBC)
PM sent, thanks
- Mon 26 Feb, 2018 16:35
- Forum: Z3 roadster
- Topic: Dynamic Brake Control (DBC)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3322
Re: Dynamic Brake Control (DBC)
Mrscalex, I do mean DBC not DSC and further research tells me that cars with DSC also have DBC, but those with ASC do not. Dynamic brake control assesses the apparent urgency of a braking event and if deemed a 'panic' brake it will apply full brake effort until you come off the pedal completely. Hav...
- Mon 26 Feb, 2018 09:48
- Forum: Z3 roadster
- Topic: Dynamic Brake Control (DBC)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3322
Dynamic Brake Control (DBC)
I have a very late Z3 2.2i Sport built in the last week of production in summer 2002. Occasionally I have encountered an awkward behaviour by the braking system and that is that when I have brake abruptly, as one might on a country lane if a car appears coming the other way carrying a bit of excess ...
- Mon 08 Jan, 2018 20:17
- Forum: Z3 roadster
- Topic: off line for a bit
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7050
Re: off line for a bit
If you mean by minus the lung that they removed it, then you might like to know an uncle of mine - born in the nineteenth century so in the primitive era of medicine - had only one lung after the other was removed, and he managed pretty well on the remaining one. Good luck, whatever they decide for ...
- Fri 10 Nov, 2017 14:59
- Forum: Z3 roadster
- Topic: Import Z3s
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7531
Re: Import Z3s
The one caution applied to Japanese imports of Japanese cars (typically MX5s) is the lower level of corrosion protection applied there. Heh, the UK market MX-5s weren't a great deal better, as I found to my cost! :head: Honda S2000s were not too good either. Japanese cars seem to lag behind ours in...
- Fri 10 Nov, 2017 09:26
- Forum: Z3 roadster
- Topic: Import Z3s
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7531
Re: Import Z3s
The one caution applied to Japanese imports of Japanese cars (typically MX5s) is the lower level of corrosion protection applied there. In the case of 'foreign' built cars from Japan this worry may not apply. You need to know from BMW ideally whether the US factory differentiated European standard R...
- Tue 07 Nov, 2017 12:57
- Forum: Better Driving
- Topic: You just go off the dual carriageway and then back on......
- Replies: 6
- Views: 19030
Re: You just go off the dual carriageway and then back on......
Of course at J6 on the M6 (Gravelly Hill or Spaghetti Junction) it is a local sport to close up in lane one to force late lane changers to continue on the motorway. But that's Birmingham... :head: I'm from Birmingham and saw Spagehtti Junction being built. People have been doing that since it opene...
- Tue 07 Nov, 2017 07:43
- Forum: Better Driving
- Topic: You just go off the dual carriageway and then back on......
- Replies: 6
- Views: 19030
Re: You just go off the dual carriageway and then back on......
If I am on a motorway looking to leave at an exit, I'll begin the 'lane shuffle' at the half-mile marker. Usually I'll find I am still not in lane one for a quarter of the remaining distance, but never have I been caught out by the time the exit arrives - by some margin. A half-mile is plenty of dis...
- Sun 05 Nov, 2017 09:37
- Forum: Z3 roadster
- Topic: DSC Warning Lights on
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3358
Re: DSC Warning Lights on
Yes, sorry Mike, I should have checked your profile before I posted!
I seem to recall that there may well be a work-around but I cannot remember what it is. I think it involves the original poster of the images to add some code to the thread they're embedded in.
I seem to recall that there may well be a work-around but I cannot remember what it is. I think it involves the original poster of the images to add some code to the thread they're embedded in.
- Sat 04 Nov, 2017 09:22
- Forum: Z3 roadster
- Topic: DSC Warning Lights on
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3358
Re: DSC Warning Lights on
I doubt that this will be a lot of help but I had these symptoms on my 2.2 Sport accompanied by occasional engine misbehaviour. It was the throttle body faulty which sounds bizarre but all these systems are inter-dependent. If the pedal and the throttle position are out of sync and the revs don't co...
- Tue 31 Oct, 2017 17:40
- Forum: RoadZ
- Topic: Ardarroch to Applecross
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11611
Re: Ardarroch to Applecross
It is a terrific road in the same league as Hardknott and Wrynose Passes in the Lakes. I first drove The Pass of the Cattle to Applecross in 1971 in a Hillman Hunter. If you're there you simply must do it. An RAF air sea rescue helicopter made a low pass overhead when I was up there in 1973 in my MG...
- Wed 25 Oct, 2017 12:57
- Forum: Spotted!
- Topic: silver z3 53 plate whitchurch
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5640
Re: silver z3 53 plate whitchurch
Registered 1 July 2005 which is three years after the last one was built. Very strange. FC04HGX Currently in the Telford area.
- Sun 22 Oct, 2017 17:26
- Forum: Spotted!
- Topic: silver z3 53 plate whitchurch
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5640
Re: silver z3 53 plate whitchurch
It must be as mine is a 52 plate and was made in the last week of production and registered on 24th September 2002. A 53 is at least 11 months down the line. Where had it been all that time? I've seen 03 plates before but not a 53
- Sun 22 Oct, 2017 08:09
- Forum: Z3 roadster
- Topic: Free 3rd party Image Hosting
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4772
Re: Free 3rd party Image Hosting
I moved over to Imgur - seems okay so far.
- Fri 13 Oct, 2017 16:29
- Forum: Spotted!
- Topic: Dakar Yellow Z3M Coupé (photo)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4330
Re: Dakar Yellow Z3M Coupé (photo)
Can't say what reg it would be because although I have a picture of it (bought some wheels from the owner) the number has been changed. I do know it was a 'X' prefix at the time.
- Fri 13 Oct, 2017 08:19
- Forum: Spotted!
- Topic: Dakar Yellow Z3M Coupé (photo)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4330
Re: Dakar Yellow Z3M Coupé (photo)
There used to be one in Garston, near Watford. Perhaps it was him - although he's off his home patch in Oxfordshire? There are certainly very few around in that colour.
- Wed 27 Sep, 2017 08:37
- Forum: Z3 roadster
- Topic: Temporary brake failure - advice
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6094
Re: Temporary brake failure - advice
It is possible that the caliper piston exceeded its normal travel and seized as a result. Pumping the pedal should have drawn in more fluid as it does when you've fitted new pads and have pushed the pistons back in to the cylinders. In any case you're back on the road with functioning brakes.
- Tue 26 Sep, 2017 16:15
- Forum: Z3 roadster
- Topic: Temporary brake failure - advice
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6094
Re: Temporary brake failure - advice
So how did the braking return if the pad had broken up?
This happened to my son's Z4M Coupé
This happened to my son's Z4M Coupé
- Sat 23 Sep, 2017 07:01
- Forum: Z3 roadster
- Topic: Hesitating throttle,
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1869
Re: Hesitating throttle,
Cable operated throttles and fly-by-wire types each have their own features.