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aceman

I adjusted mine when I oiled the cable due to it sticking slightly, easily done at the throttle body end.

aceman

Lovely colour combo, whoever originally speced that car chose well !

Welcome to the forum and I hope you have many zeding miles ahead of you.

aceman

There was a small article in Auto Express the other week on how many MOT testers are losing their certificates because they are failing cars when they shouldn't be and the amount of complaints to VOSA has rocketed. One bloke had his Mini failed because he had fitted LED side lights and the MOT teste...

aceman

Right just spoken to Paul and the 25th it is then, I will edit the original post with the new date, Please feel free to pass this on to everyone concerned.

aceman

OK I will give paul a ring at RS Tuning and see if the 25th is still free.

aceman

Are there anymore takers for this, it will be a great day and as said everybody welcome.

Is there anybody who has contact with the BMW club that could possibly spread the word ?

Cheers.

aceman

Welcome to the forum :) There are a number of things that can cause tramlining most notable is the lower front wishbone rear bushes which can wear and cause excessive movement altering the toe in. A usual remidy is to uprate them with powerflex bushes but replacing them with new standard ones will p...

aceman

Buy a lint roller or if you have some wide masking tape knocking around tear a strip off and stick it to the hood, give it a good rub to make it stick then rip it back off. Repeat this until you have covered the enitre hood using more masking tape when it loses its tack. I find this method brilliant...

aceman

Think he has sold the car and trying to sell the alloys

aceman

Shame, any more and I will defo look into moving it on a week if it's possible.

aceman

Good call that man

Cheers.

aceman

I bet it is the thermostat as you suspect, I had very similar symptons which only really came apparent when the weather dropped cooler last year so I changed mine along with the pump and belts. I hade to manufacture my own fan removal tool but the whole operation was pretty straightforward. The diff...

aceman

One word "EBAY" there are always a few for sale on there it's just arranging collection that's the difficult bit as they are rather bulky and costly to courier.

aceman

List updated

aceman

No problem at all as I say everyone welcome. Yes you get a nice printout which you can frame if you like but I will also be hosting them all so you can download them as PDF files.

aceman

Cool guys, I have put your names in with "To Be Confirmed".

Forgot to mention if everybody could also just confirm what car they have got so I can generate a list at some point.

Cheers.

aceman

stu wrote:I think that's at the end of Easter week, so I will still be in Italy

Aww, that's a bummer.

If I get too many people saying they can't make I may be able to put it back a week.

aceman

Guys, check the diary section for the Leeds rolling road thread

aceman

OK check out the "Check your diary" section

aceman

Please note date has changed to 25th April to allow some members to join us I have a confirmed the 25th April with RS Tuning in Leeds for what will be a fantastic day for all us petrol heads. Kick off time will be 10.00am so if people can make sure they are on time it would be appreciated. RS Tunin...

aceman

stu wrote:I'd be interested in the Leeds one.

As they say "watch this space" or rather the event section

aceman

Good idea !

I am looking into organising one up in Leeds around April time, I will be posting in the events section in a few days when I have got all the details together.

aceman

OK guys I will start looking into a RR day probably around April time. Another location possibility is Manchester at Awesome who are a very professional outfit who have plenty of experience of BMW's.

I will put a post up in the Events section in the next few days to guage interest.

Cheers,

aceman

I would also check your rear anti-roll bar drop links, I had mine pop off on me recently and although I had not attributed this to my car tramlining when I fixed the drop links whilst also doing the the rear shocks the tramlining almost disappeared so I would give them a check. Most Z3 though suffer...

aceman

No Leeds is fine... many thanks :) I have been there a couple of times for RR days the last being at the end of Nov' where my 2.8 made 195bhp pretty much bang on the money really for a standard car. Paul does know his stuff and gets very good results. I was thinking of organising a RR day for zroad...

aceman

Not sure if this would be too far for you but I know Paul at RS Tuning in Leeds is very good at bespoke mapping and they have just got a new RR too.

http://www.rstuning.co.uk/

aceman

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aceman

Not quite what I meant. I was actually refering to a previous post by Baz :roll: http://www.zroadster.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=180361&highlight=#180361 I knew what you meant regarding the coffe table but thought it was an insinuation that the alloys would be better off being coffe tables hence...

aceman

Well finally got round to curing an anoying squeek coming from the rear suspension this week. I thought it was probably the rear top shock mounts so I bought a new pair and set about changing them. At the same time I decided to change the rear brakes and I am glad I did, although I knew they needed ...

aceman

Well done, good buy at that price.

Agree those alloys need changing for something better.

Enjoy your new ride.

aceman

Yep, Zed carer is perfectly right as mine is an October '98 build and has the double vanos engine, I believe BMW stopped the single vanos in the Z3 in September '98 and swappped the to the double in October. If you do a search on Realoem you can play with the build dates and see the differences.

aceman

I would say 286mm.

See here;

http://www.realoem.com/bmw/showparts.do ... g=34&fg=05

aceman

Nice car, hope you manage to sell it.

aceman

Boy was it fun getting into work this morning, the problem being no matter which way I go I have to negotiate fairly steep hills. I managed it though the 2.8 makes it quite easy to trundle along on tickover and as long as I had momentum I was fine although there were a few moments where I thought I ...

aceman

^^^^^Amazing how low are prices going to go

aceman

Another one to tempt you Tim and I noticed the price has dropped on the 3.0L. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BMW-Z3-Z3M-ROADSTER-CONVERTIBLE-320BHP-RARE-BEAUTIFUL_W0QQitemZ260322751855QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAutomobiles_UK?hash=item260322751855&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1301%7C66%3A4%7C65%3A12%7...

aceman

Mine got the wood effect console and it was a BMW option as far as I am aware.

aceman

Posted before;

http://www.zroadster.net/forum/viewtopi ... ghostrider

Amazing video though, there are some absolute nutters out there !

aceman

They are back on sale if anyone is interested;

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SILICA-GEL-DEHUMI ... 240%3A1318

aceman

I can certainly confirm it was very shiny

In fact you could use it as a bathroom mirror the paint was like glass. I commend you Ian for such a fine example of a rare breed.

Nice pics, it was far more busy when I was there

aceman

Just replace the belts on mine, they were cracking and I presume they were the originals. I also did the thermostat which was stuck open and replaced the waterpump for a metal impellor one although the original plastic one was in fine condition when I removed it. I had no chirping noise from mine an...

aceman

garythefish wrote: Where do all these screws come from ? they should be in a toolbox or in a wall !

Absolutely no idea certainly not from my driveway, bl@@dy anoying I can tell you that.

aceman

Not sure about the stuff on Ebay but the dyes and other renovation stuff on this site is excellent;

http://www.furnitureclinic.co.uk

aceman

Think yourself lucky I had my car serviced last week and my mechanic found 3 of the tyres had screws in them, luckily I have a spare set of alloys/tyres so only need to get one repaired for the time being, Funnily enough though none of them were going down.

aceman

Mines the same also, wouldn't mind some of that fabric if there is any going

I will have alook at the glue you mentioned.

aceman

Probably most likely the tilt sensor as you say but there is a anti-theft switch behind the stereo could this be causng problems ?

aceman

That looks cool Tim probably work better than mine as it looks as though there is more silica to soak the moisture up.

aceman

BenZ3-2.0 wrote:thats a good idea, let me know if you find anywhere that sells them.

I have emailed where I got mine to see if they will be getting anymore in stock. I will let you all know if they reply.

aceman

Problem is they only have really small bags of 5/10g whereas you need a bag of around 500g to be effective in a car. The one I got was only £6 but I am sure if you shop around or maybe you might pick something up from work if you have deliveries of IT equipment etc. we sometimes do but I thought for...

aceman

They control it very well actually which is quite suprising.

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RS Tuning Leeds Rolling Road day 25th April 2009

Squeeky back end (ooh err!)

Fun this morning