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Joycey

Or it was fitted as a replacement and never connected.

The headlight switch and gear knob run off the same fuse I found this out the hard way a few years ago.

Lee

Joycey

I've been looking into this too. My LSD on my Z3M has started giving me some grief. I found one place with all the parts needed to rebuild the diff at www.bimmerdiffs.com but I couldn't find out the preload I needed on the pinion bearing. I think that bit of information would have to be trial and er...

Joycey

Just a note: those seats you have with no bases, I have two seat bases with no use for, so someone could make use of those seats if needed.

Lee

Joycey

I love the attention to detail you pay your zed. Top work Gook.

Lee

Joycey

Powder Coated Satin Black, Lowered 35mm.

Joycey

I believe when we fitted Dino's 6kg rear shocks they kept bottoming out on rough roads. Hopefully he will be along to confirm. On smooth roads they were fine.

Lee

Joycey

Good to know, Any images of the fitment issue?

Joycey

BladeRunner919 wrote:
Joycey wrote:
You would need all the rear panels.

Rear panels from a pre-facelift widebody or ///M will NOT fit a facelift car. The inner wings are different pre and post facelift.

That's what I'm trying to say. He would need to swap all the rear panels to achieve the look (including wings).

Joycey

Yeah they are a straight swap. But only if your zed is pre facelift model. Which the 3.0 is facelift if my memory serves me well.

You would need all the rear panels.

Lee

Joycey

There is but you will need a shorter prop shaft. They are also hard to get hold of.

Lee

Joycey

Bowler was it you who's brakes caught fire after the triangle run?

I just booked a guy to come remove my Deer impact dent from my zed. Cant wait its such an eye sore.

Lee

Joycey

Back to what waynerp was asking. Unfortunately those coilovers aren't a very good design on the rear. On a friends car we tried removing the adjuster on the spring but the shock kept bottoming out under heavy conering. The spring wont sit central either.

Lee

Joycey

How does the car sit with the adjuster like that? I bet its still high at the back. unfortunately that's how those coilovers work. They dont really get the rear any lower.

If you aiming to get the rear higher i would try tapping it round under tension.

Lee

Joycey

Your welcome Mugs, This is one of those fixes I discovered a few months ago. Needs to be added to the common causes. I have found two z3's suffering with this problem.

Lee

Joycey

Or it could be the brake/handbrake mechanism.

Is it a metallic rattle?

Lee

Joycey

I agree just changed one on my dads 2.8 for the same reason.

Lee

Joycey

Sorry to hear that mate. They are defiantly at fault unless they can prove a defective part. 10k after an engine rebuild is just not cricket.

Hope you get good news from them soon.

Lee

Joycey

Thanks KattyP she's an on-going project I cant stop myself from fettling with things.

Joycey

I finally got all the bolts out. The forward one of the RHS was a nightmare though - I tried grinding it, putting a slit in it, hammering it.....none of it worked. Eventually I ground the surface of the head down, tapped in an oversized bit, then welded it to the bolt head so it wouldn't spin. Luck...

Joycey

The bolt closer to the rear of the car you can get at with your normal grinder, I cut a slit in the bolt head and tapped the bolt loose with a chisel and hammer. I then did the same with the inner bolt head using a dremel. It's a ball ache of a job but you'll get there in the end. Just be careful of...

Joycey

I Agree C_W but on the butt strut the it stops the lower part of the chassis flexing. On the top, the mounts pivot on the chassis allowing the lower to flex. So having a strut on the top will have little effect. If I had time I would draw this up in a 3d model. I'm afraid I'm thinking along the same...

Joycey

Welcome Chazzy, good choice on the shocks I run a set of adjustable damper koni's on 35mm lower springs and the handling is on point when set to max stiffness. I have done 11 chassis overhauls over the last year so a couple of tips: Remove the handbrake cables from inside the car and lower the whole...

Joycey

That's a good question, I have taken mine apart but never looked to see if they are. This is a lense out of PGunters car when he wrote it off. I had a company design some custom halo rings to fit

Lee

Joycey

Joycey

That chrome ring is actually painted onto the plastic. I have a split apart facelift headlight. Give me a few minutes to upload a photo.

Lee

Joycey

I bought a set of 131mm rings from ebay they did look really cool.

Joycey

This is now what she looks like ready for the next show season.

Joycey

Alright Bertie,

Twice I have had a similar problem on my M,

1) The prop shaft bearing/housing past its due date causing it to spin off centre

2) Running non M wheels, missing spigot ring.

Hopefully its nothing too serious just food for thought.

Lee

Joycey

So was I warrior! I once took a girl on a date but she couldn't fit in my zed (Royally tucked up) because she was quite wide the centre console was pushed against the handbrake. safe to say it didn't last long.

Lee

Joycey

Although I said yes on the .org forum I shall say yes here too

Myself and a few other zedders will be staying in a hotel nearby the night before.

Lee

Joycey

I've picked up new calliper pistons and seals.
New fuel tank
Power flex bushes for the rear.

Going to be busy over the bank holiday weekend.

Lee

Joycey

This is a very good question, one I spent a few nights worrying about. I gave Adrian flux a call and they offered me a perk to the policy where I fill out a form take a few photos of the car and send it to them for a fixed price evaluation (at the time 10K) Now I've had the bodywork re sprayed and w...

Joycey

I forgot to mention that I spotted another Z3M at the Fast Show. I was high intoxicated at the time so thought best not to disturb them all.

Joycey

I've just had my car brought back up to near pristine condition. The white wrap has been removed, Front and rear bumpers sprayed along with lower quarters. Wheels powder coated and brakes painted. Bodywork was £780 Wheels £280 Brakes £120 Full valet £400 Those panels alone are half the car. Lee

Joycey

Stick me down.

Two types of engining reading software. Not sure on models without looking.

All the tooling for axle rebuilds and gearbox removal (Done 11 Z3's now)

Happy to help anyone if they need tooling or info.

Lee

Joycey

If you need any parts i have two seat bases with all the parts sat in my garage.

Lee

Joycey

I'm intrested if this is still availible. For a guy i work with.

Joycey

Amen!

Joycey

Bentley Boy, You were given the postcode to the next location and you were also detouring to enjoy some country roads. Shame you felt that about the breakfast I was very impressed.

Joycey

There may of been a couple of doughnuts, and because of that we got onto the track

Joycey

The smaller engine zeds tend to have this setup of a one peice exhaust system. Make life easier for yourself and pop down kwik fit and get them to cut them of and replace them with new bolts. It's hell of a lot easier getting them to change them so you can progress. If you feel like doing it yoursel...

Joycey

Some of the zeds I overhauled this winter had this clunk, the only thing I observed was the backlash in the diff itself. I also spotted a bearing in the end of the diff coupling with a big nut. I had suspicions that this nut had become loose but never took it any further. But the clunk noise did app...

Joycey

I have the same setup and run firm for track use. Day to day I run the koni's on mid settings. The rears are a pain to adjust becasue you need to push them all the way in and twist.

Lee

Joycey

@wonderloaf I also live in basingstoke and replaced my clutch a few months back. If i had to use anywhere in basingstoke the last place I used was Mr Clutch up on danes hill. Its also even cheaper if you buy your own clutch.

Personally I wouldnt say the clutch is at fault.

Lee

Joycey

I run 20mm on the rear and 15mm on the front.

Joycey

I have Dino's car in my garage with a freshly rebuilt rear axle and no front suspension

Lee

Joycey

Speaking from experience these traction control systems can only work up to a curtain amount of momentum, if you're going to fast too begin with all you can do is hold on. To my point, I used to own a 2.8 and started to get similar problems (with mid range tyres) It would try and kick out round big ...

Joycey

I had to open up my headlights last week so I put them in the oven to soften the glue.

She caught me red handed becuase she came home early, the way she reacted you would of thought she found me in bed with another woman

Lee

Joycey

Now Sold.

Joycey

I purchased this a few weeks back from another member to fit on my M, The original colour was Boston green. I wrapped the spoiler in chameleon carbon to go with the style of my car. Safe to say me and this spoiler dont get on. I would like to trial fit a Veil side spoiler if anyone has one. £150 htt...

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