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[lmrdave]

Hello,

I am now a proud owner of a 2.8 Z3 pre face lift (artic silver, red leather seats), I've had my eye on them for a while after falling for the lines of the Z3 coupe. I felt like a change and wanted to have more cylinders and stay rear wheel drive so a bmw was a no brainer.

I thought I'd best introduce myself first as it's my first BMW so may well have a few questions. First jobs are just driving her and seeing what needs fixing (if anything) I'm also going to do a roll bar retro fit and fix the play in the seats.

Cheers,

Dave
Lincoln

[si-forks]

Big hello from Worcester get some pics up we all love new Z pics

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[XVar]

Welcome! Good luck with the search for roll bar retro fit parts, assuming you aren't buying them new. Took me quite a while to get together all the trim you have to replace but the final parts are coming this weekend. When you come to it put up a wanted thread on the Stock Exchange forum here, it's where I found most of the parts for mine

[Zed Carer]

Hi and Welcome.

Nice choice of colour and engine - not that I'm biased in anyway

[lmrdave]

I only have one picture of her so far . . .


I already have the whole kit (hopefully) bought off ebay, trim, hoops, brackets and all, in fact I bought it before buying the car!

After looking around I thought lighter colours suited the Z3 better, darker colours seems to hid it's lines, but at the end of the day it's personal choice, but yeah silver is best

[peterandjenny]

Best thing about silver is it hides the dust and dirt ( we had a silver zed ) but if you like to get obsesive about paintwork get a black one We think a zed has classic lines whatever the colour.e.g.



Will you be coming to zed fest ? We did the roll bar retrofit if you have any questions just ask.

[lmrdave]

I saw a nice black Z3 on Newark bypass coming home from a weekend away, it looked very nice in the flesh.

I had my fill of black cars when I had a mk1 escort mexico, I had to wash it everytime I took it out of the garage, but it was worth it!

[aceman]

Just give me a bell when you want to sort out your seats I have just the fix for you (see link in signiture)

[Southernboy]

Being a good South African - - I have to agree that Black is beautiful. Keeping it looking clean is a bit of an issue, but once done, there's nothing more elegant. I think second choice would be Imola Red, and then Arctic Silver...
But it's just preference....

[lmrdave]

Aceman I've already purchase the fix from you!