Show Me Your BMW!!!!!!!!!

Show Me Your BMW!!!!!!!!!

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ShineyT

94 posts

140 months

Monday 21st April 2014
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My Z4MC (the black sapphire one) at a recent meet of 20 or so Zeds. Some guys that were there also members on PH I believe.







Edited by ShineyT on Monday 21st April 18:22

E65Ross

34,946 posts

211 months

Monday 21st April 2014
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ShineyT said:
My Z4MC (the black sapphire one) at a recent meet of 20 or so Zeds. Some guys that were there also members on PH I believe.







Edited by ShineyT on Monday 21st April 18:22
wow, where was that? almost looks like the new forest.....

ShineyT

94 posts

140 months

Monday 21st April 2014
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E65Ross said:
wow, where was that? almost looks like the new forest.....
Wye Valley/Forest of Dean area.

Started at Aust Services and headed up round Gloucester and down through the Wye Valley to Tintern and Chepstow, with a nice pub lunch halfway. Was an awesome day, and 20 Zeds in convoy does turn a few heads! Got a load more pics of it but didn't want to flood the page too much haha.

Beedub

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1,954 posts

225 months

Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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AKA PABS]eedub said:
took mine for a run today and got some much better pics!! lovely to spend the afternoon with her :-) Hardtop is now off, was frantically knocking on neighbours for a hand to take it off before i set off but sadly no-one in!! sadly Photobucket has murdered the quality of these... 18s was one of the best choices I've made... the car looks beautiful in the flesh, somehow not represented in the pics to well......




I bet that takes no prisoners?
How has the supercharger affected the sound of the s54, I had a z3mcoup with the s54 engine and it was probably the best sounding car iv driven.
hey buddy, its very serious machine and is quicker than most things i encounter tbh, at the sprint track it punches well into the big boy times too..... the sound of the s54 is 100% intact compared to the STOCK car, the blower is not intrusive at all, the impeller blades are actually trimmed in a certain way to to keep out unwanted noise, however some still makes it into mix, but its enough to complement not over bare. i love it.

Heres a clip of the noise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQGJ08mYSZw&li...



Edited by Beedub on Tuesday 22 April 15:55

Jem0911

4,415 posts

200 months

Friday 25th April 2014
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New car for the next three years.
Really pleased with the choice.


On lease for 38k miles a year over three years.

RoverP6B

4,338 posts

127 months

Friday 25th April 2014
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Which engine?

cerb4.5lee

30,189 posts

179 months

Friday 25th April 2014
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RoverP6B said:
Which engine?
I would have thought 2.0d with the miles he is doing.

derin100

5,214 posts

242 months

Saturday 26th April 2014
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Kawasicki

13,041 posts

234 months

Saturday 26th April 2014
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derin100 said:
wow

RoverP6B

4,338 posts

127 months

Saturday 26th April 2014
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derin100 said:
For all that the 8-series isn't my cup of tea styling-wise, I have to admit it has aged very well. It still looks so much more modern than the 12-cylinder Jaguars and Ferraris and 8-cylinder Astons and Maseratis of the time. Between this and the Porsche 928, Germany arguably owned the GT market in the 80s and 90s.

derin100

5,214 posts

242 months

Saturday 26th April 2014
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Believe it or not, this year is the 25th Anniversary Year of the 8-Series!

If anyone remembers it, even this Dunlop tyre ad (featuring a thinly veiled 8-Series) is 21 years old now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNAAPP0a8SI

Edited by derin100 on Saturday 26th April 04:46

Sticks.

8,707 posts

250 months

Saturday 26th April 2014
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derin100 said:
Believe it or not, this year is the 25th Anniversary Year of the 8-Series!

If anyone remembers it, even this Dunlop tyre ad (featuring a thinly veiled 8-Series) is 21 years old now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNAAPP0a8SI

Edited by derin100 on Saturday 26th April 04:46
I do remember that, and thinking 'wow, what is that?... want one' at the time. Still do.

Very nice car derin.

sparks_E39

12,738 posts

212 months

Saturday 26th April 2014
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derin100 said:
Very, very nice.

Max M4X WW

4,789 posts

181 months

Saturday 26th April 2014
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Jem0911 said:
New car for the next three years.
Really pleased with the choice.


On lease for 38k miles a year over three years.
What sort of deal do you get on that? I have an M135i over two years and 20k but need more like 30k for my work vehicle. Have a company car at the moment through Lex but no idea of costs.

Jem0911

4,415 posts

200 months

Sunday 27th April 2014
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cerb4.5lee said:
I would have thought 2.0d with the miles he is doing.
Yep spot on.
Mile muncher so a frugal as possible.

Jem0911

4,415 posts

200 months

Sunday 27th April 2014
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Max M4X WW said:
What sort of deal do you get on that? I have an M135i over two years and 20k but need more like 30k for my work vehicle. Have a company car at the moment through Lex but no idea of costs.
After looking through the dealers we ended up with Lex
Spec 520d Lux estate standard metallic plus electric folding towbar and Ambient light pack
£514 plus vat
Servicing and tyres £182 plus vat
Based on 38k a year over three years

Captainawesome

1,817 posts

162 months

Sunday 27th April 2014
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JuanGandini said:


My M135i. Supposedly an ugly car but I quite like it in profile.
Not a fan of the looks of these but damn, you're right. In profile in that colour with those wheels that looks lucking rovely. V nice.

RoverP6B

4,338 posts

127 months

Monday 28th April 2014
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Jem0911 said:
Yep spot on.
Mile muncher so a frugal as possible.
I hope it's better than the 60 reg example I ran for a month in 2011. I haven't hated a car that much since the Mk2 1.6 Capri I had in the early 1980s.

Jem0911

4,415 posts

200 months

Monday 28th April 2014
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RoverP6B said:
I hope it's better than the 60 reg example I ran for a month in 2011. I haven't hated a car that much since the Mk2 1.6 Capri I had in the early 1980s.
Why what was up?

RoverP6B

4,338 posts

127 months

Monday 28th April 2014
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Jem0911 said:
Why what was up?
More a case of what WASN'T wrong with it.

- Bone-shatteringly hard ride, felt like there actually was no suspension at all. I haven't been that uncomfortable since I got a ride in an old 1950s Morgan.
- Dreadful electric steering. Imprecise, completely and utterly devoid of any feel or self-centering action. Made it very difficult to place the car on the road with any confidence.
- Bloody awful engine - below about 2000rpm, nothing happened, and it had turbo lag as bad as the Saab 900 I tested 20 years ago - all done by about 4000rpm, above which it just sounded increasingly strained without actually making the car go any faster. Extremely noisy and clattery too.
- Dim-witted 8-speed autobox. Hunted around all the time like nobody's business, slurred every change, most of the time I had no idea what gear I was in, and even in the sequential manual mode (which was hard to activate as most of the time the electronic gear selector refused to be pushed sideways) it still automatically upchanged earlier than I wanted and downchanged when I wanted to hold a gear. Each change caused the engine to come off-boost (which was then followed by the aforementioned lag). The result was infuriatingly jerky progress - it was impossible to drive smoothly.
- Infuriating electronic handbrake (I want a ratchet lever!). When this was engaged, the slightest touch on the throttle caused an ear-splittingly loud alarm to sound - this would happen if I even so much as THOUGHT about the throttle while sat at traffic lights. Riding the throttle with the car in neutral to counteract the lag so one could make a quick getaway from the junction was simply not possible. No handbrake turns in the snow either!
- Shocking visibility. I've had a better field of vision sat in a WW2 pillbox. There should be a law against rising beltlines.
- Really shoddy interior constructed of the cheapest materials - the seats trimmed with the same sort of cheap plastic pseudo-leather that you get on a £20 office chair from "name your office supplies chain". Lots of squeaks and rattles.
- Extremely poor packaging. Despite the F11 being several inches wider and a foot longer than the E39, it offers no more leg-room and the boot is noticeably smaller (specifically, the boot floor is much higher and narrower). For instance, my E39 has shifted furniture, appliances and my touring bike. I tried various of these in the F11 and found that either they would not fit at all (my bike, some furniture) or that the seats in the F11 had to be folded to carry the load longitudinally, reducing the car to a 2-seat van, where the E39 had still been a 5-seater with the same load carried transversely in the boot (tumble dryer).
- ****ING I-DRIVE! The number of times I felt like putting a hammer through that glass screen... all I want is a simple radio/CD player! I don't want satnav (if I really needed it, there are any number of phone apps out there which I could use), I don't want everything to be buried in myriad sub-menus... I seem to recall the traction and stability control were buried deep in a sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-menu and that attempting to deactivate them resulted in an error message.

I will say two things - and only two - in its favour. One was that it had by far the most effective windscreen washer jets I have ever encountered - I'd like those on my E39! The other was that the fuel economy really was quite impressive for such a big, heavy car. However, I'd save my thirty grand and spend a tiny chunk of it on buying a nice E39, bringing it up to standard, and paying bigger fuel bills. It'd be worth it just to avoid that stty engine and handling greasy oily diesel pumps at petrol stations.