165k mile BMW Z4 2.5 - 3 Careful PH Owners
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CornedBeef said:
greggy50 said:
Mr Tidy said:
CornedBeef said:
A very interesting read! If nothing else, it's certainly lived a long life and provided a lot of fun. I've read this from start to finish at my OH has a 2005 3.0i in silver! Ours has been fine for the 1.5 years we've had it, although I've now got a non functioning headlight lol (if you do break OP, drop me a message as I'll buy yours!).
If that doesn't work out someone on z4forum is breaking a 2003 3.0i at the moment and I'm pretty sure he is selling the headlights. lemansky said:
The Amazon river runs for thousands of miles.
At some point it runs through areas of the rainforest that are almost untouched and barely explored. Because of the porous limestone in these areas, the river water leaks through the stone and travels deep into the earth and forms underground pools almost a mile below the surface.
Over thousands of years, small blind, transparent fish have lived and evolved in these pools. These fish have never seen the sun or surface and have never been seen by the human eye. No-one is aware of their existence.
Any one of these fish would trounce C70R in a popularity contest.
Bravo, lemansky - well played indeed!At some point it runs through areas of the rainforest that are almost untouched and barely explored. Because of the porous limestone in these areas, the river water leaks through the stone and travels deep into the earth and forms underground pools almost a mile below the surface.
Over thousands of years, small blind, transparent fish have lived and evolved in these pools. These fish have never seen the sun or surface and have never been seen by the human eye. No-one is aware of their existence.
Any one of these fish would trounce C70R in a popularity contest.
lemansky said:
The Amazon river runs for thousands of miles.
At some point it runs through areas of the rainforest that are almost untouched and barely explored. Because of the porous limestone in these areas, the river water leaks through the stone and travels deep into the earth and forms underground pools almost a mile below the surface.
Over thousands of years, small blind, transparent fish have lived and evolved in these pools. These fish have never seen the sun or surface and have never been seen by the human eye. No-one is aware of their existence.
Any one of these fish would trounce C70R in a popularity contest.
At some point it runs through areas of the rainforest that are almost untouched and barely explored. Because of the porous limestone in these areas, the river water leaks through the stone and travels deep into the earth and forms underground pools almost a mile below the surface.
Over thousands of years, small blind, transparent fish have lived and evolved in these pools. These fish have never seen the sun or surface and have never been seen by the human eye. No-one is aware of their existence.
Any one of these fish would trounce C70R in a popularity contest.
Just catching up...
The comments about other cars and the general market are somewhat appreciated - but the general values trend is going to be a thing when you buy a convertible on the starting side of summer! I'm not really looking to get into another E85 for a while after this one and the spec of this one is quite alright for me. It's a pretty well sorted car, mechanically speaking and I've no plans to try my hand on another example at this point.
Zero intentions to break this car at the moment- I wanted the challenge of keeping a high mileage car going for at least a few more miles (best attempt previously was my Astra diesel that was literally given away to my then-girlfriend at 143k as I couldn't in all conscience take any money for it beyond scrap) and intend to pursue that brief, regardless of whether it's a sensible decision or not (if I wanted to make sensible decisions, I'd have an Auris hybrid and not a trio of ropey cars with over 400k miles between them!!!).
In the interests of transparency, the car was very much viewed and the issues made clear between agreeing the price and before any money was handed over!
Back to normal service then.
Took the car to work yesterday (50 miles each way) so I could drop it off for what I hoped for would finally fix my door opening issues - a new driver's door handle.
Pleased to say it did!
£340 all in for a new bowden cable, door handle carrier and painted door handle and associated fitting. Happy with that, even if other posters may not be
Very refreshing to get out of the habit of rolling down the window to open the door from the inside, car feels much more sorted now.
I then rewarded the car by taking it the fun, cross country way home.
It then rewarded me back by keeping the cardboard sheet clean overnight!
Next up will be:
- rear light gasket
- clean wiper motors
- rear lower control arms + trailing arm bushes
- sand/wire wheel back the rust, apply something like Neutrarust to kill what I can and then something to protect at least the area in the door jamb.
Then I expect it'll not get much use over Autumn/Winter as I finally get the S60 finished and ready for a foray into Europe and crack on with the L322.
The comments about other cars and the general market are somewhat appreciated - but the general values trend is going to be a thing when you buy a convertible on the starting side of summer! I'm not really looking to get into another E85 for a while after this one and the spec of this one is quite alright for me. It's a pretty well sorted car, mechanically speaking and I've no plans to try my hand on another example at this point.
Zero intentions to break this car at the moment- I wanted the challenge of keeping a high mileage car going for at least a few more miles (best attempt previously was my Astra diesel that was literally given away to my then-girlfriend at 143k as I couldn't in all conscience take any money for it beyond scrap) and intend to pursue that brief, regardless of whether it's a sensible decision or not (if I wanted to make sensible decisions, I'd have an Auris hybrid and not a trio of ropey cars with over 400k miles between them!!!).
In the interests of transparency, the car was very much viewed and the issues made clear between agreeing the price and before any money was handed over!
Back to normal service then.
Took the car to work yesterday (50 miles each way) so I could drop it off for what I hoped for would finally fix my door opening issues - a new driver's door handle.
Pleased to say it did!
£340 all in for a new bowden cable, door handle carrier and painted door handle and associated fitting. Happy with that, even if other posters may not be
Very refreshing to get out of the habit of rolling down the window to open the door from the inside, car feels much more sorted now.
I then rewarded the car by taking it the fun, cross country way home.
It then rewarded me back by keeping the cardboard sheet clean overnight!
Next up will be:
- rear light gasket
- clean wiper motors
- rear lower control arms + trailing arm bushes
- sand/wire wheel back the rust, apply something like Neutrarust to kill what I can and then something to protect at least the area in the door jamb.
Then I expect it'll not get much use over Autumn/Winter as I finally get the S60 finished and ready for a foray into Europe and crack on with the L322.
Glad to see its carrying on to be honest, it'll be a challenge but you'll (hopefully) feel rewarded out of the other end of it! I've run cars beyond that mileage before and I'm rubbish with spanners, you'll fare better (197k on my old E92, now up to 147k on my E class!).
There is a level of satisfaction when an annoying niggle is finally fixed like your door handle, yes it costs money - but if you're happy afterwards then its worth it.
There is a level of satisfaction when an annoying niggle is finally fixed like your door handle, yes it costs money - but if you're happy afterwards then its worth it.
greggy50 said:
Mr Tidy said:
CornedBeef said:
A very interesting read! If nothing else, it's certainly lived a long life and provided a lot of fun. I've read this from start to finish at my OH has a 2005 3.0i in silver! Ours has been fine for the 1.5 years we've had it, although I've now got a non functioning headlight lol (if you do break OP, drop me a message as I'll buy yours!).
If that doesn't work out someone on z4forum is breaking a 2003 3.0i at the moment and I'm pretty sure he is selling the headlights. 
That's probably why Xenons are hard to find. and expensive when you do find them!
Edited by Mr Tidy on Thursday 1st September 21:52
mholt1995 said:
Plan now is for this car to be stripped for the best bits and thrown in the bin - will provide details shortly but figured I'd at least start on updating (and concluding) this thread...
I had a succession of Senators back between 91 and 2006 (unfortunately they fizz like a good'un) - the best bits got swapped from car to car along the way it made financially stupid purchases (like a complete stainless exhaust system and a Lotus Carlton interior) justifiable as I got a long service out of it 
So is the plan get another or something different like a GKD Legend
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