- Joined
- Apr 29, 2015
- Points
- 49
Hello All,
Just joined after buying my Zed last month. Its a 2000 Z3 3.0i, I'd been looking for a while & specifically wanted a silver 3.0 manual with black interior. This one turned out to have a couple of parking scrapes on the bumper & alloys, a very tired rear screen and a rather scanty service history, but a genuine 32,500 miles & drove like new. So money changed hands & I began the 650 miles drive home from London back to the Highlands through gales, torrential rain & snow!. She didn't miss a beat and not one drop of moisture entered the cabin. Having had a few older classic convertibles in the past this was a revelation for me.
Since then I've treated her to new fluids & filters, rebuilt a sticky caliper (piston rubber seal was damaged & had led it to rust) added a tinted perspex wind deflector, stone guards and bought a new rear screen too. Oh & also took out the aftermarket stereo & put the original one back in.
I've also driven hundreds of miles with the roof down & a big grin.
I love this car & can't believe how well screwed together it feels after 15 years.
Planning on swapping out the steering wishbone rear bushes for Powerflex ones next & further down the line changing the alloys for something more traditional.
Anybody else in my neck of the woods (I'm around 30 miles from Inverness)?
A few photos I took of the car on a gloomy day & one looking towards Loch Maree, driving towards the West Coast last week in the sun.
Cheers
Mike
Just joined after buying my Zed last month. Its a 2000 Z3 3.0i, I'd been looking for a while & specifically wanted a silver 3.0 manual with black interior. This one turned out to have a couple of parking scrapes on the bumper & alloys, a very tired rear screen and a rather scanty service history, but a genuine 32,500 miles & drove like new. So money changed hands & I began the 650 miles drive home from London back to the Highlands through gales, torrential rain & snow!. She didn't miss a beat and not one drop of moisture entered the cabin. Having had a few older classic convertibles in the past this was a revelation for me.
Since then I've treated her to new fluids & filters, rebuilt a sticky caliper (piston rubber seal was damaged & had led it to rust) added a tinted perspex wind deflector, stone guards and bought a new rear screen too. Oh & also took out the aftermarket stereo & put the original one back in.
I've also driven hundreds of miles with the roof down & a big grin.
I love this car & can't believe how well screwed together it feels after 15 years.
Planning on swapping out the steering wishbone rear bushes for Powerflex ones next & further down the line changing the alloys for something more traditional.
Anybody else in my neck of the woods (I'm around 30 miles from Inverness)?
A few photos I took of the car on a gloomy day & one looking towards Loch Maree, driving towards the West Coast last week in the sun.
Cheers
Mike
to the forum from me too in Staffordshire. Good looking Zed you've found, enjoy it
Tom
!