Actually my second newbie thread, having now purchased my first zed about a month ago. Due to the impending birth of our second child I figured this might be the last opportunity for a while to get away with a roadster so I sold the E90 m3 and went for the E85 3.0se roady with 47k miles on the clock, fully refurbed 108's and a nearly new set of goodyear eagle f1 asym 3's. Have to say I'm in no way disappointed with the change. Despite the performance credentials of the m3 I never quite convinced myself that I loved it whereas I've fallen for the zed immediately.
I think the speaker system is an optional upgrade, VIN decoder states 'hi-fi upgrade' or something similar and it has 10 speakers - astonishing quality. It's been a revelation to step away from the talk shows on 5live and root through the old cd collection for many a nostalgic screaming session with the roof down lol
Anyways a couple of pics..
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One after it's first clean. I'll be breaking out the machine polisher when I get time because the paintwork has a lot of swirls but otherwise it's very clean
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Onto the naughty mod. It's got an LT400 laser jammer sitting behind the kidney grill and a visual alert system (led) under the instrument cluster. Initial thoughts were 'great, assuming it works, that'll help' but as I look into the legalities of these things it appears that despite being legal to have one, it is actually possible to get done for perverting the cause of justice essentially upgrading your motoring conviction to a criminal one. With that in mind I'll be removing it from the car because a criminal conviction would prohibit me in my line of work. It also has a traffic master smartnav fitted which looks to be some sort of archaic nav system that I want to remove as it's basically obsolete nowadays.
Laser jammer
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I'm not going to go mad with modifying the car just going to enjoy it as much as possible in standard form albeit I'll be keen on the maintenance side. Looking at the following however;
- Roof motor relocation to boot - hoping to find someone in the south east that can complete the job for reasonable money?
- Exhaust backbox mod to encourage a little pop and fizz - again hoping to find someone reputable in the south east that can do this whilst I wait?
- Mirror coding - I've been searching on this but not sure if it will be possible? I have electric folding mirrors but they only fold up at low speeds. I would really like them to fold up at any speeds.