Gedo's progress thread

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gedo

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 Alloa, Central Scotland
Well I've had the car for 2 weeks now and thought I'd better start a progress thread. Not planning to make radical changes but any I do I'll update here.

I've bought a pair of facelift headlights from maxman so the 1st job will be to get these fitted as part of my de-tango work. Hope to get this done one evening next week weather permitting.

Gave the car it's 1st clean (by my hand) and it came up very well, a testament to the condition I received it in from it's previous owner - benmuir.
Loving the lines of the Z4 after 3 years with my previous toy, a widebody 2.8 Z3.

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Yip, black interior. I'm not keen on the silver ones either, unless the car is silver of course. They're pretty much identical to my outgoing lights with the exception of the clear hockey sticks.
Just need to find someone selling clear rear lights now...

Sim_Simma said:
Good work! Hope the lights you have are the black ones, look much better than silver imo!
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gedo said:
Yip, black interior. I'm not keen on the silver ones either, unless the car is silver of course. They're pretty much identical to my outgoing lights with the exception of the clear hockey sticks.
Just need to find someone selling clear rear lights now...

Sim_Simma said:
Good work! Hope the lights you have are the black ones, look much better than silver imo!
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Clear rear lights available from here. Only 14.90 euros postage from Germany.
All the lot.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ruckleuchten-Set-BMW-Z4-E85-crystal-silber-Hella-Original-BMW-/281340955235?pt=DE_Autoteile&hash=item41813a4a63

Just the rears.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ruckleuchten-Heckleuchten-BMW-Z4-E85-crystal-silber-Hella-Original-BMW-/271490680577?pt=DE_Autoteile&hash=item3f361b0701
 
gedo said:
Yip, black interior. I'm not keen on the silver ones either, unless the car is silver of course. They're pretty much identical to my outgoing lights with the exception of the clear hockey sticks.
Just need to find someone selling clear rear lights now...

Sim_Simma said:
Good work! Hope the lights you have are the black ones, look much better than silver imo!
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ahh glad to hear it! Looking forward to that particular transformation!
 
Hmm. Not too keen on all clear at the back. Would like to keep the red lenses and just lose the amber sections. Not sure if this is possible so a bit of research is in order...

Russ59 said:
Clear rear lights available from here. Only 14.90 euros postage from Germany.
All the lot.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ruckleuchten-Set-BMW-Z4-E85-crystal-silber-Hella-Original-BMW-/281340955235?pt=DE_Autoteile&hash=item41813a4a63

Just the rears.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ruckleuchten-Heckleuchten-BMW-Z4-E85-crystal-silber-Hella-Original-BMW-/271490680577?pt=DE_Autoteile&hash=item3f361b0701
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gedo said:
Hmm. Not too keen on all clear at the back. Would like to keep the red lenses and just lose the amber sections. Not sure if this is possible so a bit of research is in order...

Russ59 said:
Clear rear lights available from here. Only 14.90 euros postage from Germany.
All the lot.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ruckleuchten-Set-BMW-Z4-E85-crystal-silber-Hella-Original-BMW-/281340955235?pt=DE_Autoteile&hash=item41813a4a63

Just the rears.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ruckleuchten-Heckleuchten-BMW-Z4-E85-crystal-silber-Hella-Original-BMW-/271490680577?pt=DE_Autoteile&hash=item3f361b0701
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People mask the centre indicator and tint the surround with red tint spray then clear laquer.
 
I'm sure I've seen a thread on here covering the install of new lights on a pre-facelift rear bumper. You probably just need a good body shop and a bit of faith. It's a bit extreme in my case as I don't mind the pre-facelift bumper/lights I'd just like to get rid of the amber which looks a bit dated.

Russ59 said:
Ahh so a bumper change isn't necessary?
What mod needs to be done to prefacelift bumper?
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gedo said:
I'm sure I've seen a thread on here covering the install of new lights on a pre-facelift rear bumper. You probably just need a good body shop and a bit of faith. It's a bit extreme in my case as I don't mind the pre-facelift bumper/lights I'd just like to get rid of the amber which looks a bit dated.

Russ59 said:
Ahh so a bumper change isn't necessary?
What mod needs to be done to prefacelift bumper?
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Then this is the way to go. Which is what I'm looking at.

http://www.z4-forum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=37497#p515848

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/E-TECH-TAIL-HEAD-SIDE-LIGHT-TINTING-TINT-SPRAY-RED-/200657324536?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item2eb81bc9f8
 
Russ59 said:
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Sim_Simma said:
Would facelift rear lights be an option? Takes years of the rear end imo!


That would also require bumper


Ahh so a bumper change isn't necessary?
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Well the face lift lights will fit but leave a small triangular gap iirc, so you could either make some inserts, get the bumper modified (pointless) or get a facelift bumper. Only going on what I've read though not from experience.
 
Are you headlights xenons? If they are then you will have problems upgrading to facelift version without changing the LCM or installing Intravee if you have a sat nav.


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Not xenon's so I think they will be a straight replacement for my original lights. I'm planning to replace the rear covers before fitting to avoid any future condensation issues so a trip to my local dealer (Menzies in Stirling) is in order.
Hopefully I won't have to wait too long for them, in the past they seemed quite quick getting parts for the Z3.

mac27040 said:
Are you headlights xenons? If they are then you will have problems upgrading to facelift version without changing the LCM or installing Intravee if you have a sat nav.


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You need to check prefacelift headlights use the inner bulb for flash, the facelift use the out bulb to flash as it doesn't have an inner bulb that's where the problem lies.


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Bulb's & lenses both look the same so I think I'll be ok. Picked up the rear covers today so hope to get these installed soon.

mac27040 said:
You need to check prefacelift headlights use the inner bulb for flash, the facelift use the out bulb to flash as it doesn't have an inner bulb that's where the problem lies.
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