bimrologist
02-10-2016, 04:52 PM
Hello all, thanks for allowing me to join your community! I found my 2nd ZHP sedan on this forum in the classifieds around the first week of January and decided to pull the trigger on it based on only 3 previous owners and average number of miles. The vehicle in question was if I'm not mistaken uncovered by Fredo on a used car lot in north San Antonio, TX.
I exchanged several emails and text messeges with the salesman about the car and immediately discovered it was a very good candidate. The mileage (159,xxx) didn't worry me since I've seen several cars working at the dealer and the shop I work for now with well over 250,000 and still going strong. After several q/a sessions with the dealer I made a deposit on the car and hopped onto American Airlines.com to buy a one-way ticket to south Texas at the crack of dawn.
Upon arrival, the car was exactly as it was described. In very good condition for its age/mileage, however as used cars go, it has flaws.. I filled 'er up with 91 and sped home, making a mental list of everything I noticed on the ground and while driving. My biggest concern was the blown-out right control arm bushing that caused the car to pull hard under braking. Learned that one in highway speed bumper to bumper traffic near downtown Austin! Got the car home with zero hiccups just as the sun was going down...
The trip was very impromptu, but was scheduled perfectly to coincide with my best friends first baby shower, another 2 hours on the road north to Wichita. Car hasn't let me down yet, no sense in putting miles on the F30 lease, put it back to it's paces! Wa, wa, wa waaaaaaa.. Plagued with the dreaded ZKW burnt bowls. I had my brights on the entire trip of 151 miles and no one even noiticed! Including myself!
It's now the weekend before last, Ive gotten my first shipment of a laundry list of parts and got the car on the lift at the shop. Replaced the valve cover, oil filter housing and oil pan gaskets that were leaving beer can size spots! Pulled the diff and replaced all 3 bushings along with the trailing arm bushings. Overhauled the shift rod bushing and installed a Z4M selector lever. Installed a new fuel filter and replaced the cracked vacuum line. Up top I tackled the intake boots, power steering intake/return hoses, expansion tank and radiator support, installed a set of AL headlights that I swapped my ZKW projector lenses into topped with new AL lenses and for some flair, I installed a euro short console with an aux input in the slider cubby.
I've finished everything on my list this last weekend to include the following: Buffed the ever-loving-hell out of every surface followed by 2 coats of butter wet wax, Factory alarm retrofit, homelink retrofit, new floor mats, stripped all the purple '90s window tint, installed a stage 1 BSW speaker kit (thanks to rattling factory HK midranges), Megan Racing lowering springs and did the coolant gauge buffer hexa reprogram.
All said it's a great car, and the combination Imola/anthracite I was searching for when i bought my alpine/sandbeige car 4 years ago. I plan on holding onto this on until I either blow it up or lose my job!
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I exchanged several emails and text messeges with the salesman about the car and immediately discovered it was a very good candidate. The mileage (159,xxx) didn't worry me since I've seen several cars working at the dealer and the shop I work for now with well over 250,000 and still going strong. After several q/a sessions with the dealer I made a deposit on the car and hopped onto American Airlines.com to buy a one-way ticket to south Texas at the crack of dawn.
Upon arrival, the car was exactly as it was described. In very good condition for its age/mileage, however as used cars go, it has flaws.. I filled 'er up with 91 and sped home, making a mental list of everything I noticed on the ground and while driving. My biggest concern was the blown-out right control arm bushing that caused the car to pull hard under braking. Learned that one in highway speed bumper to bumper traffic near downtown Austin! Got the car home with zero hiccups just as the sun was going down...
The trip was very impromptu, but was scheduled perfectly to coincide with my best friends first baby shower, another 2 hours on the road north to Wichita. Car hasn't let me down yet, no sense in putting miles on the F30 lease, put it back to it's paces! Wa, wa, wa waaaaaaa.. Plagued with the dreaded ZKW burnt bowls. I had my brights on the entire trip of 151 miles and no one even noiticed! Including myself!
It's now the weekend before last, Ive gotten my first shipment of a laundry list of parts and got the car on the lift at the shop. Replaced the valve cover, oil filter housing and oil pan gaskets that were leaving beer can size spots! Pulled the diff and replaced all 3 bushings along with the trailing arm bushings. Overhauled the shift rod bushing and installed a Z4M selector lever. Installed a new fuel filter and replaced the cracked vacuum line. Up top I tackled the intake boots, power steering intake/return hoses, expansion tank and radiator support, installed a set of AL headlights that I swapped my ZKW projector lenses into topped with new AL lenses and for some flair, I installed a euro short console with an aux input in the slider cubby.
I've finished everything on my list this last weekend to include the following: Buffed the ever-loving-hell out of every surface followed by 2 coats of butter wet wax, Factory alarm retrofit, homelink retrofit, new floor mats, stripped all the purple '90s window tint, installed a stage 1 BSW speaker kit (thanks to rattling factory HK midranges), Megan Racing lowering springs and did the coolant gauge buffer hexa reprogram.
All said it's a great car, and the combination Imola/anthracite I was searching for when i bought my alpine/sandbeige car 4 years ago. I plan on holding onto this on until I either blow it up or lose my job!
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