What did you do for your ZHP/ BMW / MINI today? #2

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Originally Posted by BCS_ZHP

Had a great Easter with our family and the in-laws, then got home around 4. Watched the Caps play to a 3-3 tie and thought wouldn't waste anymore time, didn't want to give them a chance to let me down. Decided about 5:30 to finally start on those ceramic pads for the X5. Under warranty, the dealer replaced front rotors & pads and back pads about 1K miles ago but declined to install my ceramic pads when I offered them. They said if I made them put non-OEM parts on the X5 it would void the warranty, so rather than fight them I told them to just install their parts and I knew I'd change the pads to ceramics myself. Finished around 7, took it out to bed the pads, and with my full belly of Easter dinner I damn near made myself sick cause those new pads grabbed so well.

Think I'm set for a while maintenance-wise on the fleet, it actually feels kind of good to not have a car maintenance need hanging over my head. I plan to do some PM with a cooling system refresh on my mine and the wife's car over the next few months but its no rush for now. Mine has 74K miles so its about that time, hers only has 45K miles but its coming up on 9 years old so I want to do it too.

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Did you just replace the pads to ceramic and still used the same rotors? Just inquiring......that will be my intention also....

Yes, just the pads, figured with new rotors in the front & the front doing the majority of the stopping, it was okay. Time will tell. If it doesn't work out, then I'll probably buy slotted & drilled rotors from Ray (Smileyz), he always gives me a great deal. I have his set up on 2 of the ZHPs, over 30k miles & 2 years on my wife's brakes, pads are still very good, rotors are not rusting on the top hats, no grooves or edge lips on the rotors, braking performance is great. Less than 10K miles on the other set which has been on 2 different cars (John who bought the TIAG ZHP last Sept didn't want that set up because the calipers were painted, he preferred OEM so swapped everything to my car).

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Originally Posted by Hochspannung

why was the picture of the wheels i put on my mini removed? don't like me ?

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What picture?

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Originally Posted by gr330zhp

I've been looking to do something similar. Doesn't harm the paint right?

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Stathi, a good friend of mine has been doing this for 6 years and recently just opened his own business, Seacoast Auto Solutions. Let me know if you want me to get you in touch with him.

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Originally Posted by CERF04ZHP

Stathi, a good friend of mine has been doing this for 6 years and recently just opened his own business, Seacoast Auto Solutions. Let me know if you want me to get you in touch with him.

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That'd be great! I'll text you tomorrow Channing.


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vague clean up of the new car, I need to go buy lots of clay to clean up this paint.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...4C558B794F.jpg

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Originally Posted by Hermes

vague clean up of the new car, I need to go buy lots of clay to clean up this paint.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...4C558B794F.jpg

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Awwwwww yeeeaah! :)


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The last good 7 series :thumbsup

I didnt do anything to mine today but it finally hit 70k.

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Originally Posted by BRGcoopahS

The last good 7 series :thumbsup

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+1

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thanks everybody!