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

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Originally Posted by az3579

If you had a TSE3 exhaust, you wouldn't leave first gear below 35mph in said parking garage. :biggrin

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I haz Borla... But I need headers to make the most of it.

cleaned the garage of all the dust from the cement, mud and drywall so I could put the wagon back in the garage

Ever since I got my Beemz in early August, I've been trying to figure out a way to re-arrange my tiny one car garage to allow me to hide her from the rain and the elements. The trouble is, I have just enough stuff from my other hobbies (surfing and motorcycling) to make it a challenge. Slowly but surely, I have managed to make some good headway by utilizing vertical space and getting rid of some junk. Very proud of myself to building my own shelf (in the top left) and getting the bicycle and surf boards mounted high off the ground.

Check out the before (a few years ago) and the state of it as of this evening.

As you can see, the motorcycle and the seats from my VW Eurovan are the main offenders here. The bike I can make fit but the damn seats are the main issue. They are too heavy (to go vertical) and too bulky to arrange them in a better way. As tempting as it is, I can't toss the seats as I will need them for the time when I sell the VW. So I'm still unconvinced that it will work but who knows, perhaps I'll figure something out. In fact, I know that I WILL make it work! Even if it's tight as sardines in there. :cigar

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Originally Posted by illirep

Taught my wife how to drive her! She has been itching to learn how to drive a manual. I've been itching for her to learn so I don't have to feel slightly irresponsible buying only manual BMWs (only an issue since we have two little kids and God forbid there was an emergency at home and I had the family car out and about)!

She picked it right up, not surprising as I find that BMW's are great to learn on. I taught my sister about 10 years ago using the same methodology: press clutch and brake pedals, ignore gas. Release brake pedal, assuming you are on level street, and as slowly as humanly possible, release the clutch pedal until the car idles forward, then slowly press the gas pedal.

If you haven't tried, you'd be amazed that you can go from standstill to go without touching the gas in a BMW. I don't recall ever trying this in my Honda / Acura days, but I do recall those clutches having a VERY different feel to them.

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Congratulations to your S.O. She is now part of the statistics that only 3% of the population in the U.S. that really knows how to drive a stick. Key word.."really knows how to drive". Time for a driving school using the stick. Which if taken a step further...is the greatest car theft deterrant.

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Originally Posted by Lanister

Ever since I got my Beemz in early August, I've been trying to figure out a way to re-arrange my tiny one car garage to allow me to hide her from the rain and the elements. The trouble is, I have just enough stuff from my other hobbies (surfing and motorcycling) to make it a challenge. Slowly but surely, I have managed to make some good headway by utilizing vertical space and getting rid of some junk. Very proud of myself to building my own shelf (in the top left) and getting the bicycle and surf boards mounted high off the ground.

Check out the before (a few years ago) and the state of it as of this evening.

As you can see, the motorcycle and the seats from my VW Eurovan are the main offenders here. The bike I can make fit but the damn seats are the main issue. They are too heavy (to go vertical) and too bulky to arrange them in a better way. As tempting as it is, I can't toss the seats as I will need them for the time when I sell the VW. So I'm still unconvinced that it will work but who knows, perhaps I'll figure something out. In fact, I know that I WILL make it work! Even if it's tight as sardines in there. :cigar

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You know man, I've got to give you props. I see so many people in my neighborhood with 3 car garages, and not ONE car in them, let alone 2 or 3. So many people use their garage space as storage or a hoarding location, and its good to see people taking care of the one possession that belongs in the garage, the CAR.

I squeeze 2 cars into a 2 car garage, and that's with 24" deep cabinets on one side and a 30" deep workbench/rollaway tool chest on the other side. :thumbsup to people that actually put their cars in their garage.

Not to worry....I am also partially in that group of folks. I do have a 3 car garage. 2 of the 3 are occupied by cars....and one of them is my garage queen. The 3rd is my workshop/workbench. JP has seen my garage....it is packed to the best of availability. And my side pathway (beside the garage) is also used as work area with another workbench. In a way...I am also a pack rat.

Jon,

I too witness the same phenomena around here. Just across the way, the family owns two gorgeous Dinan-badged BMWs and they keep them in front of their house. Meanwhile, their two-car garage is used for gardening supplies and is only about half full. Over the last few years, I can see that the paint on the cars has faded, trims and moldings have dried up and cracked. Why such cruelty? :crying

Anyhow, I figured that if I have a garage, my Beemz is gonna be sleeping in it. I guess we're all pack-rats to some degree and sometimes it takes some ingenuity to make it all fit. Kind of like playing tetris.

Lawrence, care to show off your car-shack? :)

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Originally Posted by JupiterBMW

You know man, I've got to give you props. I see so many people in my neighborhood with 3 car garages, and not ONE car in them, let alone 2 or 3. So many people use their garage space as storage or a hoarding location, and its good to see people taking care of the one possession that belongs in the garage, the CAR.

I squeeze 2 cars into a 2 car garage, and that's with 24" deep cabinets on one side and a 30" deep workbench/rollaway tool chest on the other side. :thumbsup to people that actually put their cars in their garage.

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:rofl, that's me right there. But I have massive amounts of tools of large size in there (lathes, metal saws, etc).

I rolled it...














... The odometer that is... :biggrin

132,000 miles


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Originally Posted by 330i ZHP

cleaned the garage of all the dust from the cement, mud and drywall so I could put the wagon back in the garage

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Garage expansion?

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Originally Posted by Lanister

Ever since I got my Beemz in early August, I've been trying to figure out a way to re-arrange my tiny one car garage to allow me to hide her from the rain and the elements. The trouble is, I have just enough stuff from my other hobbies (surfing and motorcycling) to make it a challenge. Slowly but surely, I have managed to make some good headway by utilizing vertical space and getting rid of some junk. Very proud of myself to building my own shelf (in the top left) and getting the bicycle and surf boards mounted high off the ground.

Check out the before (a few years ago) and the state of it as of this evening.

As you can see, the motorcycle and the seats from my VW Eurovan are the main offenders here. The bike I can make fit but the damn seats are the main issue. They are too heavy (to go vertical) and too bulky to arrange them in a better way. As tempting as it is, I can't toss the seats as I will need them for the time when I sell the VW. So I'm still unconvinced that it will work but who knows, perhaps I'll figure something out. In fact, I know that I WILL make it work! Even if it's tight as sardines in there. :cigar

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You are so close! Nice work on the shelves and other storage solutions, keep working at it and you'll get there!

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Originally Posted by JupiterBMW

You know man, I've got to give you props. I see so many people in my neighborhood with 3 car garages, and not ONE car in them, let alone 2 or 3. So many people use their garage space as storage or a hoarding location, and its good to see people taking care of the one possession that belongs in the garage, the CAR.

I squeeze 2 cars into a 2 car garage, and that's with 24" deep cabinets on one side and a 30" deep workbench/rollaway tool chest on the other side. :thumbsup to people that actually put their cars in their garage.

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Sounds like my neighborhood (and potentially most of america, perhaps northerners are not quite as bad due to the colder temps?). There are two cars in my garage and I try to keep it pretty clean. My attic on the other hand, wow, its like a hoarders wet dream up there.

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Drove to work, dirty inside and out with a trunk still full of front suspension components...