Pete900
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- Joined
- Jul 15, 2026
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Hi I’m known as Pete however, I have been called most things in my life time and normally answer to most them. I live in a village in Leicestershire with my wife Sue, we have lived in our village most of our life and we have two sons and four grandkids. I am passionate Motorcyclist since I was a teenager and was a professional test rider for 5 years, I am a advanced rider and currently volunteer for a Leicestershire based Blood Bike group and been a member for seven years.
I am a time served engineer and had many positions working for company’s and started my own company in 1991, and run it for 28 years before taking early retirement in 2019. My eldest son was in the business from the age of seventeen and now runs my business with my youngest son.
I am petrol head and always been in to Motorbikes and cars, and have a fair bit of mechanical knowledge with cars and motorbikes, but these days I prefer sitting at the side of my bikes I find it a lot easier than the cars, but having said that I have have done some work on the Z4.
I bought my Z4 when I retired from work mainly because I had company cars for many years and always hankered after a E85 Z4 roadster with a straight six engine and I already had a big car for daily use. I saw my Z4 advertised locally and went to have look at it and fell in love with straight away it was black 2005 E85 2.5 Se roadster with 52,000 mls on the clock. . I had to spend a bit of money on the suspension and bushes for a start, then I took the run flats off and fitted standard tyres, it was lethal with the run flats. Later I bought a set of second hand Z4 2006 face lifted wheels, had them stripped and powder coated in standard BMW silver and fitted Pirelli P zeros front and rear. That transformed the looks for me, I have recently fitted new bi xenon halo head lights, now it looks super cool at the front and I can see at night. This year I had sensor problems with the dashboard looking like a Christmas tree, so I took it in to a specialist to look at the problem and repair it if possible, 3 weeks later in the garage and it was fixed but it cost me a grand, but all good now. The car is running pretty good at the moment, we have just been on a European tour and covered about 1800 mls with only two problems, the battery failed and I had to have a new one fitted, and when I rev it past 4000 rpm it brings the engine management light on and goes in to limp mode, which is not good in the fast lane of a motorway. So if one has any idea what it might be I would be grateful of a reply, I can’t reset it with my OBD reader but it does show lean on bank one & two, it runs perfectly well under 4000 RPM.
Thank you for listening to me ramble on, but I did try to keep it short.
I am a time served engineer and had many positions working for company’s and started my own company in 1991, and run it for 28 years before taking early retirement in 2019. My eldest son was in the business from the age of seventeen and now runs my business with my youngest son.
I am petrol head and always been in to Motorbikes and cars, and have a fair bit of mechanical knowledge with cars and motorbikes, but these days I prefer sitting at the side of my bikes I find it a lot easier than the cars, but having said that I have have done some work on the Z4.
I bought my Z4 when I retired from work mainly because I had company cars for many years and always hankered after a E85 Z4 roadster with a straight six engine and I already had a big car for daily use. I saw my Z4 advertised locally and went to have look at it and fell in love with straight away it was black 2005 E85 2.5 Se roadster with 52,000 mls on the clock. . I had to spend a bit of money on the suspension and bushes for a start, then I took the run flats off and fitted standard tyres, it was lethal with the run flats. Later I bought a set of second hand Z4 2006 face lifted wheels, had them stripped and powder coated in standard BMW silver and fitted Pirelli P zeros front and rear. That transformed the looks for me, I have recently fitted new bi xenon halo head lights, now it looks super cool at the front and I can see at night. This year I had sensor problems with the dashboard looking like a Christmas tree, so I took it in to a specialist to look at the problem and repair it if possible, 3 weeks later in the garage and it was fixed but it cost me a grand, but all good now. The car is running pretty good at the moment, we have just been on a European tour and covered about 1800 mls with only two problems, the battery failed and I had to have a new one fitted, and when I rev it past 4000 rpm it brings the engine management light on and goes in to limp mode, which is not good in the fast lane of a motorway. So if one has any idea what it might be I would be grateful of a reply, I can’t reset it with my OBD reader but it does show lean on bank one & two, it runs perfectly well under 4000 RPM.
Thank you for listening to me ramble on, but I did try to keep it short.
to the Forum from West Cumbria.
Welcome Pete
. Pleased to see you have signed up, we'll help you spend your money. Maybe see you again on a meet or a run out 
because the only experience I have is my own Z, but there is loads of information on this forum to learn about all of the Zeds manufactured by BMW.