Yeah, jury's still out on the side grill - kind of hoping argy will come up with something after the door handles - I really like the Z8 ones but they're so expensive
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Yeah I looked at the z8 ones early on but with shipping and customs would have been about £800/£900 a pair
Side grills. I'm thinking of using the old z3 ones. Chopped like this.
I have that flat spot too. But only on the driver's side.
Dxbolton
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Z8 grilles are too long.Yeah I looked at the z8 ones early on but with shipping and customs would have been about £800/£900 a pair
they would touch the door gap and front wheel arch! I measured a set and sadly they don’t work
Spent the afternoon trying to route two wires from the boot to the compartment, got them through with the other cables behind the passenger seat but working out how to take them forward without dismantling half the car has stumped me today, try again next week 
What wires are you looking to routeSpent the afternoon trying to route two wires from the boot to the compartment, got them through with the other cables behind the passenger seat but working out how to take them forward without dismantling half the car has stumped me today, try again next week
I had been hearing about deadlock problems and not having a key for the door locks, so was thinking that if I put a switch in the boot for the drivers window I can lower the window and then open the door from the inside. Of course now that I'm waiting for Argys handles then it may not be an issue.
A common approach is to put a switch in the boot that connects to a couple of pins under the dash..that opens the locking mechanism. Can't recall where they connect but could look up the details.
Dave
Dave
Dxbolton
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This assumes you can open the boot.
z3 had the manual key lock to open the boot, your new handle probably doesn’t afford this option.
hence why I can manually open my boot from under the car
So placement of the switch gives that option. Have you done this mod personally Dan ,?
I've done the boot the same way as you, so there's a manual option to get into the boot
From that, it sounds like opening the window is a good idea as it gets you into the car. However it seems a real pain to get the wires through
My windows won't move with the ignition off. Are you planning on running power into the door onto the window motor?
Dxbolton
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Dave I have no external boot key lock, but can crawl underneath to release the boot lock manually.
the deadlock issue probably happens very rarely and mostly due to external handles not being set up correctly.
I recall helping Ian C with door cards and twice we set off the deadlocks. We agreed that I was his unlucky charm. And to make sure the back up switch was a std fitment on any build that had door skins JIC