Hello, all. Problem with z3 rear speakers.

[FRANKIE]

I always thought the Z3 was the most beautiful roadster out there, and when I had an opportunity to purchase a 1998, my wonderful wife insisted that I do it, since the money wasn't earning anything in the bank at current rates, and she knew how much I admired these cars. So I've been enjoying this thing for about a month now, and driving it has been a real mood heightener!

I've had one minor problem, involving the rear speaker(s): there's a sharp crack or snapping sound, especially at bass frequencies. Wondering if this is a loose connection, or the speaker itself, and most especially, how to access the rear speakers. Any help much appreciated.

Welcome to the forum from Egg Harbor Township,New Jersey, not too far from you. I was up to visit a friend not too far from you in Little Falls, (Mohawk) NY................Frankie

 

[Dave Bacharach]

Great colour

Thanks! It's one of the things I love about this car.

 

[Dave Bacharach]

Welcome to the forum from Egg Harbor Township,New Jersey, not too far from you. I was up to visit a friend not too far from you in Little Falls, (Mohawk) NY................Frankie

Hi!

Egg Harbor is probably a good 5 hours from me (to let the folks across the pond know what 'not too far' means over here). I had a very close friend, now deceased, who was a school Principal in Little Falls.

 

[hard top]

Egg Harbor is probably a good 5 hours from me (to let the folks across the pond know what 'not too far' means over here)

Leave Amsterdam over here and you would be in the middle of Germany by then.

 

[oldcarman]

Welcome from mid Canada!! JIM

 

[Dave Bacharach]

Leave Amsterdam over here and you would be in the middle of Germany by then.

Yeah, reminds me of a story a co-worker told me years ago. He was from Germany, and after he was here a few years, his brother and sister-in-law came for a visit. He asked her what she would like to do on Saturday. She said she had always wanted to see Texas, and thought they'd make a day of it, drive down there, have dinner, and drive back.

 

[Dave Bacharach]

Welcome from mid Canada!! JIM

Hi, Jim. My wife and I love Canada. We usually go to the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario each summer. It's world class, easily rivals or exceeds anything found on Broadway.

 

[hard top]

@Dave Bacharach, from here you can, traffic depending, also be in Paris within four hours.

 

[t-tony]

It always makes us smile when we're in Florida if someone says "It's just across the street!" because that literally could mean a couple of miles down the road, ..... either direction

Tony.

 

[Mint]

Hi @Dave Bacharach, to the forum from another Dave, in Staffordshire, UK.

 

[Nodzed]

from Gloucestershire

 

[Slam]

Hi and welcome from London

 

[Dave Bacharach]

@Dave Bacharach, from here you can, traffic depending, also be in Paris within four hours.

My wife loves to travel, and was in London and Amsterdam with her daughter this last summer. She especially liked Amsterdam, and was impressed by all the bicycle traffic. She thought the city was delightful.

 

[hard top]

She thought the city was delightful.

Yes, Amsterdam is lovely, did they get to do a boat canal trip?

 

[hard top]

My wife loves to travel,

I hate it now after years of traveling for my work, hate airports with a passion, it gets to you if you are using them two, three times a week.

 

[Althulas]

You want to try living on the Isle of Man when you hear people moaning about having to travel all the way from Ramsey to Douglas I ask if it’s Ramsey Nova Scotia

 

[hard top]

@Althulas, Amsterdam airport was OK, as I had the iris scan to get through customs, it was just the Airports in the rest of the world.
Norwich is a laugh by the way, they charge you to get through to departures ffs.....

 

[Dave Bacharach]

Yes, Amsterdam is lovely, did they get to do a boat canal trip?

Not sure; I'll have to ask her.

 

[Dave Bacharach]

I hate it now after years of traveling for my work, hate airports with a passion, it gets to you if you are using them two, three times a week.

I can well imagine. I did accompany my wife on a trip to Florence, and the following year, a trip to Venice. I enjoyed the magnificent art in Florence, and I had a really great time in Venice--loved the people, the food, the wine, the gelato, the other-worldly feel of that one-of-a-kind city.

Slam, I would have like to see London, and the rural sections of England. I told my wife to make sure she saw Gad's Hill, Dickens' big house where he wrote most of his great novels; but they were rushed, and missed it. As a Dickens lover, that would have been one of my main reasons for going.

I suppose that if we had the kind of life style where you just turn the key in the door and blithely drive off to the airport, I wouldn't mind going with her on her overseas jaunts. But with our animals and all the stuff we have to take care of, it's a big deal to arrange, and then I worry about it all while we're away. We live in a very beautiful area of New York State, and at this stage of my life, I feel no need to go elsewhere, except maybe to hop into the Z3 and take a drive out to the rolling hills of western Pennsylvania.

 

[Dave Bacharach]

It always makes us smile when we're in Florida if someone says "It's just across the street!" because that literally could mean a couple of miles down the road, ..... either direction

Tony.

Yep. A mere stretch of the leg.