This week has seen a couple or three additions/changes to my Z4. First one was painting and fitting a lip spoiler on the boot lid. Having got it painted and "cooked" in the house over night it was out to the Shed on Tuesday to get it fitted.
The blue tape is used to position the spoiler for fitting to the boot lid. With it fixed like this you lift one end and start to peel the backing from one of the double sided tapes, then press the blue tape back down and continue to pull the backing off the tape. Pressing it down to the boot lid as you move along.
When you get to the other end, simply lift the blue tape and start to peel the backing from the other adhesive tape.
Work your way along peeling the backing and pressing the spoiler down on to the boot lid .
Until you get to the end and you have the spoiler completely adhered to the lid.
Like this.
The next job was to remove the rear parts of the roll hoop covers and paint those. I had a "satin" finish aerosol made up in Lincoln to try and match the red leather interior (Hmmm?)
These quite easily come off using plastic trim tools, are held together by 8 ball and socket fittings, (when you refit these some lubrication on the ball pins makes them clip back together so easily).
These are the finished articles. (They're growing on me but need to see them out in the day light).
The last job, of today was fitting some 12mm hub centric wheel spacers on the rear. These really fill the arches, I don't think I will put any on the front but, .......... ).
Always use some anti seize on the hub centres.
Lo and behold we did get a break from the rain just around teatime so,
Tony.
ps. One more little update on the back burner.
