Mods & Fixits Aug 4, 2006 – Dec 13, 2016

Valentine One The first step in any car I have purchased is to install and hardwire my Valentine One radar detector.

Valentine One

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Homelink Garage Door Opener Just $35 and a couple of hours to add a universal garage door opener to the Z4

Homelink Garage Door Opener

14 images

VANOS Cam Bolts Excessive noise from the front of the S54 engine indicated to the dealer that I had the dreaded situation of loose VANOS...

VANOS Cam Bolts

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Daytime Running Lights When one of my daytime running lights burned out, it was time to try and find an LED replacement for the dinky factory...

Daytime Running Lights

14 images

License Plate Lights More LED retrofits, this time I upgraded the M Roadster's license plate lights with a kit from LeatherZ

License Plate Lights

12 images

smarTop Controller One of the most useful mods that I have done was to add a smartTop Controller to my Z4. Normally you have to hold the...

smarTop Controller

15 images

Trunk Lighting Trunk illumination in the Z4 is pretty measly with a single small light tucked all the way on the right side. Put a...

Trunk Lighting

11 images

M5 Shift Knob This project is to swap out the Z4M's stock shift knob with that from the M5. The reason is shorter quicker throws and...

M5 Shift Knob

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Headlight Wiring Repair By November 2016 the high beams on the Z4 had been acting increasingly wonky to the point that it was hard to trust...

Headlight Wiring Repair

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battery

gloveboxrattle

tirechange