JGomon
07-24-2014, 02:45 PM
Hello,
Jeff Gomon from Lincoln Nebraska. Good friends with fellow Mafia members Tkundhi and Gmurphy and am President of the Great Plains Chapter, BMW CCA. Been CCA member since 1992. Currently own a 2005 Highland Green 4.4i X5 with the Sport Package. Also have an Alpine White 1991 ///M5 and a Verona Red 1970 '02. First BMW was a 1985 325e sedan in Diamond Schwartz.
Been gleaning much information off this list for the past few months learning about this awesome car. Well, I found one that finally caught my attention, meets most all my needs and is scheduled for a PPI at Bimmerhaus Racing in Boulder Colorado tomorrow. The owner is moving on to an M3 so decided to post the ZHP on CraigsList. Here is the Auction. If everything is as advertised and per our conversations, I should wrap it up tomorrow.
http://denver.craigslist.org/cto/4566788417.html
I wanted a coupe, I wanted Imola, I wanted the natural brown, great service records, under 100k miles, no more than $14k and an 05 or 06....good on all those. What it doesn't have is heated seats and, for some strange reason, no Xenon headlights. I'm figuring I can do the seat heater elements with OE parts pretty easily, but those darn headlights. I MUST have Xenon or HID headllights on this car. It does have the projector lenses as you can see in the pictures. In my E34 M5 I just bought the HID kit with the bulbs, ballasts and fault cancelers and they work great for years. For any of those members who have also retrofitted HID's into their ZHP, what is recommended as a course of action? Find a used set of OE Xenon headlight assemblies or just buy the HID retrofit bulb/ballast kits with the correct Kelvin color band matching BMW? I do NOT care for some of the aftermarket headlight assemblies I see online coming out of China or Japan. The units that have the Angel Eye rings installed are also not prefered.
If I find a set of used BMW Xenon headlight assemblies, will it just plug in or will there be some coding involved or additional wiring? I'll stop with that and see where this goes.
Hopefully the inspection goes well and I have good news to report. Oh, if I do buy it, she is traveling to Omaha to visit Family next Thursday with her mother and said she could deliver!!! That saves me airfare and some time for sure. The timing could not be better.
Jeff Gomon from Lincoln Nebraska. Good friends with fellow Mafia members Tkundhi and Gmurphy and am President of the Great Plains Chapter, BMW CCA. Been CCA member since 1992. Currently own a 2005 Highland Green 4.4i X5 with the Sport Package. Also have an Alpine White 1991 ///M5 and a Verona Red 1970 '02. First BMW was a 1985 325e sedan in Diamond Schwartz.
Been gleaning much information off this list for the past few months learning about this awesome car. Well, I found one that finally caught my attention, meets most all my needs and is scheduled for a PPI at Bimmerhaus Racing in Boulder Colorado tomorrow. The owner is moving on to an M3 so decided to post the ZHP on CraigsList. Here is the Auction. If everything is as advertised and per our conversations, I should wrap it up tomorrow.
http://denver.craigslist.org/cto/4566788417.html
I wanted a coupe, I wanted Imola, I wanted the natural brown, great service records, under 100k miles, no more than $14k and an 05 or 06....good on all those. What it doesn't have is heated seats and, for some strange reason, no Xenon headlights. I'm figuring I can do the seat heater elements with OE parts pretty easily, but those darn headlights. I MUST have Xenon or HID headllights on this car. It does have the projector lenses as you can see in the pictures. In my E34 M5 I just bought the HID kit with the bulbs, ballasts and fault cancelers and they work great for years. For any of those members who have also retrofitted HID's into their ZHP, what is recommended as a course of action? Find a used set of OE Xenon headlight assemblies or just buy the HID retrofit bulb/ballast kits with the correct Kelvin color band matching BMW? I do NOT care for some of the aftermarket headlight assemblies I see online coming out of China or Japan. The units that have the Angel Eye rings installed are also not prefered.
If I find a set of used BMW Xenon headlight assemblies, will it just plug in or will there be some coding involved or additional wiring? I'll stop with that and see where this goes.
Hopefully the inspection goes well and I have good news to report. Oh, if I do buy it, she is traveling to Omaha to visit Family next Thursday with her mother and said she could deliver!!! That saves me airfare and some time for sure. The timing could not be better.