The Neo Z3 Manifesto (FAQ, Write-ups, How-tos and DIY)
How To Use This Document:
It is best to scroll through the document and get familiar with the headings and subsections. Then, in the future, you will be able to use your browser's search feature (Ctrl + F on most browsers) to search for a key word or phrase which will get you to the right section. Keep in mind that the correct, technical terms are used for headings but colloquial terms are added for ease of searching whenever possible.
Subsections (indigo) are in alphabetical order with the exception of newbie information subsections which always come first.
Links are placed in order of relevance and quality (breadth and depth) of information as best as possible.
Some links can be found in multiple sections if they are relevant.
* Denotes a non-BimmerForums link.
If you come across a particularly informative or memorable thread, please post it here in this thread and I will add it to the list.
Also do me a favor and post in this thread if you used this document successfully to find what you were looking for. It is nice to know if one has been helpful.
This thread will always be under construction and will get better and better (content and organization) with time.
Table of Contents:
History:
2012-12-30 - The Beginning
This thread and its title are inspired by the NASIOC forum member Unabomber who wrote a "Manifesto" which proved to be a great resource for that forum. I've taken the idea and run with it on the SR20-forum, and I hope it will work well for the Z3 community too. In the later iterations a thread like this is designed to reduce the number of sticky threads required on the forum, help new and seasoned members alike with finding relevant information and ease the burden on those who tend to be better at searching than others.
I think this will be particularly useful to the the Z3 community because in some ways the Z3 crowd is a forum within a forum, making due without all of the regular organization that comes with a dedicated forum (with subsections) all to itself.
2015-06-12 - New Home
The currently active moderator of the Z3 subforum section of BimmerForums (Terry Fleegle AKA Terry F.) has successfully bullied me off of that forum. He indefensibly seized the copy of this thread on that forum. Appeals went nowhere. I am no longer able to curate my own FAQ thread there, and Terry F. plans to gut the thread. I can no longer trust, nor contribute to that forum. I seem to have paradoxically both at once created a forum resource so useful that it must be seized by the forum staff and placed under direct forum control, yet so completely useless that it can no longer remain in my format and must be gutted.
As I promised to the members of that forum, the Z3 Manifesto will continue under my stewardship. It has taken 11 days, but I was able to/forced to recreate the thread from scratch. It will now reside on the SR20-Forum. The kind folks of the SR20-Forum are no stranger to automotive forum refugees, and have always offered refuge to those who find themselves unfairly oppressed. When the Saturn forum exodus happened, the SR20-Forum was there to help. Likewise, they are happy to help here as well. You won't find a more open, professional, and understanding automotive forum membership and staff than you will here. You won't find an automotive forum anywhere else that retains as much power where it belongs; with the members. As just one example of many; forum rules and staff actions are readily discussed and often voted on openly by the membership. Anything and everything can be questioned and clarified, heatedly if so desired, in public. This alone separates the SR20-Forum from most other forums out there. I am more and more proud each day to be a part of it and I hold it up as the golden standard for which all automotive community forums should be judged.
It is best to scroll through the document and get familiar with the headings and subsections. Then, in the future, you will be able to use your browser's search feature (Ctrl + F on most browsers) to search for a key word or phrase which will get you to the right section. Keep in mind that the correct, technical terms are used for headings but colloquial terms are added for ease of searching whenever possible.
Subsections (indigo) are in alphabetical order with the exception of newbie information subsections which always come first.
Links are placed in order of relevance and quality (breadth and depth) of information as best as possible.
Some links can be found in multiple sections if they are relevant.
* Denotes a non-BimmerForums link.
If you come across a particularly informative or memorable thread, please post it here in this thread and I will add it to the list.
Also do me a favor and post in this thread if you used this document successfully to find what you were looking for. It is nice to know if one has been helpful.
This thread will always be under construction and will get better and better (content and organization) with time.
Table of Contents:
- Prospective Buyer Research
- Car Care and Storage, Insurance, and Vehicle Valuation
- Forum/Server/Member Non-technical Meta Information
- Vendors, Retailers, and Classified Advertisements (Buy, Sell, and Trade)
- BMW Z3 Technical Information (Coupe, Roadster, M and non-M variants) A-M
- BMW Z3 Technical Information (Coupe, Roadster, M and non-M variants) N-Z
- General Automotive Theory (Mechanical, Electrical, Hydraulic, Fluid Dynamic, etc.)
- Alternative BMW Z3 FAQs
- Footnotes
- BimmerForums Z3 subforum
History:
2012-12-30 - The Beginning
This thread and its title are inspired by the NASIOC forum member Unabomber who wrote a "Manifesto" which proved to be a great resource for that forum. I've taken the idea and run with it on the SR20-forum, and I hope it will work well for the Z3 community too. In the later iterations a thread like this is designed to reduce the number of sticky threads required on the forum, help new and seasoned members alike with finding relevant information and ease the burden on those who tend to be better at searching than others.
I think this will be particularly useful to the the Z3 community because in some ways the Z3 crowd is a forum within a forum, making due without all of the regular organization that comes with a dedicated forum (with subsections) all to itself.
2015-06-12 - New Home
The currently active moderator of the Z3 subforum section of BimmerForums (Terry Fleegle AKA Terry F.) has successfully bullied me off of that forum. He indefensibly seized the copy of this thread on that forum. Appeals went nowhere. I am no longer able to curate my own FAQ thread there, and Terry F. plans to gut the thread. I can no longer trust, nor contribute to that forum. I seem to have paradoxically both at once created a forum resource so useful that it must be seized by the forum staff and placed under direct forum control, yet so completely useless that it can no longer remain in my format and must be gutted.
As I promised to the members of that forum, the Z3 Manifesto will continue under my stewardship. It has taken 11 days, but I was able to/forced to recreate the thread from scratch. It will now reside on the SR20-Forum. The kind folks of the SR20-Forum are no stranger to automotive forum refugees, and have always offered refuge to those who find themselves unfairly oppressed. When the Saturn forum exodus happened, the SR20-Forum was there to help. Likewise, they are happy to help here as well. You won't find a more open, professional, and understanding automotive forum membership and staff than you will here. You won't find an automotive forum anywhere else that retains as much power where it belongs; with the members. As just one example of many; forum rules and staff actions are readily discussed and often voted on openly by the membership. Anything and everything can be questioned and clarified, heatedly if so desired, in public. This alone separates the SR20-Forum from most other forums out there. I am more and more proud each day to be a part of it and I hold it up as the golden standard for which all automotive community forums should be judged.
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