Hi I am Alan Slade aged 68 and live with my wife Maxine near Portsmouth. I have never owned a BMW or any sort of sports car. I have recently purchased a 1999 Z3 2 litre with only some 27000 miles recorded. The car is very up together although it had been lowered using Apex springs. I had the unfortunate experience of grounding the car on our first outing, so I have changed back to original also fitted new discs&pads we hope to take a trip to my son's in Bedford this weekend so should find out any problems with the car, fingers crossed there won't be any.