Any Other Aluminum Parts Other Than the Roof?

rfx45 · 03-20-2012, 12:00 PM

Just curious if the E89 Z4 has any other body panels that is made of aluminum other than the foldable hard top?

drwillb · 03-20-2012, 12:08 PM

The hood is Alu as well.

jparnes1 · 03-20-2012, 12:38 PM

Or "aluminium" as they say in the UK.

rfx45 · 03-20-2012, 12:50 PM

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Originally Posted by jparnes1

Or "aluminium" as they say in the UK.

I was going to type it that way and kept imaging the Top Gear guys just correcting me and how I can't even say the word correctly being American and all.

Alright, so only the hood and roof are aluminum, nothing else?

ManiacGT · 03-20-2012, 12:55 PM

Front wings also, just point a hose at them they sound like tin foil!

rfx45 · 03-20-2012, 01:24 PM

Front wing? As in the front bumper?

ZheHbKa · 03-20-2012, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by rfx45

Front wing? As in the front bumper?

bumper is plastic, i think he meant fenders

redhot · 03-20-2012, 02:25 PM

can we not take a magnet to the panels to see which ones stick??

ManiacGT · 03-20-2012, 02:42 PM

I thought fenders were bumpers?

Anyhow for clarity I meant the panels on the side at the front of the car with the indicators and model badges on.

rfx45 · 03-20-2012, 02:51 PM

Oh ok, gotcha with the fenders. I never really heard of it called that way, sorry for the confusion. Fender on this car is weird too because part of it is pretty much the hood.

Baremeg55 · 03-20-2012, 02:52 PM

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Originally Posted by ManiacGT

I thought fenders were bumpers?

Anyhow for clarity I meant the panels on the side at the front of the car with the indicators and model badges on.

Those would be your front and rear quarter panels (fenders). We recently bought three of the four for my sons Mustang after he ran into the only truck in a one mile area, then decided to hit a few trees to round off the damage!!!

az34 · 03-20-2012, 03:23 PM

the cup holder is alu. lol

cdeslandes · 03-20-2012, 04:41 PM

And suspension parts no doubt

drwillb · 03-20-2012, 05:10 PM

If you want to play that game: the cylinder head is Al

Ok, enough.

Dr Stig 2 · 03-20-2012, 05:23 PM

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Originally Posted by ManiacGT

I thought fenders were bumpers?

On a ship they are.

For the rest of you: Its bad enough to pronounce Aluminium incorrectly, please dont spell it badly as well.
Are there any other words in the American vocabulary with a silent "i"?

rfx45 · 03-20-2012, 05:26 PM

Ok so far the roof and the hood have been confirmed as aluminum. What about the trunk? It isn't necessarily part of the roof but I figure it needs to be pretty light to function well and fast enough with the roof operation. Can anyone confirm if that is aluminum or not?

drwillb · 03-20-2012, 05:38 PM

Grab a magnet off your refrigerator and go touch your Z in all the right places.

richard in NC · 03-20-2012, 07:55 PM

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Originally Posted by drwillb

Grab a magnet off your refrigerator and go touch your Z in all the right places.

Sounds kinky.

mstevens · 03-20-2012, 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Dr Stig 2

On a ship they are.

For the rest of you: Its bad enough to pronounce Aluminium incorrectly, please dont spell it badly as well.
Are there any other words in the American vocabulary with a silent "i"?

Juice, sluice, nuisance, weird, lien... the list goes on and on.

We do pronounce the (single) "i" in "aluminum", though. Or, as my neighbor in Texas used to say "lunimum".

You don't want to start on American pronunciation while there's a country that pronounces Belvoir Castle, Fotheringay, Cholmondeley, or lieutenant the way they do...

Dr Stig 2 · 03-21-2012, 12:23 AM

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Originally Posted by mstevens

Juice, sluice, nuisance, weird, lien... the list goes on and on.

We do pronounce the (single) "i" in "aluminum", though. Or, as my neighbor in Texas used to say "lunimum".

You don't want to start on American pronunciation while there's a country that pronounces Belvoir Castle, Fotheringay, Cholmondeley, or lieutenant the way they do...

Well everyone pronounces a silent "i" in your first three.

I meant Amercian specific pronunciations... How do you pronounce Weird and Lien with a silent "i"?

Interestingly, Lieutenant has a silent "i" as well.

As for Gaol, Leicester... We can pick on the poms all we like but they did invent the language after all.
Its we colonists who have messed it up on them.

rfx45 · 03-21-2012, 12:28 AM

Lien is pronounced "lean".

And I think it is perfectly acceptable to say aluminum w/o the "nee-yoom" in the end, it's just you know, American.

cdeslandes · 03-21-2012, 08:08 AM

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Originally Posted by rfx45

Oh ok, gotcha with the fenders. I never really heard of it called that way, sorry for the confusion. Fender on this car is weird too because part of it is pretty much the hood.

Don't confuse English with American:

Wing = Fender
Bonnet = Hood
Boot = Trunk
Windscreen = Windshield
Aluminium = Aluminum
Petrol = Gas
Aerial = (Radio) Antenna
Tyre = Tire
Motorway = (Interstate) Highway
MoT = DOT
Left = Right
Zed Four = Zee Four

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