01-06-2015, 10:07 PM | #1 |
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F31 Ride Height With Adaptive Suspension
During the (all too) many trips down fantasy lane building my dream F31 328i/d Xdrive wagon, I've noticed that the when selecting/de-selecting adaptive suspension, the ride height lowers/raises slightly. I had thought that Xdrive ride heights were the same with and without the adaptive suspension.
Can anyone confirm that with adaptive suspension, the Xdrive F31 ride height is lower? |
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01-09-2015, 10:38 AM | #6 |
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Ok, I just did a build and saved the images it produces, compared them with an image editor. The ride height definitely lowers when selecting the adaptive suspension in the picture.
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01-09-2015, 12:25 PM | #8 | |
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However, I was planning on doing lowering springs on mine as the first mod but found that it doesn't actually ride that high to where it's annoying. Although it does appear to have some reverse rake going on. I will lower it eventually, upgrade the sways, but for now it's fine. |
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01-10-2015, 09:11 PM | #9 |
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.....if you toggle back and forth between DHP and no DHP, you clearly see the car body move up and down, while the wheels stay in place. Given that you can see the color of the interior change through the exterior windows, and all the other careful faithful detail in the build process, this seems strange----and enticing.
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01-11-2015, 04:11 AM | #11 |
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I recently traded my 2012 328i with stock suspension with a 2014 335i xdrive with adaptive suspension, the two cars parked side by side in the dealership and I measured the wheel gap between the two and the 335i xdrive with adaptive suspension is definitely having smaller wheel gap (about 10 cm less) than the 328i with stock suspension. I am not sure if the car is actually lowered though.
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01-22-2015, 02:57 PM | #13 |
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Seems BMW Reads This Forum....
.....and has read this thread.
A trip yesterday to the 328i wagon Build page revealed that wagon ride height no longer changes upon selecting and de-selecting DHP-----they've fixed the error in correspondence between specification and product visualization. It has always seemed that this forum is BMW-managed, and is a professionally run public relations "leak-feed" mechanism---e.g. the beautifully composed series of 'spy shots' of incoming models. Here's evidence of the degree of scrutiny they apply----they must be reading all posts fairly carefully. |
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