[pkimM3r]

Originally Posted by PeteNJ

Hah....funny. Have you tried driving an F30 equipped with xDrive and adaptive suspension? My xDrive/M Adaptive F30 lapped Nurburgring like a champ. Pretty sure 95% of F30s will never see driving at the limits like that. Car felt sharp with no noticeable understeer.

No noticeably understeer for an AWD still doesnt compare to a rwd. its not like its a porsche. Even then i would prefer the rwd.

[pkimM3r]

Originally Posted by Robin_NL

Then you definitely weren't going fast enough.

I had some understeer incoming Adenauer Forst(as ever) and somewhere further on in the Pflanzgarten area(slower bend left dunno) ...(18"M suspension 330i 6MT E90) but I couldn't catch up with Advevo LOL even when I was approaching Schwedenkreuz @ well over 200kmh in that not superfast car...

Can't wait to put my oncoming M135i @ the Nordschleife. Testdriving with Advevo this thursday.

Cheers
Robin

Advevos videos are nice. But true ALL awd cars exhibit some sort of understeer compared to a proper rwd car in the same class. I dint understand when ppl say awd and no understeer!! Have you tried breaking it loose it wont. You just lift off the throttle and get back in line. Now that is understeer haha.

M135i nice. Please post videos! Not too many good ones on youtube.

[Accelerometer]

Originally Posted by pkim1079

No noticeably understeer for an AWD still doesnt compare to a rwd. its not like its a porsche. Even then i would prefer the rwd.

I realize this, the last 15 years of driving were all in RWD cars (exception being my fiance's E90 328i xdrive). This is the first AWD car I have tracked so I was expecting to be plowing into all of the corners which didn't happen. But I agree RWD is more fun.

[woderd]

I have a 335 on the way. First time bmw owner here. Can someone explain the headlights in some detail? How the low beam/high beams work if the inner lens dont really work?

[MarkW83]

Originally Posted by woderd

I have a 335 on the way. First time bmw owner here. Can someone explain the headlights in some detail? How the low beam/high beams work if the inner lens dont really work?

Do you have xenons?

If so, it's only the inner lens that lights, and this switches between low and high beam.

The corono rings ("halos") are also on, and can be on as "daytime running lights" on their own, during the day, as well.

In the US the outer lens used to be the "cornering light", and would come on e.g. when going round a corner; but with the "Adaptive Headlights" option in the UK now, it's the foglights that do this, so the outer lens (the inside of it) is completely unused

If you have halogens: no idea. Lol

[woderd]

lol still confused but i guess ill see when the car gets here. The 335 comes with xeons standard.

[n55x3]

Originally Posted by woderd

lol still confused but i guess ill see when the car gets here. The 335 comes with xeons standard.

The high beams and low beams come from the same light source. When you select high beams the light readjust themselves to illuminate further down the road. Works nice and is almost instantaneous.

[MarkW83]

Originally Posted by woderd

lol still confused but i guess ill see when the car gets here. The 335 comes with xeons standard.

Ah, 335 in the UK just gets halogens as standard

[SoFlo_Nick]

Agreed the Cup Holder covers are the most pointless thing ever

[JUSKIDN]

I don't know if anyone else noticed this but the cup holder cover stores in the netting in the glove box.

[Boosted John]

I fold mine in everytime i pull up to a atm machine.

[MaestroAl]

Wait. You drive up to an ATM?

[jbbrann]

Originally Posted by MaestroAl

Wait. You drive up to an ATM?

Yes, we have drive-up everything here in the states. ATMs, restaurants, dry cleaners, pharmacies... and my personal favorite, liquor stores.

[SamS]

Originally Posted by MaestroAl

Wait. You drive up to an ATM?

We have drive up full banking, here. Virtually anything you would do at a physical bank teller, you do via the comfort of your car

[MaestroAl]

Woooooooow that's epic! If it weren't a police state, I'd move

[Chris@codemybimmer]

Originally Posted by woderd

lol still confused but i guess ill see when the car gets here. The 335 comes with xeons standard.

Think of it this way.
there are only two bulbs in your car (one for each side) for your headlights and a mini mirror inside your projectors (also called a solenoid) that controls where your light shines. When youre using your headlights only the mini mirror is not engaged so you get all your light shinning the road ahead of you. When you flick your high beams the mini mirror angles itself up and redirects some light to shoot upwards so you now have high beams.
your daytime running lights are the angel eyes which are powered by a LED all on its own. you can control it at all its always on.

[pkimM3r]

Originally Posted by SamS

We have drive up full banking, here. Virtually anything you would do at a physical bank teller, you do via the comfort of your car

I love the stick your banking stuff in a capsule and it shoots up the little hamster tube haha

[sean10mm]

Originally Posted by TUNED3

I think when you get an X-drive model and also get the adaptive suspension- biggest fail ever. Paying for 2 options that basically negate each other. Again, just my opinion based on my somewhat limited understanding of the mechanics. Feel free to bash/flame

This doesn't make any sense. Adaptive dampers and all wheel drive are completely unrelated to each other. It's like apples and... something that isn't even a fruit.

If anything adaptive m makes MORE sense as an option on an xDrive, since you can't get an xDrive with the standard 704 sport suspension.

[MaestroAl]

Originally Posted by sean10mm

... It's like apples and... something that isn't even a fruit.

[YeaG30]

I tried searching this thread to see if it was mentioned, but something dawned on me the other morning while adjusting the temperature. Why is there a need to display the set temperature to one decimal place? (i.e. 70.0, 71.0, etc.) Maybe someone can explain this to me other than the fact of satisfaction know that it is exactly 70.0 F degrees as opposed to not knowing if it may be 70.3 or something else. I'm an engineer and love precision but come on.

[SamS]

Originally Posted by YeaF30

I tried searching this thread to see if it was mentioned, but something dawned on me the other morning while adjusting the temperature. Why is there a need to display the set temperature to one decimal place? (i.e. 70.0, 71.0, etc.) Maybe someone can explain this to me other than the fact of satisfaction know that it is exactly 70.0 F degrees as opposed to not knowing if it may be 70.3 or something else. I'm an engineer and love precision but come on.

Because our cars originate from European design, where they use Celsius. With Celsius, you need the fine tuning of 20.5, 21.5, etc. The decimal just gets carried over as part of the display design.

[Chris@codemybimmer]

i hate how theres no longer an "ALL" button for climate control so you cant lock both temperatures together anymore. when my girlfriend sits in it she has it set to max heat all the time and then i have to manually adjust it or ill be getting heat waves from the passenger side