v_therussian

well, at least you did all you could to get it back to stock performance numbers

andy535xi

I don't know why there is all this "crying" about xi's not holding their own. I have one, (chipped) and I love it every day. My car can catapult me from any speed I want. IMO xi is the best awd system I have tried. I have had quattro, volvo's awd, Chrysler (crap), Ford, Toyota, and Chevy. Xi is by far the greatest in the snow. The car takes all that crap of clutches, differentials, DTC, etc ... puts it in a very nice little package, and pushes the car forward. There are no whines, no cracks, no clunks ... it just moves. I have driven through 1 winter with Dunlop M3's and I love the xi. I have the sport package and I am happy with the handling for a 4,000lbs car. I wish I had a little more oversteer-on-demand, but I am completely happy with my xi.

E60714

I didn't do any calculations, I pulled the numbers directly from DMS themselves, but it still seems I made a boo boo. I didn't realize the numbers listed were stock numbers, not results of the software.

http://www.dmsautomotive.com/models.asp?upid=1

Still, even doing 0-60 in 5.7 seconds after the mod doesn't make the torque situation any better. I realize the 535i isn't available overseas which is why I feel the diesel being a bigger handicap. Maybe I'm living in the old times when diesels were known to be slower despite the increase in torque, but I can't find myself embracing diesel anytime soon. I realize BMW has done a hell of a lot in making diesel and performance coincide, but I just have a feeling that the i will always be better.

The mod I was referring to was the JB3:

http://www.n54tech.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3523

Nothing but the chip. I guess my lack of exposure to diesel tells me that it would take alot more than that to get a diesel to do that. This isn't even top speed, this is getting up and going and from what I know, diesels can't rev too high so that seems like a drawback in this situation as well.

porsche911targa

There is not one best or worst method of traction. It is all up to your intended use, and yes, performance cars use AWD, ie. Porsche 911. Let's not knock down one drive system over the other based solely on hearsay or assumptions. This article explains the various advantages and disadvantages of the different drive systems: http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Featu...articleId=43847

Personally, I have driven FWD, RWD, and AWD and my current AWD feels more sure footed and more responsive than any of the other drives, in bad or good weather.

gildagjg

I love my car which is the first AW BMW I have ever owned out of a nice list of them..... It gets knocked for being AWD but I laugh at my frends when they are stuck in the snow and I fly on by....hahah
Check it out I think its hot ,lol.... Taking some new pictures this weekend with the ACS diffuser!!!

Joesph530

What style are your XI OEM rims that you have for sale?

krusir

Please use PM. I don't want people feel this become sales board.

Some people does not like the height of the xi.... actually I like it. I used to get few "BUMP" or "Scratch" in my 540i when over bump in parking lot and hit curb under front bumper. Now 95% of these problems are gone.... I like XI's height.

I drove 100+ mph on American's loneliest highway. (HWY50 in NV) ... Feel the handling just right, the only worry will be LEOs.

mobilejo

I don't think 0-60 times tell the full story though. Remapped, the diesel is quicker from 30-100 than the petrol, speed from a standing start has never been a plus point ot diesel engines, so we wont see a sub 5 second 0-60 with just the software.

The difference in power delivery results in an interesting race between the 2; a UK BMW car mag had a remapped 335i vs remapped 335d and the petrol hit 100mph at 11.7 and the diesel 11.9 By 110mph the diesel was apparently in front but there were no times quoted for that speed. I don't think you could see that with a single turbo diesel but the bi-turbo set up allows the 535d to rev to 5k and pull hard all the way - no tail off whatsoever. Of course traditionally diesels tend to feel faster at lower revs but with the bi-turbo setup it doesn't drive like a typical diesel.

What I find interesting is that the i would win a traffic light to traffic light race, but the d would most likely have the advantage in a situation where both cars are cruising at say 30/40mph and both drivers floor it to 100 or whatever. The i would take over at top speeds but with these cars we are talking silly speeds anyhow. I know for a fact that my 535d has the drop on my e46 M3 when rolling, but from standstill the M3 shoots off quicker.

Of course regardless of which is quicker, we need diesels over here simply because running a 535i is highly uneconomical if you do any sort of high miles. Having performance that is comparable to the performance petrol variants in a car that can do 40mpg on the motorway is the real pleasure of these new diesels. My M3 was just costing me way too much to fuel.

BMRMEUP

This was interesting...particularly this statement "the majority of AWD vehicles use the front wheels primarily and only direct power to the rear wheels when a sensor detects front-wheel slip." I wonder if that's the case with the BMW AWD? You don't ever really get the sense of torque steer that you sometimes feel with a front wheel drive, but it does feel different in the steering.

DrLev99

I was always under the impression that with the BMW's X-drive that it was the opposite...that the rear wheels were the ones engaged most the time, etc....