New daily 320d
Discussion
Ben Lowden said:
Look forward to following this, your Legacy was on my shortlist for a not-so-sensible family car, and this is higher up for being more sensible. Any good resources for understanding reliability with these engines vs say a LCI 330d?
Haven’t read too deep into them. I know there’s talk of the chain being a weak spot, but longlife oil/long service intervals seem to be the killer of the chains. Maybe a fix was done on the later ones? Who knows? This has been serviced early/regularly and there’s no noise from cold at all. Worst case, it’s a new chain if it gets noisy. I wasn’t too fussed about the 6cyl model. It’s only a daily so not doing mega miles or need the speed. It’s plenty quick enough as it is, quieter than my petrol Legacy and I’d say it handles better too.
Once I finish the jobs I need to do on it, it will be getting remapped anyway. Already spoken to Motorsport Developments and it’s going there mid December. Says a reliable 225bhp and 450nm of torque transforms them. That puts the power close to a standard 330d but over 100kg lighter and less weight over the front end.
I always service my cars twice a year anyway. I might even do the oil on this more often. It’s less than £50 for good quality oil and genuine filters.
The bonnet struts on my 130i would randomly close until they were changed.Just ordered some new sill plates from BMW. The ones on are getting a little tired and the ally inserts are going milky in places. I might PPF the ally on the new ones 
3 will arrive tomorrow, 1 is on back order from Germany. Not cheap, but a lot better to look at when you open the doors.
3 will arrive tomorrow, 1 is on back order from Germany. Not cheap, but a lot better to look at when you open the doors. MDMA . said:
Haven’t read too deep into them. I know there’s talk of the chain being a weak spot, but longlife oil/long service intervals seem to be the killer of the chains. Maybe a fix was done on the later ones? Who knows? This has been serviced early/regularly and there’s no noise from cold at all. Worst case, it’s a new chain if it gets noisy.
I wasn’t too fussed about the 6cyl model. It’s only a daily so not doing mega miles or need the speed. It’s plenty quick enough as it is, quieter than my petrol Legacy and I’d say it handles better too.
Once I finish the jobs I need to do on it, it will be getting remapped anyway. Already spoken to Motorsport Developments and it’s going there mid December. Says a reliable 225bhp and 450nm of torque transforms them. That puts the power close to a standard 330d but over 100kg lighter and less weight over the front end.
I always service my cars twice a year anyway. I might even do the oil on this more often. It’s less than £50 for good quality oil and genuine filters.
Good to know thanks, look forward to more updates!I wasn’t too fussed about the 6cyl model. It’s only a daily so not doing mega miles or need the speed. It’s plenty quick enough as it is, quieter than my petrol Legacy and I’d say it handles better too.
Once I finish the jobs I need to do on it, it will be getting remapped anyway. Already spoken to Motorsport Developments and it’s going there mid December. Says a reliable 225bhp and 450nm of torque transforms them. That puts the power close to a standard 330d but over 100kg lighter and less weight over the front end.
I always service my cars twice a year anyway. I might even do the oil on this more often. It’s less than £50 for good quality oil and genuine filters.
MDMA . said:
Just seen your tread now. Will take a look. I got the Legacy so nice I didn’t want to use it! It ended up sat in the garage keeping warm, unused.
I know the feeling. I don’t bother with getting the bodywork perfect any more. I could re spray the bumper, front quarter and fix the odd mark here and there to get it mint but all it takes is one prick to open their door or scuff it in a carpark and its all for nothing. Mechanically It will be perfect, its the daily family wagon and I don’t want it broken at the side of the road with a baby.
Ben Lowden said:
MDMA . said:
Haven’t read too deep into them. I know there’s talk of the chain being a weak spot, but longlife oil/long service intervals seem to be the killer of the chains. Maybe a fix was done on the later ones? Who knows? This has been serviced early/regularly and there’s no noise from cold at all. Worst case, it’s a new chain if it gets noisy.
I wasn’t too fussed about the 6cyl model. It’s only a daily so not doing mega miles or need the speed. It’s plenty quick enough as it is, quieter than my petrol Legacy and I’d say it handles better too.
Once I finish the jobs I need to do on it, it will be getting remapped anyway. Already spoken to Motorsport Developments and it’s going there mid December. Says a reliable 225bhp and 450nm of torque transforms them. That puts the power close to a standard 330d but over 100kg lighter and less weight over the front end.
I always service my cars twice a year anyway. I might even do the oil on this more often. It’s less than £50 for good quality oil and genuine filters.
Good to know thanks, look forward to more updates!I wasn’t too fussed about the 6cyl model. It’s only a daily so not doing mega miles or need the speed. It’s plenty quick enough as it is, quieter than my petrol Legacy and I’d say it handles better too.
Once I finish the jobs I need to do on it, it will be getting remapped anyway. Already spoken to Motorsport Developments and it’s going there mid December. Says a reliable 225bhp and 450nm of torque transforms them. That puts the power close to a standard 330d but over 100kg lighter and less weight over the front end.
I always service my cars twice a year anyway. I might even do the oil on this more often. It’s less than £50 for good quality oil and genuine filters.
Just fitted. Old ones removed, cleaned and polished the metal behind them. I’ll keep the factory blue film on for now until I get some really thin PPF film for the centres.
I also noticed the drivers door seal has gone in the middle. Will order a new one next week.
Also need to decide on a wheel colour. I might do them shadow chrome. Always like the E39 M5 wheel colour. Looking online, there’s also American chrome. Gives them a look of being ball burnished.
I also noticed the drivers door seal has gone in the middle. Will order a new one next week.
Also need to decide on a wheel colour. I might do them shadow chrome. Always like the E39 M5 wheel colour. Looking online, there’s also American chrome. Gives them a look of being ball burnished.
MDMA . said:
Also need to decide on a wheel colour. I might do them shadow chrome. Always like the E39 M5 wheel colour. Looking online, there’s also American chrome. Gives them a look of being ball burnished.
I reckon Ferric Grey would work best...Shadow Chrome works well on darker cars; but it's quite shiny and not sure that'll work well with white...
d_a_n1979 said:
I reckon Ferric Grey would work best...
Shadow Chrome works well on darker cars; but it's quite shiny and not sure that'll work well with white...
Agree - ferric is the OEM sport plus colour isn't it? I had to have ours refurbed as they kept losing air and they came back much darker than I expected, sadly ...Shadow Chrome works well on darker cars; but it's quite shiny and not sure that'll work well with white...
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