E91 Straight Six Bearding
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phil_cardiff said:
The standard suspension isn't the best on these anyway (thank you run flats) or would be tired at this age so I'd see it as an opportunity to improve the car.
Standard wheels are cheap enough.
I'd consider that one but only at £3k or so. His BIN price is silly.
Its still a manual 3.0 n52 e91 sport. At 3k there will be a queue of people wanting it...which means that is too cheap. Its worth 5k plus at the moment. Supply and demand.Standard wheels are cheap enough.
I'd consider that one but only at £3k or so. His BIN price is silly.
ferrisbueller said:
I'd actually be tempted to run one on SE suspension on non rft. I think that would be a decent setup on today's roads.
Mine is 330i SE but it's running 30 profile tyres on 19" Alpina wheels. It came like that when I purchased it and rides really nicely with the softer suspension and limited tyre wallcroissant said:
ferrisbueller said:
I'd actually be tempted to run one on SE suspension on non rft. I think that would be a decent setup on today's roads.
Mine is 330i SE but it's running 30 profile tyres on 19" Alpina wheels. It came like that when I purchased it and rides really nicely with the softer suspension and limited tyre wallcroissant said:
ferrisbueller said:
I'd actually be tempted to run one on SE suspension on non rft. I think that would be a decent setup on today's roads.
Mine is 330i SE but it's running 30 profile tyres on 19" Alpina wheels. It came like that when I purchased it and rides really nicely with the softer suspension and limited tyre wallferrisbueller said:
croissant said:
ferrisbueller said:
I'd actually be tempted to run one on SE suspension on non rft. I think that would be a decent setup on today's roads.
Mine is 330i SE but it's running 30 profile tyres on 19" Alpina wheels. It came like that when I purchased it and rides really nicely with the softer suspension and limited tyre wall6cylGolf said:
ferrisbueller said:
croissant said:
ferrisbueller said:
I'd actually be tempted to run one on SE suspension on non rft. I think that would be a decent setup on today's roads.
Mine is 330i SE but it's running 30 profile tyres on 19" Alpina wheels. It came like that when I purchased it and rides really nicely with the softer suspension and limited tyre wallferrisbueller said:
6cylGolf said:
ferrisbueller said:
croissant said:
ferrisbueller said:
I'd actually be tempted to run one on SE suspension on non rft. I think that would be a decent setup on today's roads.
Mine is 330i SE but it's running 30 profile tyres on 19" Alpina wheels. It came like that when I purchased it and rides really nicely with the softer suspension and limited tyre wallYea so Alpina specified their own springs and dampers which turned out to be standard SE suspension, who’d have thought it. Mad crazy.
6cylGolf said:
ferrisbueller said:
6cylGolf said:
ferrisbueller said:
croissant said:
ferrisbueller said:
I'd actually be tempted to run one on SE suspension on non rft. I think that would be a decent setup on today's roads.
Mine is 330i SE but it's running 30 profile tyres on 19" Alpina wheels. It came like that when I purchased it and rides really nicely with the softer suspension and limited tyre wallYea so Alpina specified their own springs and dampers which turned out to be standard SE suspension, who’d have thought it. Mad crazy.
ferrisbueller said:
6cylGolf said:
ferrisbueller said:
6cylGolf said:
ferrisbueller said:
croissant said:
ferrisbueller said:
I'd actually be tempted to run one on SE suspension on non rft. I think that would be a decent setup on today's roads.
Mine is 330i SE but it's running 30 profile tyres on 19" Alpina wheels. It came like that when I purchased it and rides really nicely with the softer suspension and limited tyre wallYea so Alpina specified their own springs and dampers which turned out to be standard SE suspension, who’d have thought it. Mad crazy.
The Alpina is more compliant than an SE and more focused than an M Sport. Entirely by a better quality more expensive spring and damper set up.
6cylGolf said:
its pretty far off - as alpina use bilstein shocks and eibach springs that are not used on any other e9x
ALPINA didn't use this combination on the E90 models they created. They use a standard BMW damper and their own spring on the B3 models, and a standard BMW spring and damper on the D3.JakeT said:
6cylGolf said:
its pretty far off - as alpina use bilstein shocks and eibach springs that are not used on any other e9x
ALPINA didn't use this combination on the E90 models they created. They use a standard BMW damper and their own spring on the B3 models, and a standard BMW spring and damper on the D3.Sytner said the the bmw dampers were re valved by alpina but there is lots of contradicting information on the internet.
What is clear is that it wasnt bog standard se suspension on either the d3 or b3.
A drive in my SE on 19’s will show you how rolly polly this set up is.
ferrisbueller said:
I'd actually be tempted to run one on SE suspension on non rft. I think that would be a decent setup on today's roads.
My old E91 was an SE with 17s and non-RFTs and it was ok but not great. Fairly fresh suspension too. It rode worse than my current Octavia vRS on 19s
I think BMW did something odd with the spring and damper rates to compensate for the RFTs.
Mine always felt harshly sprung and under damped to me.
6cylGolf said:
phil_cardiff said:
The standard suspension isn't the best on these anyway (thank you run flats) or would be tired at this age so I'd see it as an opportunity to improve the car.
Standard wheels are cheap enough.
I'd consider that one but only at £3k or so. His BIN price is silly.
Its still a manual 3.0 n52 e91 sport. At 3k there will be a queue of people wanting it...which means that is too cheap. Its worth 5k plus at the moment. Supply and demand.Standard wheels are cheap enough.
I'd consider that one but only at £3k or so. His BIN price is silly.
PS - I have a degree in economics so didn't really need the lesson but thanks anyway...
On a less bhy note...
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202010144...
N53 manual touring. Wheels and colour combo don't do it any justice.
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202010144...
N53 manual touring. Wheels and colour combo don't do it any justice.
JakeT said:
On a less bhy note...
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202010144...
N53 manual touring. Wheels and colour combo don't do it any justice.
Thats tempting. Those wheels look like something someone stuck on for a part ex.https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202010144...
N53 manual touring. Wheels and colour combo don't do it any justice.
JakeT said:
On a less bhy note...
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202010144...
N53 manual touring. Wheels and colour combo don't do it any justice.
That's a very good price for a manual 330i touring. I agree on the wheels - Momo Arrows if I'm not mistaken, which were a popular boy racer wheel in the early 2000s but I haven't seen many around since. Presumably they were kicking around in someone's garage/shed for the last 15 years or so and have been thrown on for a part-ex as stated above.https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202010144...
N53 manual touring. Wheels and colour combo don't do it any justice.
That said, it surely wouldn't cost much to pick up a set of original SE wheels.
phil_cardiff said:
ferrisbueller said:
I'd actually be tempted to run one on SE suspension on non rft. I think that would be a decent setup on today's roads.
My old E91 was an SE with 17s and non-RFTs and it was ok but not great. Fairly fresh suspension too. It rode worse than my current Octavia vRS on 19s
I think BMW did something odd with the spring and damper rates to compensate for the RFTs.
Mine always felt harshly sprung and under damped to me.
My summers are 18s and on the original saggy 100k old suspension it's decent, certainly compared to overly stiff newer stuff I drive with needlessly big wheel/tyre combos and nasty underpinnings and B12 kitted BMWs I've had previously. It's definitely better on the 17s I use in winter. I ponder SE specs as I think the step change back to new OE sport would be quite abrupt, whereas I probably haven't noticed the gradual degradation over the last 70k+ miles. I've been around the houses on it a few times and just decided I'd wait until they have to be swapped because I'll be forced to make a swift decision. I'll happily trade back road compliance for a bit of roll.
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