Show Me Your BMW!!!!!!!!!
Discussion
LeighW said:
illmonkey said:
I stopped in nearly that exact place last year, in my Z4M, to comply with the thread, bonnet in shot 
I got back into the car after taking that pic and hoofed it. The wife rolled her eyes, "I knew you were going to do that". I mean, how could you not? 
Just sold my 997 GTS as needed a more flexible family car. Picked up my first ever BMW was looking for a touring but this 340i saloon appeared locally with a Quaife diff and M performance brakes fitted with only 20k miles was too tempting. Shame about the blacked out rear glass but hey..
Really impressed by the B58.. I have already played around a bit. Came on tired Cup2’s so quickly onto Conti Sports 7 (been keen to see what the are like after the obligatory MPS4S on the 911)
Then some googling and Bootmod3 seemed intriguing. So a few days later and stage 1 multi maps loaded. Its made the car feel very boosted. In fact almost too much for my taste. I may well get a custom map with a more progressive feel.
The last update was too add Apple CarPlay - was surprised to find it missing. BMW said ‘not possible’ but again google to the rescue. I discovered the ‘enhanced Bluetooth’ package I was missing consisted of a £7 wifi antenna and for £35 you could buy the coding on eBay.
So a slightly anxious coding session on a very old windows laptop and bang. CarPlay all sorted.
That’s about all to report for now. Next steps will be 18” wheels in the summer to replace the nice looking but too big 20’s and then probably look at some suspension tweaks?
I’d like to try and dial out some of the understeer?
A few heavily edited images below!
Really impressed by the B58.. I have already played around a bit. Came on tired Cup2’s so quickly onto Conti Sports 7 (been keen to see what the are like after the obligatory MPS4S on the 911)
Then some googling and Bootmod3 seemed intriguing. So a few days later and stage 1 multi maps loaded. Its made the car feel very boosted. In fact almost too much for my taste. I may well get a custom map with a more progressive feel.
The last update was too add Apple CarPlay - was surprised to find it missing. BMW said ‘not possible’ but again google to the rescue. I discovered the ‘enhanced Bluetooth’ package I was missing consisted of a £7 wifi antenna and for £35 you could buy the coding on eBay.
So a slightly anxious coding session on a very old windows laptop and bang. CarPlay all sorted.
That’s about all to report for now. Next steps will be 18” wheels in the summer to replace the nice looking but too big 20’s and then probably look at some suspension tweaks?
I’d like to try and dial out some of the understeer?
A few heavily edited images below!
Ob 1 said:
Just sold my 997 GTS as needed a more flexible family car. Picked up my first ever BMW was looking for a touring but this 340i saloon appeared locally with a Quaife diff and M performance brakes fitted with only 20k miles was too tempting. Shame about the blacked out rear glass but hey..
Really impressed by the B58.. I have already played around a bit. Came on tired Cup2’s so quickly onto Conti Sports 7 (been keen to see what the are like after the obligatory MPS4S on the 911)
Then some googling and Bootmod3 seemed intriguing. So a few days later and stage 1 multi maps loaded. Its made the car feel very boosted. In fact almost too much for my taste. I may well get a custom map with a more progressive feel.
The last update was too add Apple CarPlay - was surprised to find it missing. BMW said ‘not possible’ but again google to the rescue. I discovered the ‘enhanced Bluetooth’ package I was missing consisted of a £7 wifi antenna and for £35 you could buy the coding on eBay.
So a slightly anxious coding session on a very old windows laptop and bang. CarPlay all sorted.
That’s about all to report for now. Next steps will be 18” wheels in the summer to replace the nice looking but too big 20’s and then probably look at some suspension tweaks?
I’d like to try and dial out some of the understeer?
A few heavily edited images below!
That looks superb; great colour too Really impressed by the B58.. I have already played around a bit. Came on tired Cup2’s so quickly onto Conti Sports 7 (been keen to see what the are like after the obligatory MPS4S on the 911)
Then some googling and Bootmod3 seemed intriguing. So a few days later and stage 1 multi maps loaded. Its made the car feel very boosted. In fact almost too much for my taste. I may well get a custom map with a more progressive feel.
The last update was too add Apple CarPlay - was surprised to find it missing. BMW said ‘not possible’ but again google to the rescue. I discovered the ‘enhanced Bluetooth’ package I was missing consisted of a £7 wifi antenna and for £35 you could buy the coding on eBay.
So a slightly anxious coding session on a very old windows laptop and bang. CarPlay all sorted.
That’s about all to report for now. Next steps will be 18” wheels in the summer to replace the nice looking but too big 20’s and then probably look at some suspension tweaks?
I’d like to try and dial out some of the understeer?
A few heavily edited images below!
I've got the 18" 405Ms as my summer wheels with Goodyear Assym6s and they were the best thing I did to my F31 - they're forged, so c9kg a corner and you can really notice the difference too (my current winters are 397s and they're nearly 15kg a corner)!
Get a thread going in the Readers Cars section
d_a_n1979 said:
That looks superb; great colour too
I've got the 18" 405Ms as my summer wheels with Goodyear Assym6s and they were the best thing I did to my F31 - they're forged, so c9kg a corner and you can really notice the difference too (my current winters are 397s and they're nearly 15kg a corner)!
Get a thread going in the Readers Cars section
Thanks the colour was another thing which swayed my from a touring.. got a roof rack instead. Ok a set of 18’s 405 are on the shopping list. Will have to wait now as just got new rubber. Not sure I’ll keep enough updates to warrant a thread in readers cars! I've got the 18" 405Ms as my summer wheels with Goodyear Assym6s and they were the best thing I did to my F31 - they're forged, so c9kg a corner and you can really notice the difference too (my current winters are 397s and they're nearly 15kg a corner)!
Get a thread going in the Readers Cars section
Ob 1 said:
d_a_n1979 said:
That looks superb; great colour too
I've got the 18" 405Ms as my summer wheels with Goodyear Assym6s and they were the best thing I did to my F31 - they're forged, so c9kg a corner and you can really notice the difference too (my current winters are 397s and they're nearly 15kg a corner)!
Get a thread going in the Readers Cars section
Thanks the colour was another thing which swayed my from a touring.. got a roof rack instead. Ok a set of 18’s 405 are on the shopping list. Will have to wait now as just got new rubber. Not sure I’ll keep enough updates to warrant a thread in readers cars! I've got the 18" 405Ms as my summer wheels with Goodyear Assym6s and they were the best thing I did to my F31 - they're forged, so c9kg a corner and you can really notice the difference too (my current winters are 397s and they're nearly 15kg a corner)!
Get a thread going in the Readers Cars section
And your 20" 405Ms will sell easy enough; more so with premium tyres
18" 405Ms really work well on our UK roads; non RFTs too - perfect combo:
undone by autocorrect (again). 
d_a_n1979 said:
That looks really well; I do like an F11 touring 
Thanks, I've liked the F11 shape for a long time, had a couple E91s and an F31 before this. Had a 2017 Audi S4 Avant just before this so I'm down considerably on power now but I'm liking it so far. Just did a 520 mile round trip from North West to South East and was surprised how comfortable the car is, even in M Sport guise.
Percy. said:
d_a_n1979 said:
That looks really well; I do like an F11 touring
Thanks, I've liked the F11 shape for a long time, had a couple E91s and an F31 before this. Had a 2017 Audi S4 Avant just before this so I'm down considerably on power now but I'm liking it so far. Just did a 520 mile round trip from North West to South East and was surprised how comfortable the car is, even in M Sport guise.
My next car will be a G31 540i though I hope; a few years off yet (getting rid of the mortgage is the priority apparently)
MrBogSmith said:
Yes, yes, the grill etc.
I don't care. I love it.
I've never experienced a car that makes you feel like you're cocooned / in a bubble like this.
Even better as the rear passenger.
|https://thumbsnap.com/VDoi5VDC[/url]
It is quite big though...
[url]
Absolutely lovely! :thumbsup:I don't care. I love it.
I've never experienced a car that makes you feel like you're cocooned / in a bubble like this.
Even better as the rear passenger.
|https://thumbsnap.com/VDoi5VDC[/url]It is quite big though...
[url]Had a sit in an i7 at Bowker BMW just before Christmas whist collecting my F31 after it's MOT - what a car and amazing inside. The right sized car for someone of my build
Enjoy!
Gassing Station | BMW General | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff