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      02-06-2011, 06:58 PM   #1
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Happy Chinese New Year!

Back from holidays, everyone? Happy Chinese New Year! May all of your prosper and good health to you, your family, and your F10
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Happy CNY, mlai and everyone else.

Very quite here but hope everyone driving the F10 is having fun.

My wife always complains the body roll of my F10 whenever I am driving on the South Bay side. She never complained when I was driving my E46. She said she wants to throw up, am I driving too aggressive? Honestly there is more body roll now than my old car, for those of you who has Adaptive Drive may be better.

I am seriously looking into the lowering springs or sport suspension for reduced body roll. After looking into Lacster's review on the KW V3, I am very interested. But not sure if I want to invest so much for my new car now or just switch to H&R for lower cost.

Wish kfiend can give us more review on the H&R, but this brother seems to be very busy and logged in very seldom.
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Happy new year everyone! Hope you all had a good break!
RC3 I get the same feedback from my wife and kids that riding in the F10 gives them a case of carsickness. Looking to try out the acs springs to see if it improves the floating feeling.
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Happy new year everyone! Hope you all had a good break!
RC3 I get the same feedback from my wife and kids that riding in the F10 gives them a case of carsickness. Looking to try out the acs springs to see if it improves the floating feeling.
are you planning to get our AC springs at BMW? guess it will be double of what ksquare paid for before tax since we need 4 springs and the GT only needs 2 springs. If so, I rather get the KW V3 with a bit more cost. After all, KW makes excellent suspension which the stock has no match.

for H&R, I have two quotes from 2 vendors, one $3,800, one $4,000 installed.
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I was thinking acs as I understand that the ride would be the least compromised. Yes would prefer that it's done by BMW. I'm also looking for a 1" drop nothing too dramatic. Do u know if the ride on the h and r will be harsh?
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Happy CNY everyone!
I don't know about the ride as passengers, no one has said anything.. but I do drive more restraint as chaffeur. I think body roll may be an issue if you want to drive sporty and fun.. then you may need change susp. .. can upgrade to thicker 'M' ARBs as well
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I was thinking acs as I understand that the ride would be the least compromised. Yes would prefer that it's done by BMW. I'm also looking for a 1" drop nothing too dramatic. Do u know if the ride on the h and r will be harsh?
No review from members here for AC springs installed for F10 yet (i.e. 4 springs) so I am not sure on the ride quality.

kfiend has the H&R and he said the ride quality is much better now, no more body roll. But he has the Dynamic Drive (active stabilizers) which comes with the Adaptive Drive option and I don't.

For KW V3, since we have the Dynamic Driving Control standard in Hong Kong (expect the 523i executive I suppose), it seems this no longer is an option for us as suggested by lacaster. Otherwise the function will be lost with the KW V3.

So, for the time being it seems I am leaning toward the H&R since it only cost around $4k installed.
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Happy CNY everyone!
I don't know about the ride as passengers, no one has said anything.. but I do drive more restraint as chaffeur. I think body roll may be an issue if you want to drive sporty and fun.. then you may need change susp. .. can upgrade to thicker 'M' ARBs as well
I drove the same way and speed as my E46 before. Wife never complained but I guess the E46 is lower even with the stock setup.

Another thing is my car still hesitates and jerks whenever in low speed especially in sport mode, how about yours? This is a known issue for many F10s, may be I need to see if I need to take it in to BMW if it still occurs after my run in period.
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Same to you lacster. Wish you a prosperous year of bunny.
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I drove the same way and speed as my E46 before. Wife never complained but I guess the E46 is lower even with the stock setup.

Another thing is my car still hesitates and jerks whenever in low speed especially in sport mode, how about yours? This is a known issue for many F10s, may be I need to see if I need to take it in to BMW if it still occurs after my run in period.
I felt it roll alot once when i deliberately 'throw corner' with passengers .. but i never did again. maybe adaptive drive is good option if it works for this problem.. those who have it, care to comment?

i dont have the hesitation problem at all .. only rarely when i mis-apply the peddal.. it is not an issue for me though, cuz i know what causes it to occur (for me) so i just dont do it and its fine
but i get 'ekk' screeching noise with brakes at release and to full stop.. but i t hink its misapplication as well, i have mostly adapted to this and its very minor/not an issue

u through break in yet? how many revs u gone up to?
im at 2.6k km, and i have gone up to 6600rpm .. very fun .. waiting for u, haha
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I felt it roll alot once when i deliberately 'throw corner' with passengers .. but i never did again. maybe adaptive drive is good option if it works for this problem.. those who have it, care to comment?

i dont have the hesitation problem at all .. only rarely when i mis-apply the peddal.. it is not an issue for me though, cuz i know what causes it to occur (for me) so i just dont do it and its fine
but i get 'ekk' screeching noise with brakes at release and to full stop.. but i t hink its misapplication as well, i have mostly adapted to this and its very minor/not an issue

u through break in yet? how many revs u gone up to?
im at 2.6k km, and i have gone up to 6600rpm .. very fun .. waiting for u, haha
I'm still at 0.6k km, long way from breaking in. mostly drive on weekends now so I guess it will take a while.

revs mostly under 3k but already found not many people can blow me by. but once I was climbing up the hill on sport mode. it didn't switch gear for no reason and had gone up to almost 6k rpm, that scared me and I released the gas pedal immediately. so weird.
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I'm still at 0.6k km, long way from breaking in. mostly drive on weekends now so I guess it will take a while.

revs mostly under 3k but already found not many people can blow me by. but once I was climbing up the hill on sport mode. it didn't switch gear for no reason and had gone up to almost 6k rpm, that scared me and I released the gas pedal immediately. so weird.
i drive everyday but short distances.. it will take forever!
maybe u engaged the kickdown? or if u had used pedals to +/- .. the 'program' may do that .. it happened to me a few times i got scared.. so warn u.. but no big deal, engines supposed to break in already at factory

i raced a 20yr old porsche today .. he was so into it, doing dangerous maneuvers hehe .. about the same speed, both NAs.. very fun
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i drive everyday but short distances.. it will take forever!
maybe u engaged the kickdown? or if u had used pedals to +/- .. the 'program' may do that .. it happened to me a few times i got scared.. so warn u.. but no big deal, engines supposed to break in already at factory

i raced a 20yr old porsche today .. he was so into it, doing dangerous maneuvers hehe .. about the same speed, both NAs.. very fun
racing old porsche, that's fun. where and what speed?

my brother just got a 04 911 turbo, I test drove it at Kwun Tong Overpass last week. one step on the gas paddle (may be half down) and I was doing 130+km.
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racing old porsche, that's fun. where and what speed?

my brother just got a 04 911 turbo, I test drove it at Kwun Tong Overpass last week. one step on the gas paddle (may be half down) and I was doing 130+km.
MK/waterloo rd.
from traffic light, i rev up quickly, then slow down for pederstrians, then he knows im racing, i can hear the 2 engines ... also hes old, so lose HP hehe, and passenger, both rev up to 6k .. u can hear .. haha so exciting. but only for 2 blocks cuz i have to turn

porche turbo r crazy la .. is that 420/430hp? i was at a light with a new turbo around 06' and it flew away like i wasnt even moving .. and it had a passenger.. and it was SILENT .. those things dont make any noise! or prob he wasnt past 3k rpm

how do u like to drive it? is it your taste?
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911 turbo is a beast, his is a previous 996 model. very rustic and raw. certainly no problem on body roll, planted on the road like no others can.

of course not as comfy and full of gadgets like the F10.
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