[DDS2015]

Originally Posted by DDS2015

I dunno, I drove an X3 tonight with the Dynamic Dampers and I didn't notice any difference between, normal, sport, and sport

I'm skipping this option on my order. Hope this helps a little.

Come to think of it, I'm wrong. I did notice the transmission was behaving differently than expected (holding gears longer) when in sport mode. I thought it was because it was a demo and was learning too many other drivers and the useless salesman didn't say anything. Sorry for the confusion I caused, you guys are right.

[warmtoes]

Originally Posted by Dukat

Thats my plan as well.

Can the steering be adjusted independently of suspension

Not that I have seen. It's suspension and steering together.

[Nahoa]

Was surprised to find I get better mileage in Sport (transmission) when driving in heavy traffic. Wonderful excuse to use it!

[Toecutter]

Originally Posted by chillychan

LOL!! Sorry I thought you were aware of the movie...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max

Ha! It's been so long since I've seen the movie that I no longer remember most of it!

[MattUK]

Its an interesting one.. Initially I had the M Sport with the normal suspension that comes with, and as I had not been able to drive anything else with the enhanced I kept it at that.

Pretty much all the review cars that I seemed to read about in the UK press talked about having VDC and stated that the ride was good. So after a while of thinking it through I decided rather than end up with something that was maybe too hard on occasions and I wouldn't like it, I went for the VDC and deleted M Sports suspension. Was also based on feedback from people who had the X5 and didn't like it.

I've not been able to find a Sport+ though (Unless that is the option with DSC disabled?) I have Normal and Sport.. (Maybe I should read the manual)

My drive to work is through country lanes with bad roads, and the M3 never used to like those too much, so I wanted something a little more comfortable for those days where you are feeling old

Not really driven it to work yet in Sport mode all the way, but I will try once I am happy that I know what the ride feels like in normal, so will give it a few more trips, then ill post up with my personal view

[clivem2]

I sort of went through similar logic but ended up ordering the MSport with the UK standard Sport Suspension as I decided I wanted the sunroof more than the VDC - I had to stop spending....

My gut feeling was that BMW are only getting reviews with VDC so they can achieve sales of this option (which I'm sure is a good option). I can't abide soft suspension and felt the MSport must be more compliant than my E93 MSport - which was a bit to hard, due IMO to the RFTs. My F25 3.0D with sport sus is fine for me but this is a personal thing and a tought call without back-to-back driving. The perfect setup for me would probably be sport sus with real tyres (sorry, tires), not RFTs. Mine's a lease car so I can't really change the tyres, which aren't too bad but I'm sure could be better.

PS Sport+ is Sport without DSC. Just press the Sport button a 2nd time.

[Toecutter]

Help me out here -- VDC?

[sfax]

Originally Posted by Toecutter

Help me out here -- VDC?

Variable Damper Control - same as US Dynamic Damping Control.

BMW's description:

Dynamic Damping Control uses data collected by sensors throughout the BMX X3: each second, it gathers thousands of readings about the position of the steering wheel, the strength of lateral forces, wheel rotation speeds and much more. The system calculates the best possible setting for each individual wheel and continually adjusts its suspension accordingly.

[Toecutter]

Thanks

[MattUK]

Would be interested to compare them actually Clive if we had the chance.. mind you that could end up bad regretting something

[clivem2]

You're right, best not to!