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12-12-2011, 07:36 PM | #24 |
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some day i may look at mine, although i use sport mode in chassis only all the time, i know i feel it in the suspension and steering minute I turn on sport mode so I know DHP is there.
still wishing for a way to make sport mode the default. so one question i've never gotten answered, what if one orders an X3 without SAP or MSport but with DHP? - or DHP on a 28i which doesn't have sport mode transmission... The rocker switch comes w/ the sport mode transmission in either sport package on a 35i. without the rocker, but with DHP, is the tighter steering control and damper control on always, or is there a way to control it from idrive?
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12-13-2011, 04:19 AM | #25 |
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In the UK you have to add Performance Control (the rocker switch £130) as a prerequisite to Variable Damper Control (£930). I know because that is what I have done. So my 3.0d SE will not have sport steering (some UK reviewers don't like it) but will have adjustment to throttle response, gear shifts and dampers as well as DSC by pressing the rocker switch to change modes.
I don't have sport suspension either. I thought there might not be much point with adjustable dampers fitted. |
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12-13-2011, 06:57 AM | #27 | |
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All automatics have a sport mode transmission (engaged by pushing the lever to the left) but this is different to the dynamic drive control normal/sport mode transmission changes
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If you have an MSport you get Performance Control as standard (for the steering and transmission). |
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12-13-2011, 02:37 PM | #30 |
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Something seems to have changed with the UK 2012 specs.
X3 April 2011 Brochure - p57 - under picture of Rocker Switches' Dynamic Drive Control with 3 mode settings......Choose between the settings or change accelerator and power steering. (Im conjuction with VDC or 8 speed auto) X3 October 2011 Brochure - 57 - under picture of rocker switches' Drive Performance Control with 3 modes........enables adjustment of steering, throttle, engine response & suspension. Included with VDC or Sport auto transmission. ie Drive Dynamic Control has been renamed Drive Performance Control and the new brochure seems to be saying that you will only get the rocker switch with a 35D with Sport auto or by ordering VDC. Or is this BMW UK playing games? |
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You'd also have to get it with VSS or you'd have no way to change the steering tightness. All that's changed is the introduction of the 35d which allows you to get it without VSS I assume
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12-17-2011, 08:11 PM | #32 |
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Finally got to utilize the car today. Said I would take a pic of one of the shocks, and I've attached the pic here. Not sure what I was pointing at, or if this pic is of any use, but here you go...
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Thanks for attempting. It appears you do not have DHP, although it's possible the cylinder is obscured by the suspension arms. What you need to look for is what Lotus7 circled. It's that cylinder sticking out of the shock body. No cylinder, no DHP.
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