Plug-in Tuners detection

teaston · 03-13-2019, 05:16 PM

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There have been a couple on here that had issues and had to fight to get cars fixed under warranty. Both that I can remember, were told to quit posting on here by their lawyers.

To play, you have to be willing to pay.

Was that for piggy backs or remaps though?

teaston · 03-13-2019, 05:33 PM

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All good info.

On that note, I hooked up my draggy just to get a baseline before even thinking of putting on any mods..

Might not even need any extras...

I have 800 miles on the car, 3rd time doing a full 0-60 run, traction partially off (single push on the button), Launch control did not click on , I think it needs the first service or something for that?

Brake-torqued it to 3K, launched and here is the result.

That's a really good stock time. Mine ran consistent 4.0 on a JB4 Map 5 tune. Your DA must be really low where you live.

That's good for stock, on quite a slope I notice though?

Here's what my tuned diesel can do:

MechX3M40i · 03-13-2019, 06:28 PM

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I think the car has another 0.01-2 in it. The initial off the line had a little turbo lag in it.

I'm beyond impressed by the stock performance.

My f-pace S that jaguar bought back and (thank goodness) allowed me to get the bmw now, had 380hp amd was nowhere near as quick.

I'm at pretty much sea level here in CT. Temp is around 40f.

Great run time, thanks for sharing. I lived in CT for almost 6 years and the whole state is full of cars and traffic. Great that you can find an empty straight road to have some fun

By the way, I read that you need to warm up car before launch control can be done. I saw you mentioned having trouble getting it activated... either that, or the car stopped you from doing that before break in is complete

maximumeffort · 03-13-2019, 07:30 PM

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Great run time, thanks for sharing. I lived in CT for almost 6 years and the whole state is full of cars and traffic. Great that you can find an empty straight road to have some fun

By the way, I read that you need to warm up car before launch control can be done. I saw you mentioned having trouble getting it activated... either that, or the car stopped you from doing that before break in is complete

It was plenty warmed up after an hour of driving before.
As far as I understand to enable Launch control, put the car in Sports Plus mode, mash the brake pedal, push the traction control button, put car in 'D', slap it into 'S' , mash the gas, and release within 3 seconds. It never shows 'Launch Control' in the dash board but launches harder than just mashing the gas and getting the turbo lag.

There are lots of nice flat long places to do some runs on around here, besides my company's huge parking lot . LOL. I wouldn't do this on a public or traffic ridden road. It does have a little uphill slope but draggy only shows 1.73% so it's almost nothing.

If this is how the car is not broken in yet without Launch Control on fully, I am not sure it needs any more mods even stock. LOL

chicagofan00 · 03-13-2019, 09:01 PM

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Great run time, thanks for sharing. I lived in CT for almost 6 years and the whole state is full of cars and traffic. Great that you can find an empty straight road to have some fun

By the way, I read that you need to warm up car before launch control can be done. I saw you mentioned having trouble getting it activated... either that, or the car stopped you from doing that before break in is complete

It was plenty warmed up after an hour of driving before.
As far as I understand to enable Launch control, put the car in Sports Plus mode, mash the brake pedal, push the traction control button, put car in 'D', slap it into 'S' , mash the gas, and release within 3 seconds. It never shows 'Launch Control' in the dash board but launches harder than just mashing the gas and getting the turbo lag.

There are lots of nice flat long places to do some runs on around here, besides my company's huge parking lot . LOL. I wouldn't do this on a public or traffic ridden road. It does have a little uphill slope but draggy only shows 1.73% so it's almost nothing.

If this is how the car is not broken in yet without Launch Control on fully, I am not sure it needs any more mods even stock. LOL

Launch control per the manual.

marcati · 03-14-2019, 09:31 AM

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Holy cow, that is quick! The X3M and X4M should definitely under 4 seconds then. I'm at around 700 miles now (and adhering to the break in recommendations) but I can't wait to floor it. I'm still surprised it is hard to find dyno charts of stock M40i's as rumor is they make 355 to the wheels...

It's so hard to keep it tame during the break in period! Tons of fun afterwards though. You will be having even more fun soon enough.

What break-in period?? LOL I drove mine up to 207kmh in the first week I had the car. Have had her up to 223 in the last two weeks. I have 3200kmh in 6 weeks. Lots of fun to drive :-)

marcati · 03-14-2019, 09:33 AM

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Great run time, thanks for sharing. I lived in CT for almost 6 years and the whole state is full of cars and traffic. Great that you can find an empty straight road to have some fun

By the way, I read that you need to warm up car before launch control can be done. I saw you mentioned having trouble getting it activated... either that, or the car stopped you from doing that before break in is complete

It was plenty warmed up after an hour of driving before.
As far as I understand to enable Launch control, put the car in Sports Plus mode, mash the brake pedal, push the traction control button, put car in 'D', slap it into 'S' , mash the gas, and release within 3 seconds. It never shows 'Launch Control' in the dash board but launches harder than just mashing the gas and getting the turbo lag.

There are lots of nice flat long places to do some runs on around here, besides my company's huge parking lot . LOL. I wouldn't do this on a public or traffic ridden road. It does have a little uphill slope but draggy only shows 1.73% so it's almost nothing.

If this is how the car is not broken in yet without Launch Control on fully, I am not sure it needs any more mods even stock. LOL

Launch control per the manual.

Wow! Never knew the car had launch control!!! Can''t wait to test that this weekend. Woo-hoo!!!

maximumeffort · 03-18-2019, 06:40 PM

Next week I'll be at about 1500miles, I'll take it in for the first oil change and then head to do some full out 0-60 and 1/4m runs.
I honestly think the car can do 4.1 seconds 0-60 bone stock with a better launch than last time.

marcati · 03-19-2019, 01:41 AM

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Next week I'll be at about 1500miles, I'll take it in for the first oil change and then head to do some full out 0-60 and 1/4m runs.
I honestly think the car can do 4.1 seconds 0-60 bone stock with a better launch than last time.

My X4 doesn't even have launch control according to my onboard manual

verysideways · 03-19-2019, 08:55 AM

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My X4 doesn't even have launch control according to my onboard manual

I think it's only the M cars and M Performance cars which get launch control.
Is yours an M40i or M40d? Or one of the other engines?

maximumeffort · 03-19-2019, 02:17 PM

Mine is an X3 and it's the M40i, it does have Launch Control.

Your X4 with M40i should have it as well.

muzzalad · 03-19-2019, 03:02 PM

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I think it's only the M cars and M Performance cars which get launch control.
Is yours an M40i or M40d? Or one of the other engines?

It's popping up in my 30d driver guide, which I was quite surprised at - thought the same as you.
Haven't tested it yet as haven't hit 1200 miles though.

marcati · 03-21-2019, 05:03 AM

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My X4 doesn't even have launch control according to my onboard manual

I think it's only the M cars and M Performance cars which get launch control.
Is yours an M40i or M40d? Or one of the other engines?

I have the X20d M Sport. It's the only option in my country unfortunately.

I wonder if there's any way to unlock it with coding?

maximumeffort · 03-21-2019, 05:12 PM

I just went through my break-in oil change yesterday.

Did 2 runs today to 'test' her but it was a bit wet so did not push for more.

Launch Control was active both times.
I'm not posting the dragy screens as I can do better I think and also the 1/4m run shows an elevation drop after the 1/8th mile, even though I was on the same flat parking lot as always.

1st run I got 0-60 of 4.18s (3.93s with 1ft rollout)but did not press 1/4.

2nd run I got 0-60 of 4.33s (4.1s with 1ft rollout) and 12.59@108.71mph
This was with a bit of turbo lag I could feel.

These cars are insane stock. No need for any tune. I seriously think that it's a 12.5s 1/4m car stock and can get to 4.1s 0-60.

I think I'm the quickest X3 on dragy at least from the leaderboards I can see.

ParadigmDawg · 03-21-2019, 05:35 PM

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I just went through my break-in oil change yesterday.

Did 2 runs today to 'test' her but it was a bit wet so did not push for more.

Launch Control was active both times.
I'm not posting the dragy screens as I can do better I think and also the 1/4m run shows an elevation drop after the 1/8th mile, even though I was on the same flat parking lot as always.

1st run I got 0-60 of 4.18s (3.93s with 1ft rollout)but did not press 1/4.

2nd run I got 0-60 of 4.33s (4.1s with 1ft rollout) and 12.59@108.71mph
This was with a bit of turbo lag I could feel.

These cars are insane stock. No need for any tune. I seriously think that it's a 12.5s 1/4m car stock and can get to 4.1s 0-60.

I think I'm the quickest X3 on dragy at least from the leaderboards I can see.

Good runs, you are seeing how quick they heat-sink. That's the biggest downfall on the performance of these cars.

I haven't pushed my AMG yet but on the one 0-60 I did, it ran a 3.43(3.3 roll-out) after a 150 mile drive with no cool down period and a DA of 3,300 ft. Heat-sink doesn't seem to be a factor on this car but it does have 2 radiators and 1 transmission cooler so that plus a bigger motor helps a lot.

maximumeffort · 03-21-2019, 05:40 PM

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Good runs, you are seeing how quick they heat-sink. That's the biggest downfall on the performance of these cars.

I haven't pushed my AMG yet but on the one 0-60 I did, it ran a 3.43(3.3 roll-out) after a 150 mile drive with no cool down period and a DA of 3,300 ft. Heat-sink doesn't seem to be a factor on this car but it does have 2 radiators and 1 transmission cooler so that plus a bigger motor helps a lot.

WOW. What AMG do you have? That's sick at a 3300DA.

ParadigmDawg · 03-21-2019, 05:43 PM

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WOW. What AMG do you have? That's sick at a 3300DA.

We are cross posting in 2 different threads...lol...

maximumeffort · 03-21-2019, 05:47 PM

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We are cross posting in 2 different threads...lol...

LOL, yeah. Had to update that thread.

Is that stock? I was thinking of a C43, maybe a C63 but did not like the nav and voice controlsystem of the Benz.

At least I know not to mess with one now.

ParadigmDawg · 03-21-2019, 05:53 PM

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LOL, yeah. Had to update that thread.

Is that stock? I was thinking of a C43, maybe a C63 but did not like the nav and voice controlsystem of the Benz.

At least I know not to mess with one now.

Yes, that's stock. AMG list the 0-60 as a 3.6 and 1/4 of 11.7 but I know plenty of people running 3.2's stock and 11.5 1/4s. It is faster than their GTR 0-60 and it owns the fastest lap at Nurburgring for a SUV.

Yep, I get the tech part. AMGs are usually even 2 years behind on tech than the normal Mercs but you are just paying for performance.

maximumeffort · 03-21-2019, 06:04 PM

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Yes, that's stock. AMG list the 0-60 as a 3.6 and 1/4 of 11.7 but I know plenty of people running 3.2's stock and 11.5 1/4s. It is faster than their GTR 0-60 and it owns the fastest lap at Nurburgring for a SUV.

Yep, I get the tech part. AMGs are usually even 2 years behind on tech than the normal Mercs but you are just paying for performance.

Sounds like they're underrated like the BMW's. Nice man, good luck with that beast too.

GT500R · 03-21-2019, 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by maximumeffort

I just went through my break-in oil change yesterday.

Did 2 runs today to 'test' her but it was a bit wet so did not push for more.

Launch Control was active both times.
I'm not posting the dragy screens as I can do better I think and also the 1/4m run shows an elevation drop after the 1/8th mile, even though I was on the same flat parking lot as always.

1st run I got 0-60 of 4.18s (3.93s with 1ft rollout)but did not press 1/4.

2nd run I got 0-60 of 4.33s (4.1s with 1ft rollout) and 12.59@108.71mph
This was with a bit of turbo lag I could feel.

These cars are insane stock. No need for any tune. I seriously think that it's a 12.5s 1/4m car stock and can get to 4.1s 0-60.

I think I'm the quickest X3 on dragy at least from the leaderboards I can see.

2nd quickest

But with a tune only you should see 11's easy if you are hitting 0-60 in 4.18 stock.

I went down .6 seconds with a tune prior to trans tune and updated ecu tune, now I am almost a full second faster then stock.

maximumeffort · 03-21-2019, 09:11 PM

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2nd quickest

But with a tune only you should see 11's easy if you are hitting 0-60 in 4.18 stock.

I went down .6 seconds with a tune prior to trans tune and updated ecu tune, now I am almost a full second faster then stock.

Sorry, I meant for a bone stock car. I did a quick calculation and my DA is -300 here today when I ran her.
I just checked all of the online dragy history of all ET's.
Stock mine is the quickest. WTH!?

Can others post up their stock #'s? I wonder if the 19" wheels have less unsprung weight and affect the MPH so much.

I see one X3M40i on there that ran 11.98@109.36 from RI with an MP Tune.

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maximumeffort Private 19 Rep 57 Posts Drives: 2019 BMW x3 M40i Join Date: Mar 2019 Location: NJ USA iTrader: (0)	Next week I'll be at about 1500miles, I'll take it in for the first oil change and then head to do some full out 0-60 and 1/4m runs. I honestly think the car can do 4.1 seconds 0-60 bone stock with a better launch than last time.
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maximumeffort Private 19 Rep 57 Posts Drives: 2019 BMW x3 M40i Join Date: Mar 2019 Location: NJ USA iTrader: (0)	Mine is an X3 and it's the M40i, it does have Launch Control. Your X4 with M40i should have it as well.
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maximumeffort Private 19 Rep 57 Posts Drives: 2019 BMW x3 M40i Join Date: Mar 2019 Location: NJ USA iTrader: (0)	I just went through my break-in oil change yesterday. Did 2 runs today to 'test' her but it was a bit wet so did not push for more. Launch Control was active both times. I'm not posting the dragy screens as I can do better I think and also the 1/4m run shows an elevation drop after the 1/8th mile, even though I was on the same flat parking lot as always. 1st run I got 0-60 of 4.18s (3.93s with 1ft rollout)but did not press 1/4. 2nd run I got 0-60 of 4.33s (4.1s with 1ft rollout) and 12.59@108.71mph This was with a bit of turbo lag I could feel. These cars are insane stock. No need for any tune. I seriously think that it's a 12.5s 1/4m car stock and can get to 4.1s 0-60. I think I'm the quickest X3 on dragy at least from the leaderboards I can see.
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