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#10 of 13 Re: I love the ride quality in my car [rob34] by nkeen Nov 09, 2008 (7:28 pm)
Replying to: rob34 (Nov 08, 2008 12:37 am) On the 328i, the Contis give a slightly more compliant ride, but trade a little precision and responsiveness to the Bridgestone EL42s. I like the summer Bridgestone RE050As that come sport suspension but they don't make for an easy drive.
#11 of 13 rft problems by richardga73 Nov 12, 2008 (3:30 am)
This is an easy solution. For all you guys that dont like the rough noisy go cart ride and there must be a bunch of you since there is over 2800 responses to the rft forum complaining about the ride of these cars and love to abuse yourselves, here is a solution: Dont buy the sport suspension!!!!! These cars already are sporty enough! And you will never need the extent to which these cars perform with the sport suspension unless you are on the track and I promise you, from reading in these forums you arent ever on the track. It kills me when guys are asking how good their deals are on the finance forum and all of them say "etc, etc, etc, sport suspension" like it is an automatic option everyone has to order. These cars are sports cars!!! They dont need the additional teeth chattering stiffness! I talk to a lot of guys who had 3's before and after the horrible rft era. They tell me that the ride of the sport suspension on the pre-rft era is equal to the ride of the non-sport WITH the rft's. There is that much difference in the ride of these tires. I had a 3 with a sport susp. pre-rft and it was a rough noisy ride. I plan to purchase as my next car a 3 without the sport then after about 5K miles switch the tires to a normal summer tire. I know it is exhausting. It just seems like BMW tries to make things as hard as possible to like them. Actually, I was even hopeful about the new TL and the Maxima being a competitor enough to consider them but I dont know. If enough of us changed brands BMW would be more "Japanese like" in trying to please us fans more rather than ramming these crummy ideas down our throats! Replies to this message: fedlawman (Nov 12, 2008 9:47 am)
#12 of 13 addendum to my last message by richardga73 Nov 12, 2008 (3:39 am)
By the way, I forgot to mention my current car is a Mercedes AMG E 63. It is the perfect combination of handling and luxury. The only thing about this car that I havent gotten used to yet is the lack of tossability. I think the weight of the car is close to 4000 lbs. and I miss the tossability of the 3. But it is the ONLY thing I miss with 520hp, 480 torque and the envious stares of other people.
#13 of 13 Re: rft problems [richardga73] by fedlawman Nov 12, 2008 (9:47 am)
Replying to: richardga73 (Nov 12, 2008 3:30 am) The E90 suspension tuning was already softened by the factory to compensate for the run-flats.   Don't cripple the dynamics of your 3-series from the get go by ordering the soft suspension. Just put normal tires on it.   If the BMW is still too stiff for you, then maybe a Buick or Mercedes is a better choice.

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