Glad to hear that I inspired somebody!
To be honest, there is no difference in throttle response, biggest differences for me are ease of parking, and a little bit reduced fuel consumption. I have driven with EPS thousands of km (mls
) and I see no disadvantage of this system. Feeling of the steering is basically very similar even when pushing through mountain roads.
New belt I took from LCI E92 325i. I have pre-LCI, and EPS was not available there, but as far as I remember it was available on E90 pre-LCI. So full OEM+ mod