[tlow98]

The door unlock button in the center console. Terrible location.

[ewicky]

Originally Posted by Efthreeoh

So seriously, what do you like about your car? You don't even like the gearing and unlaiden feel of the rear of the car when it is near 50/50 weight balance even with x-drive? LOL.

According to the BMW spec sheet, it's 54.7/45.3. I believe that's probably accurate. And it wouldn't feel bad if the back had weaker springs and softer dampers. The compromise there is then it wouldn't be able to carry as much before resting on the bumps haha. Note: weaker rear springs would fix my rake complaint too

And the gearing truly is off by today's standards. In 2000 with an NA engine, it makes sense. In 2007 with a twin turbo, it makes no sense.

I love the responsiveness of the steering. And I love the weakness of the power steering ("stiffness" of the steering)
I love the power and throttle response.
I love the sound system.
I love the style, inside and out.
I love the adaptive HIDs.
I love xDrive.
I love ZF auto trans.
I love the HVAC.
I love working on the car.
I love the visibility.
I love the quiet ride.
I love the lack of body roll.
I love all the coding and flashing.
I love the tuner scene (JuiceBox!)
I love the controls and simplicity of the electronics operations.
I love all the lights (door handle, angel eyes, center console ambience, etc.)
I love the instrument cluster (real gauges not LCD/OLED. hidden cruise control needle. backlighting is off when the lights are off. simple layout)
I love the ease of retrofits, including MOST add-ons.
I love the leather quality.
I love the BMW smell.
I love the handling.
I love all the electric goodies.
I love how fast the heated seats heat.
I love how soon the heat comes from HVAC on cold start.
I love the pushbutton start.
I love the small keyfob.
I love the glovebox flashlight.
I love the DTC and full-off modes.
I love the one-touch and anti-trap on all windows and sunroof.
I love the double-locking door locks.
I love the exhaust sound (w/ golf tee)
I love that the windows roll all the way down.
I love that the FM antennae are built into the rear windscreen, so no big whip
I love the sharkfin.
I love the way the trunk lid hinges.
I love the safety features, including airbags everywhere, crumple zones, impact bars, auto-cut electrical, etc.
I love having heated, dimming, power-folding mirrors.
I love the built-in garage door opener and compass.
I love the "transflective" iDrive display (CCC only), that gets easier to read with direct daylight, instead of difficult.
I love that it isn't a touchscreen.
I love the parked car ventilation, timer, and rest/heat features.

Oh, the list goes on.

[gritty66]

I'll second the door unlock button, the cold gong, and the cupholders to this point. Once I get it back from inspection I'll likely find other things but overall I'm still head over heels for how this thing moves.

[Jesda]

Type 157 E93 wheels are SUPER fragile. Absurdly delicate. I had to replace/repair mine several times before I gave up and went aftermarket.

No dip stick.

The rainsense wipers are not very effective. I do have new Pilkington glass. Rainsense works wonderfully in my Cadillac Seville.

Gaskets made of used bubble gum.

That stupid turn signal lever.

I don't mind CCC iDrive. The biggest target of early complaints turned out to be perfectly adequate.

I can't find an ideal seating position with the comfort seats.

[nsjames]

Originally Posted by vbp6us

My auto wipers work fine. I used them on the way to work today in heavy rain and they would speed up and down at the right time based on the intensity of the rain.

I won't complain about things I can fix on this car. Here are the things I can't fix (easily at least):

1) Peeling interior door handle and steering wheel at 70k miles
2) Passenger door handle melting and leaving residue on the passenger's hand

the door handle bits are available for cheaps. I replaced all of mine. really improved the cars interior.
$20 a pop on ebay. Search "3 series door pull"
you've got to drill out the plstic melted rivets, new pull comes with washers and self tappers to reinstall. Been fine for months now.
Edit:
straight from china
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1x-eige-Inn....c100005.m1851
$17 shipped.

Originally Posted by TheMidnightNarwhal

AFAIK AWD cars you want to have same tires with same wear for proper function.



Waaa you can code out double handle pull? What entry is it?

you can not have more than 1% difference in rolling circumference from the front to the back, or you will burn the clutches in the transfercase.

Originally Posted by Efthreeoh

I found a flat aux cord at Wall Greens. Works great.

I ran mine up into the ashtray, because my phone fits perfectly in the open ashtray bit and I use the power point there. No smoking in my car, so I just use the ashtray to store the aux and USB cable.

[mecheng77]

I love many more things than I hate. But I agree
I wish I had intermittent wipers and while the seat support is decent except in the lumber area and they are not comfortable. The base seats shouldn’t suck.
And why do you need to code everything you replace

[Efthreeoh]

Originally Posted by nsjames

I have a brand new windshield and have reinitialized it.
still sucks. Next thing is to attempt recoding it's sensitivity range.

The one on my wife's volvo has always worked flawlessly, and it has an original 2004 windshield.


My gripe, in addition to those mentioned, leaky washer bottle.
and the fact that the triangle warning remains in the cluster after it notifies you that it's low.

What I observed over a long period of time is when the car was new the system worked really good. I remember noting to myself on one drive early on with maybe 3,000 miles on the clock, in a decent rain storm, how predictive they wiped. Even in light rain they worked well. As miles gained on the windshield and it became more pitted the sensing didn't work very well. I reinitialized the system a few times and it improved, but never back to new. I noticed that at night on dark roads it worked pretty well, but any oncoming traffic with headlights, made the system stop working.

I replaced the windshield an Safelite a few years ago and reinitialized the system. It worked better for a awhile, but again, not new. I've since gone another 100,000 miles of accumulated windshield pitting and the sensing is back to being sporadic and ill-performing.

[John 070]

Originally Posted by nsjames

you can not have more than 1% difference in rolling circumference from the front to the back, or you will burn the clutches in the transfercase.

This doesn't seem plausible, because a new tire, if 11/32 (many are only 8-9 today), at 10/32, that's 9%. a FWD car that doesn't have its tires rotated on time can easily be off by more. Not sure about AWD but it still would mean rotations pretty often to make sure they don't get off by 1%.

[feuer]

Originally Posted by delmarco

Wait what one tire had a leak (which the shop couldn't find-already a bad sign)
so the told you to replace all tires to remedy the leak on the one tire?

strange

That isn't strange. That is an amazing up selling. Owner of that vehicle is...well you get it.

[feuer]

Originally Posted by Pladi

Small trunk for a luxury sedan... Leg room is pretty bad too in the back seats.

BMWs have always been small on the inside comparing to other makes that are same size on the out side. However, nothing luxury about 335i . Is spartan compared to other makes.

[dauble2k5]

- The seatbelt arm
- The wiper switch and knowing if they're on or not
- No dipstick

[tlow98]

Originally Posted by John 070

This doesn't seem plausible, because a new tire, if 11/32 (many are only 8-9 today), at 10/32, that's 9%. a FWD car that doesn't have its tires rotated on time can easily be off by more. Not sure about AWD but it still would mean rotations pretty often to make sure they don't get off by 1%.

Total diameter. Not last inch diameter of the tire.

[chadw77]

I don't like how hard the center armrest is. I also am not a fan of the cruise control stalk. For some reason it just very intuitive for me.

[e90yyc]

Count me among the few who actually like the setup of our wiper stalks.

It would be nice if it remembered the last setting (ON), but on the newer vehicles where auto is actually a position and not a button, there’s no way to trigger a single wipe of the windshield (down press on stalk) without taking it out of AUTO, and then having to put it back into AUTO mode...

Door lock switch in middle of dash is dumb AF. Thankfully I coded door unlock with key removal.

[nsjames]

Originally Posted by John 070

This doesn't seem plausible, because a new tire, if 11/32 (many are only 8-9 today), at 10/32, that's 9%. a FWD car that doesn't have its tires rotated on time can easily be off by more. Not sure about AWD but it still would mean rotations pretty often to make sure they don't get off by 1%.

circumference, not diameter.

unless you want to burn the clutches in the VTG.
or blow up the front diff.

venture into the xdrive forum and search around for staggered and mismatched tire stories and how it costs thousands.