New car

[V8Granite]

The Birds package is Bilstein dampers and Eibach springs, to their own specification.

I think the BMW M-Sport diff is a decent chunk of money. It only locks up to 25% and is clutch based, so will wear out/lose locking ability over time.

I did lots of reading and research on this kit, before I bought the car.

It's what dissuaded me from an adaptively damped M140i - it sounds corny, but if you have a decently set up passive suspension, you shouldn't really need adaptive.

Or something.

I do tend to keep my cars for a long time, and I can't see there ever being an attainable, RWD, 6 cylinder car again.

At the moment, I'm not planning anymore mods.

Having said that, with all the particulate filters etc, it does sound a bit muted...

I think adaptive suspension mainly works on high cars or particularly heavy cars.

Sounds like a great package, good value too considering what has been changed and the change in the drive.

Dave!

[DaveE]

Fitted some new shift paddles yesterday.

The stock ones are quite small and dumpy looking, and quite hard to reach if you turned the steering wheel.

I'm not a fan of carbon fibre trinkets and it was pretty hard to find non-carbon options.

In the end, I took a punt on some of these from AliExpress.

They were only £39 (delivered) and took about 5 minutes to install.

They look and feel really good, and work fine.