Installing B16 suspension. Adaptive question:

[etropic]

I'm about to order the Bilstein B16 suspension for my 2010 E89.

I have the adaptive suspension and I'm ok with losing the adaptive dampening.

I read in another forum regarding a different newer car that adaptive suspension replacement while throwing the error on start up also prevents driving modes (sport, sport+) from being selected?

Is this true?

I've seen a lot of conversation in this forum about replacing the adaptive, and some info about coding out the errors, but no one ever mentions driving modes as an issue (just the loss of the adaptive dampening itself).

Any other considerations I should make before commit to this purchase?

Thanks!

 

[Argyll Andy]

I asked a similar type question when I had my 35iS.

There’s some answers and further links in this thread

https://z4-forum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=125649&hilit=Coded+out

 

[etropic]

I asked a similar type question when I had my 35iS.

There’s some answers and further links in this thread

Hmm I have a link to that code out article, good stuff.

I'm wondering specifically if the only draw back to NOT doing it is the error? Or does some other change come over the car as well (such as loss of ability to change drive modes) ?

 

[Pondrew]

I'm wondering specifically if the only draw back to NOT doing it is the error? Or does some other change come over the car as well (such as loss of ability to change drive modes) ?

All the driver modes work in cars without adaptive dampers (the vast majority) so can't see why it would. Surely in sport or sport+ it would be sending a signal to the hydraulic pumps but if they're not there then so be it. I would guess it would be a case of a blanking connector, or jumper cable of the (then) unused wiring to get rid of any error.

 

[etropic]

I'm wondering specifically if the only draw back to NOT doing it is the error? Or does some other change come over the car as well (such as loss of ability to change drive modes) ?

All the driver modes work in cars without adaptive dampers (the vast majority) so can't see why it would. Surely in sport or sport+ it would be sending a signal to the hydraulic pumps but if they're not there then so be it. I would guess it would be a case of a blanking connector, or jumper cable of the (then) unused wiring to get rid of any error.

Right on with the non-adaptive.
I guess I was thinking that if it was faulting, that could shut down more tangentially related systems (drive mode) since one part of it is faulting.