My Second Zed Thread (2010 E89 sDrive30i)

[Timmyboybunter]

I'm certainly no expert, but as far as my reading told me any CIC hard drive based system - which yours is - can be updated via USB in the glovebox.

If you have a 32gb drive available (or a sd card on an adapter etc) you can get as far as needing the FSC code very easily - this will at least confirm it is possible.

It would be a good idea to stream some music from the drive/card first to check it is working ok and the car will recognise it - don't forget to delete everything from the drive before putting the nav data on there.

 

[Timmyboybunter]

The USB ports seem to be made of glass, from the number I've seen that are broken reading around - so I've bought 2 small extensions which will remain plugged into them permanently:

 

[Timmyboybunter]

Clown nose delete it's looking better already!

 

[Timmyboybunter]

Also a double dollop of good news.

First, after washing the car at the weekend and it having a chance to dry in the garage, all the PDC sensors are working fine, front and rear - nothing further to do there.

Also, this one is a strange one. The ambient temperature is clearly not functioning correctly - today for example, it was reading 23 degrees in this fairly miserable grey autumn weather. I took off enough bolts and a couple of plastic panels at the front near side corner (it has clearly had a smack here at some point, scratches on the bumper and the plastic trim had popped out away from the bumper itself) to get access to the top of the sensor (the bottom of it, I presume the bit that reads the temperature, sticks through the bumper from inside to outside - you can feel it sticking out and down in a little recess) to find.....

.....another sensor just sitting inside the bumper . So, the car was connected to this additional sensor and NOT the one mounted in the bumper itself. That in itself is strange, possibly a very lazy repair. Anyway, I disconnected this loose sensor from the car wiring and sure enough, the temperature display now read a constant 40 degrees.

You know where I'm going with this don't you :lol: I plugged the wires back into the ORIGINAL sensor that is mounted perfectly happy in the bumper, checked the dashboard, and it read 13 degrees - possibly still slightly optomistic, but far more believable than 23.

Car all back together again, job done. Here's the part I removed, which seems to be identical to the one I've left in there which seems to be working fine. Baffled.

 

[Silverstar]

The car is already looking better even with no grills :lol: I would still spray WD40 on them sensors to avoid moisture attacking them again.

 

[Smartbear]

Clown nose delete it's looking better already!

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I see what you mean about the clown nose delete, only their mother can tell them apart! :lol:

Rob

 

[Timmyboybunter]

Picked up sone 2nd hand wheels tonight, so could be on for a clown shoes delete too this week

 

[Timmyboybunter]

Well, today was 25% successful.

Started well, 1st wheel swapped over - was a bit stuck on the hub but some gentle persausion with a mallet had it away. First replacement alloy on - shame to drop an inch to 17s but the wheels are in pretty good condition and as expected, look far better than the red.

On to the next wheel. 4 bolts out, the last won't budge. Arm power first, on to air gun, on to impact driver - won't budge. Don't want to use a breaker bar as I always end up snapping the damn things.

Next 2 wheels, first has another stuck bolt and the last one has 2 - so whoever last put the wheels on (2 new rear tyres at the last MOT just a few weeks ago!) has done them up way to tight.

One for the boys at my local garage then - I've been amusing them for a few years now rocking up with cars with a partially completed job for them to finish off

Clown 294 vs 17" 290



The corner of shame

 

[Timmyboybunter]

48 hours, £13 and a 750mm breaker bar later, the first stuck wheel is off.

Amazing what a bit of leverage can produce - the bolt turned with very little force.

Not enough roon in the garage to get to the other side, so will have a pop at the last 2 at the weekend.

 

[Silverstar]

The car is already looking way better!

 

[Timmyboybunter]

Thanks

Looks like it's on stilts in that photo, but it's still riding high after being jacked up at both ends. I've also ordered some cheap and cheerful center caps which will make things look a bit better.

 

[Timmyboybunter]

Completed the clown shoes delete - that breaker bar made short work of the remaining stuck bolts, most useful £13 I ever spent possibly.

Car is now looking.... normal

 

[Timmyboybunter]

Well, I held out longer than I thought I would - but got impatient so started the process earlier in the week of swapping plates/insurance over from the E85, finishing today with taxing the E89. First proper drive this afternoon around Cheddar Gorge, lucky with the weather and a lovely roof down blast.

 

[Timmyboybunter]

And another point to drive some debate

When I test drove this car, I was surprised at just how quick it felt. I know the N52 engine is 30bhp healthier than the M54 I'm used to, but performance stats/heresay suggest the added weight of the E89 means it generally feels no quicker than a pre-facelift E85 (and less quick than a N52 equipped post facelift E85 SI)

Today's first proper drive proved the point - it seems to be far stronger than the E85 it has replaced.

The food for thought bit: whilst Facebook stalking the previous owner (not sure if he's on these forums or not) I came upon the following post about my car:



Nothing in the service history to support this and only a rolling road would give any indication - but interesting none the less. I've long since ignored n/a tuning as being largely pointless, for mainstream models anyway, but I'm not sure what would be possible from this motor given port/polish/remap etc.

 

[Smartbear]

10/15 bhp at a guess? Ports are highly efficient these days so doubt there’s much ground to be made there.
Some of the apparent oomph maybe because your m54 had the original vanos seals (unless you had them changed)
They’re supposed to be in decline from 40k miles and this reduces bhp :?
Rob

 

[Timmyboybunter]

Could well be Rob - never changed the vanos seals in my ownership.

45bhp increase from standard in a n/a car seems way, way optimistic and would cost a bucket load of money to achieve. My E89 is an auto too, possibly the difference in drive to my manual E85 is throwing my bum dyno out. I did have the heated seats on and they're damn fierce - maybe I scorched something :?

 

[Zed Baron]

Well, I held out longer than I thought I would - but got impatient so started the process earlier in the week of swapping plates/insurance over from the E85, finishing today with taxing the E89. First proper drive this afternoon around Cheddar Gorge, lucky with the weather and a lovely roof down blast.

car is looking good, wouldn't recognise it from when you got it

 

[q-man]

305hp is possible I think, but it needs to rev well past over 7k. They say mapping. headers + exhaust and milvs can be maybe +280 mark. Headwork should ad more, but you have to add revs and you will lose bottom torque.

Not know how, but 8200rpm they claim. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwx50j1e9XI[/youtube]



Also https://www.1addicts.com/forums/showthread.php?p=9529112 330bhp, but not stock ecu, ITB, headwork, cams etc etc. And of course quite experimental race engine. Limit might be near on this.


From this post above how they got 299 mark "To get the power we first removed all the standard wiring looms, ECU's, fused boxes etc and fitted a custom loom with Motec M800 ECU and Motec PDM 30.

ARP con rod bolts, E36 throttle bodies on custom inlet manifold, race headers as used by BMW South Africa and a lightened flywheel.

This gave 299bhp at 7200rpm."

If we look at this, tune, milvs, headers and headwork with maybe bit optimistic dyno, might get to 300 mark. Easy... no, cheap... no, possible... yes.

 

[Timmyboybunter]

car is looking good, wouldn't recognise it from when you got it

Thanks trying to keep to minimal spend on this one as I went a bit nuts on the E85. Normal alloys, new (fake!) center caps and replacement front grilles is pretty much all it has taken but I'm please with how it looks now.

305hp is possible I think

Thanks for sharing - interesting reading. I think we can conclude it's very likely my car has NOT had that much work thrown at it

 

[Silverstar]

Probably the last owner had it remapped and they must have told him he would gain 20 or 30 BHP more but in reality a remap on a NA would just make it drive better by eliminating throttle lag etc hence making it feel quicker, maybe? I haven't driven an E85 so can't compare but my 30i certainly isn't lacking. Your car is now looking great by the way.