New Car: BMW E46 330Ci
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Other than trying them on the day I picked the car up, I've not touched the drivers-side heated seat button.
The GF uses it almost all the time though :/
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Had heated seats on my ST220, don't have them on my E39 and TBH I did miss them during the winter months. Its a nice luxury to have but hardly an essential. Mrs Gunnz was never that impressed by the heated seats anyway.
Lovely example btw. Awesome ride for a 19 yr old.
Lovely example btw. Awesome ride for a 19 yr old.
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I'm inclined to agree with this statement. I had a manual 330i at 22 and that felt about the right age to equip myself with such weaponry.
At 19 I had 68bhp at my disposal and drove like a hoon. This wouldn't have been any different if it was a 330i, but the ramifications would have been.
Do you think you'd have been more likely to lose a 330i than a 68bhp car?
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probably. I had my non turbo supra when I was 20 and binned it.
An e46 should have more in the way of assistance mind.
Even with DSC off, the E46 (and E36 for that matter) platforms are that progressive and communicative, you can get them balls out sideways (not saying you should on a public road however), and still reign them back in.
My 330d: Get in, engine on, DSC off, drive.
My 330d: Get in, engine on, DSC off, drive.
I'd like to think that I wouldn't have but I feel the chances would have been greater.
First off, PMKeates was being tongue in cheek, as he had a 330i at 19.
I had a remapped to 265BHP Leon Cupra R at 19 and still drove it like a loon.
Ah!
Yours must have been a little pricey on insurance though?!
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At 19 this was my set up;
- get in
- engine on
- try to race everything
- fail
- cry
I've never paid more than £900 for insurance on anything other than my first year of driving at 17 with a nasty piece of 1997 Vauxhall Corsa!
Although I have just realised I was 20 when I got the Cupra R, not 19.
Probably hardly any different, if at all. As para said, the car is very easy to drive quickly, very forgiving, and with the driver aids on is going to do everything it can to deal with hamfistedness.
That's not bad going - most I chucked at insurance was my first year, I shelled out £1,200 for a 1990 Micra, I think that was the MA10S engine with a killer 52bhp.
Yeah thinking back the car is forgiving - having little to compare it to performance wise it's not immediately evident to me.
Where the power makes the difference and would have been highly likely to land me in a hedge at 19 is the fact that it's easy to get up to really, really innapropriate speeds for the next corner if you have poor judgement (which is likely). Safety systems can only do so much.
I still managed to find a tree in a 115bhp car mind you and the e46 does have some excellent restraint systems - the terrible tyres that are currently on this want to kill me every day it rains and the car just sorts it out.
I still managed to find a tree in a 115bhp car mind you and the e46 does have some excellent restraint systems - the terrible tyres that are currently on this want to kill me every day it rains and the car just sorts it out.