Brakes

mrk said:
Now I have to force my arms tight on the wheel unless I want my body to fly forwards into the seatbelt if I brake heavily!

Confidence inspiring braking performance though.
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You do worry me sometimes with your comments :p
 
DS2500 front, Redstuff rear. Just tried to brake as lightly as I could for the first couple of hundred miles. I try not to lean too heavily on the brakes anyway in day to day driving - if I can engine brake most of the speed off on the way to a roundabout I usually will unless I'm in a hooliganish mood and want to stop at the last second (my commute involves quite a few traffic lighted dual carriageway roundabouts). After this wearing in phase the first time I needed to stop unexpectedly I was very pleasantly surprised with the brake performance :D
 
I think it's more that you have admitted to having zero torso strength ;)

No matter what discs and pads you put on your e46, you'll never have stellar braking performance, yet your body seems unable to stay upright under hard braking?

Oddly I've never had this problem in the LCR, a car renowned for being utterly overkill in the braking department.
 
Admittedly I am skinnier than most.

But my post won't change from the above. Braking heavily from high speed does force yourself to keep hold of something, in my case, the wheel...
 
mrk said:
Oh it wasn't poor, it was still stopping quicker than the outgoing pads and discs of course but it was not as face hurling in power until after around that mileage! Now I have to force my arms tight on the wheel unless I want my body to fly forwards into the seatbelt if I brake heavily!

Confidence inspiring braking performance though.
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Sometimes reading your posts feels like you are driving an M3 CSL with APs fitted:p

I doubt your standard BMW is going to have such braking performance that you are hurled towards your windscreen.
 
mrk said:
Oh it wasn't poor, it was still stopping quicker than the outgoing pads and discs of course but it was not as face hurling in power until after around that mileage! Now I have to force my arms tight on the wheel unless I want my body to fly forwards into the seatbelt if I brake heavily!

Confidence inspiring braking performance though.
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You must have some awesome carbon ceramics or not weigh much.
 
Some of you do love taking things out of context don't you :p

My brakes are strong, deal with it :)
 
mrk said:
Some of you do love taking things out of context don't you :p
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Where as you never exaggerate or post utter twaddle do you?

It's quite simple, a stock non M (and even the normal M3 IMO) e46 doesn't have the braking performance to throw you forward requiring you to "hold on to something with your arms locked" in order to save yourself from being flung forward.

mrk said:
My brakes are strong, deal with it :)
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Nowhere near as much as you make them out to be, they aren't, deal with it.
 
I have to disagree with you there.

I've not exaggerated anything, not today and not in the past and I'm sorry if you or some others feel the opposite and you're entitled to your own opinions of course. I've always maintained that if you're that convinced I'm wrong then take a trip down and see for yourself. I'm not exactly a shifty bloke :confused:
 
Well, unless your spine is made out of a pipe cleaner and your bodily muscles rival those of a new-born, and somehow magically, your 318Ci manages to utterly decimate my old 330d at raw braking performance (or even my LCR, but there is no chance of that, at least not in this dimension), there is no way you aren't over-reacting/exaggerating your "arms locked" OMG braking performance.
 
Seems the only person over reacting here is you going by your tone my friend.
 
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