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Does the 8.5” wide 792M rear wheel with 255/35 tires look any different than the 8” square setup? The 8” rear wheel/tire setup on my 2023 M440i looks too narrow to me and am wondering if the 8.5 setup looks any better.
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I would have liked this car to come with 9" and 10" wheels with 255/35 and 275/35 or some similar combination. There are aftermarket high quality wheel solutions to solve this issue of course.
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All around, it's a surprisingly capable, comfortable, great handling sedan with plenty of power (i.e. 116mph 1/4 mile trap speed is serious power to me and all I'd ever need or care for in a street car) coupled with outstanding gas mileage at the same time. RWD with the awesome M-LSD is what sold us on this car versus being forced to go with the G80 and the compromises that entails, but we did seriously consider the G80 just to be able to get a 6MT and slicktop (carbon roof). I say RWD since in many markets the M340i is only available with xDrive. I have been looking at Apex 9 or 9.5 wheels and 265/35-19 square. I might actually go that route once Michelin finally releases the PS S5 whenever that ends up being...
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What about the adaptive m suspension?Are you happy with the ride and handling with the dampers set to sport compared to the M340i you did the test drive in with the standard m sport suspension? |
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So far, yeah, I don't think the M adaptive even in sport+ is very "stiff" per se...but we're most recently used to much firmer riding cars. I'm having a hard time contrasting the test drive versus this car since it's been about 3 months ago...would really need to back-to-back drive them. The difference between comfort, sport and sport+ isn't dramatic, but I'm fine with sport or sport+ for typical driving. Jumping into the E90 M3 (mods are larger front and rear sway bars, 9.5/10.5 wheels) reveals that car is much firmer/abrupt, much louder, steering feels wonderful, etc, but as far as comfort goes or comfort-handling compromise, the M340i wins huge...especially on the compromise equation. The G-series chassis from BMW are a significant jump forward in most all regards imo.
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Yeah, you're right. I was thinking of how I setup Sport Individual by selecting sport+ for everything, but thinking back on it now, sport+ was the max setting for the engine and transmission while the suspension and I think steering just has two choices (comfort and sport). I'd have to go look at it again to confirm the steering only has two choices since my M2C has three for the steering...sigh.
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This is the Bridgestone tire that comes with the staggered 792s (in BMW * specification). So far from what driving I've done on them, they have excellent steering response, lots of grip and no sloppiness at all.
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I’d love to understand BMW’s decision to put such skinny tires on something with an M badge. 245’s (minimum) in rear on every 3 series going back to the E46 24 years ago and the first time they put an M badge in lieu of “sport” trim they put 225’s on 19” rims. W. T. F.
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I was searching for a used M340i specifically with 792m wheels. Never occurred to me they were not staggered like my 435i. The rears do look kinda skinny. Oh well. The car is amazing anyway.
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