The BMW UUC Digest Volume 3 : Issue 272 : "text" Format Messages in this Issue: Re: e90 330i impressions & misc. ramblings
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:57:45 -0400 From: Neil Maller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: e90 330i impressions & misc. ramblings Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 9/27/06 10:20 AM, "Jason Kay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What happened to the great BMW steering? (Electronic assist, unfortunately) See: <http://www.realoem.com/bmw/partgrp.do?model=VB33&mospid=48523&hg=32&fg=10> and <http://www.realoem.com/bmw/partgrp.do?model=VB33&mospid=48523&hg=32&fg=15> according to which the E90 has a conventional belt driven pump and hydraulic power steering rack. The Active Steering option, which strikes me as yet another BMW solution to a problem nobody was having - iDrive anyone? - does have an electronic control unit. BTW, I see nothing wrong with electronic assist. It's not what you do, it's how you do it. In that context my Mini Cooper S has a mixed system: the pump is electrically driven (but not electronically controlled) and the rack is a conventional hydraulic unit. No lack of steering feel or response there. Neil Fort Wayne, IN 96 M3 - Bastard child 03 525iT - Sterling Grey Metallic 05 Mini - Cooper S with LSD ------------------------------ End of [bmwuucdigest] digest(1 messages) **********
