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- From: aas7@po.CWRU.Edu (Andrew A. Spencer)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: BMW/Servotronic
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 23:03:59 GMT
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- Reply-To: aas7@po.CWRU.Edu (Andrew A. Spencer)
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- In a previous article, qazi8906@ee.uwm.edu (Cindy Crawford) says:
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- >Thanks, Eliot, for bringing forward the subject of Servotronic
- >steering in BMW's. I had a lengthy test drive in a 735i, and I
- >was disappointed in the variable-assist steering it used. It
- >doesn't become meaty until about 60mph, which is way too late.
- >The steering is sloppy and loose, not unlike that of the Lexus
- >LS 400. I always believed that the steering wheel is the most
- >important piece of communication between the driver and the road.
- >Can you believe they are going to install Servotronic on the M5
- >as well? Everything else about the car is good, but that horrid
- >steering just ruins everything that BMW is supposed to stand for.
- >The steering in the Q45 is Infinitely (pun intended) better than
- >that of the 7-series. Now even Audi is using it; it has come
- >one step closer to the Acura Legend.
- >
- >
- >--Aamir Qazi
- > mail to: qazi@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
- >
- > p.s. the 325i is a great car; I do like BMW's, except for
- > the 7-series.
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- i heard, i think, that Dinan has a chip out to override this...
- but am not for sure..i do KNOW that he has a chip out to override
- SOME BMW's variable steering, to make it linear rate, and, i think,
- stiffer than stock...
- DREW
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