A car for all seasons (*cough*) - a 6th month review of my 335i... 

"TheNeonDriver - Now with More BMW!" (streetrolledtechonolgy) 02/10/2016 at 19:02 • Filed to: None

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I am sitting at work, waiting for Revit to open, so this is long...

I have now owned this 335xi for over 6 months, and I have put over 6,000km (3750miles) on it so far. This may not seem like a lot, but we don’t commute in it, so these are put on in fits and starts as we use it for errands or road trips.

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Winter Tires. It was well above freezing, so I went for a drive with the windows down. And the active exhaust disconnected.

We (my spouse and I) have taken it on several road trips, and through a sever winter storm over Christmas (only a foot of snow, not like the recent snow the east coast has been getting). The car has performed very well through everything, although a build up of ice did finish off one of the springs on the headlight washer cover. Otherwise it passed 2 snowplows in the ditch on the way to Montreal, and kept on going.

The car gets decent fuel economy, averaging 12 L/100km (19MPG) around town and 7.2 L/100km (33MPG) on the highway. On long trips it will easily cover 800+ km (500 miles) on a single tank.

Photo from Yellowknife, NWT, Canada during the Summer Day.

This was a CPO car I bought when I still lived Yellowknife (NWT) because 5% sales tax beats 13% every day of the week. It took me, no joke, the better part of 2 years to find this car.

The day I picked up the car in Edmonton. Note the super clean E34 which chose to park next to us (friend drove me in the ST).

In YK I auto-X’d it, and we very impressed. The old SRT-4 was pretty quick, but suffered from heavy understeer. The 335i, even with AWD, is easy to rotate and with the optional (noisy) !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , the car out handled everything else but an STI.

The car has a few suspension modifications, all done by the previous owner.The Dinan Ride and quality handling kit, and the Performance spring kit, as well as Koni Yellows all make the car ride a bit firmly, but overall the handling is worth the roughness over potholes.

Polar bear Licence Plate! Also Ramshackle houseboats!

It has been a relative easy six months, and I am looking forward to auto-X’ing this summer, as well as just general summer road tripping!

CB > TheNeonDriver - Now with More BMW! 02/10/2016 at 19:05

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How is Yellowknife? There’s a chance I could end up there, depending on employment.

TheNeonDriver - Now with More BMW! > CB 02/10/2016 at 19:33

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I really liked my time there. We spent about 4 years there, and if not for our family being here (Ontario), we may have stayed.

Fun Fact: We started the NWT Motorsports Club there.
It’s an easy place to live, and an easy place to get involved. If you can stand the -45°C (no wind chill) winters, your set.

Matt Nichelson > TheNeonDriver - Now with More BMW! 02/10/2016 at 19:39

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Damn I wish I could get that much to a tank. Almost all of my miles are city, though, so I am lucky to get 300 in my 328. Sharp ride you have though. What year?

That's gonna leave a mark! > TheNeonDriver - Now with More BMW! 02/10/2016 at 21:35

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I thought only 3 people live in Yellowknife. So one of them is a car dealer. Who would have thought? I also hear there are no good places to fish.

TheNeonDriver - Now with More BMW! > That's gonna leave a mark! 02/10/2016 at 21:42

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I don’t know if that’s sarcasm.

A bad fishing spot in YK is once where you don’t get a fish Every single cast. It’s an insane place to fish.

That's gonna leave a mark! > TheNeonDriver - Now with More BMW! 02/11/2016 at 06:37

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Sorry,should have put this at the end - :)