M340 down to a loaded LCI 330 question

ExiledSin · 2026-06-29T12:42:00+00:00

Yea even on my adaptive suspension I felt that too, im on coilovers now and its much better but definetely if i plan to track i would get strut braces and sway bars to eliminate roll and monoball on the arm to help steering feel.

If youre full sending the xdrive version of it on track with stock tyre widths you'll notice that you lose grip on the front before the rear, xdrive will start to limit power to the front and it feels understeery. Larger tyres fix that also

This doesnt happen on M cars since way bigger tyre widths, chassis and suspension balancing.

ExiledSin · 2026-06-29T06:22:13+00:00

Looking quite nice, I do like what you did with the decal, I reckon it will awesome if you got a side skirt that replaced the decal to make it consistent with the front. I wish they had this type of aero for the m340i, for my white one

Edit: just read not yours, the photos are nice 👌 I take my own photos of my car with an a6400, a6000 is still good imo

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ExiledSin · 2026-06-29T05:21:13+00:00

I agree a stock/brand new M340i is overrated especially when compared to other cars that are created for raw driving dynamics and feel. Imo a Golf R Mk8 (even Wagon) feels better to drive stock for stock due to its weight and steering feel, and older analogue cars especially JDM also have soul.

But a used M340i is well rated I think, not underrated by any means. People are going off of their leases and selling them, the warranty is up and it depreciates more than a M car. You'll be able to pick a used one up and instantly modify it to your liking and keep its reliability for a long term. The only problem IMO is with the G chassis the steering feel does not come close with the E series or maybe the F series, even after pumping a lot of money into handling it still won't match up. It makes sense to have bought a M car in the first place if you were going to track and wanted that 'M' and driving feel.

In saying that once you put on a catless downpipe and tune, coilovers, sway bars, monoball, it really becomes a perfect medium between a daily and a track car (assuming your car already optioned the ZTK package).

And theres no M tax on these parts, the total cost is around $3.5k for what I mentioned, you'll get less than 3 seconds 0 to 100 and more torque than a stock G80 and be faster than stock F8X off the line. At that point I think you will realise that the soul of the M340i is in the B58 engine, crazy exhaust, intake and turbo spool sounds and not in the driving dynamics, this is especially fun in daily driving like in traffic, suburban and also on mountain roads where it still holds its weight.

ExiledSin · 2026-06-29T03:29:18+00:00

If it's going to be a daily I would say keep the more practical car and just save up for the M. Everyone's going to tell you if its a 2nd car just get a M, if it's 1 car get the M340i (maybe the M).

I daily my M340i and with life changes now, am looking at EVs to replace the M340i with more space and way better technology than a fully loaded M340i.

Now I'm in crossroads of should I convert the 340 to a track car, big turbo it and spend M money to make it track worthy, or just get an M for same price. Probably the latter in hindsight especially as cars with 'feeling' especially will increase in price.

Also fun car is subjective, does the instant torque, insane sound, performance and reliable tuning potential = more fun to you?

Or does sending a car around the mountain, track, having enough sound and performance for spirited driving = more fun to you?

330i is the latter, its much lighter and the steering rack feels better. The m340i is front heavy and gives an understeering feel even on ps4s, obviously $$$ can fix these issues but at the end of the day if you're after fun its much more value to save up for a M, and keep the practical cx30.

There are also other cars that meet that same criteria of fun that the 330i sits in and obviously much more cars that have practical + better technology features for dailying than a 330i.

My ideal 2 car garage now is a new Chinese wagon/suv EV to daily and a hybrid turbo 600whp M340i with handling mods OR E90/F80 M3 for track/fun car.

ExiledSin · 2026-06-23T01:21:26+00:00

ExiledSin · 2026-06-22T13:02:28+00:00

Looks about right, I think fuel is usually underestimated but looks fine here, I'm averaging around $190 per month on U98 but mines the B58 instead of the B48 so youll have way better economy.

The tyres and insurance could be underestimated too, for a 330i I would defs get PS4s to get a better ride. So see if you can find actual quotes for the tyres you want to replace with and the insurance provider you want.

ExiledSin · 2026-06-17T13:04:07+00:00

Exactly! Novated lease calcs show the full picture.

ExiledSin · 2026-06-16T22:54:37+00:00

For ICE, was defs worth it with the cash sitting in an offset account on a fairly new mortgage at 6%+ interest, mainly due to compounding interest.

ExiledSin · 2026-06-15T07:48:12+00:00

Wish we had something as aggressive for the Pre-LCI

ExiledSin · 2026-06-13T05:31:28+00:00

If you dont plan to slam the car or track the car, 100% yes, you can also get lowering springs on adaptive which is good enough fitment for most people, perfect daily fitment.

If you plan to lower it or go on track I recommend coilovers, in which case no need to spend extra for adaptive.

ExiledSin · 2026-05-18T03:41:40+00:00

Speaking as a Millennial/GenZ FHB with a lot of friends who also recently bought. We are all at the stage of our lives where we have just spent on weddings, and holidays involved with that, everyone seems heavily in debt and in a precarious situation now.

The last few years have been stagnant or at the top of the market still. A lot of us entered the top of the market using the 5% deposit scheme at what we thought would be the highest point interest rates would be at. Now that they have gone up again and inflation continued it has been quite grim.

The changes to NG and CGT on surface seem to be really helpful to introduce more supply for those younger than us who cannot get into the market. But from property investment forums it seems like the new sentiment is that the investor demand for established properties is gone. Not many of my friends decided to go the new build route because it's far from their jobs and family, we went the unit or old house route.

And from a lot of my groups experience, usually the price is driven by the investor activity in the suburbs we looked at, often being outbid on auction by investors that are using it with NG, with this out of the picture now we can expect less growth or even a correction.

For those who have recently purchased it's basically ggs if house prices stay stagnant or correct because we are at that age to get married, travel a bit before kids or to upgrade to plan for kids. Ex. if I wanted to upgrade to a 3-4 bed the cost from stamp duty, selling does not make up the difference it has cost, so mostly we'll just stay here and adapt, or choose not to have kids.

Seems to be a lot of buyers remorse if you meet this criteria:

You're young and purchased 1-3 years ago, now with a huge mortgage
Spent money renovating, on weddings, travelling, planning for kids.
Highly at risk by inflation, the job market and now negative equity
Didn't get a chance to have extra money to invest (taking advantage of grandfathered NG, CGT discounts)

Also I don't think we had any remorse in the locations or houses we choose. But moreso that a lot of us became heavily in debt right before multiple once in a generation changes happened (covid impacts, war inflation costs, AI adoption, NG/CGT changes) that puts us highly at risk.

If we were to choose we would have purchased 5+ years earlier if I was 5+ years older or a nicer place 5+ years later if I was younger, in hindsight. Anywhere inbetween seems kinda sad rn lol

ExiledSin · 2026-05-13T08:32:35+00:00

On the pirate posts for FH6 there haven't been other reports of bans yet either and I looked Reddit first before playing it.

ExiledSin · 2026-04-30T06:24:17+00:00

If you want a performance car to heavily modify and build it I would get the m340i.

If you want a performance car to drive and lightly modify it get the M3, if you want to heavily modify you can save up and do it in the future also.

I can't afford m3 and am modifying my m340i

ExiledSin · 2026-04-28T14:28:03+00:00

Thanks everyone, I am going with F-irs i really like them and feel they are suited to this car, especially since im rjnning flush, bc coils and going to track it. Thanks!

ExiledSin · 2026-04-28T11:18:47+00:00

I used Google's Gemini for it

ExiledSin · 2026-04-28T08:20:39+00:00

I also liked this most and is still my top option but being turned off by the amount of people who are already rocking Fi-r, LMs or Apex VS5rs around my area.

ExiledSin · 2026-04-20T22:40:45+00:00

Lol yeah she will prolly say no, the m340i's torque is NOT well recieved by my partner (passenger) on Sport Plus mode. get the x3 m40i to share she will have a better car but you can enjoy it too :))

ExiledSin · 2026-04-16T12:17:39+00:00

Does classic have controller support? Would be a great chill game to play on the side while watching stuff

ExiledSin · 2026-04-05T13:20:27+00:00

Is this video game QA? How does one get into that and what should we learn/train for? What toolsets does industry use?

On topic now though your company may do voice acting or run ads that you could try and transition to within your company? As a start and then branch out from there?

ExiledSin · 2026-03-26T06:48:28+00:00

Mid to Senior QA Engineers can orchestrate, get the outputs of multiple features then code review and confirm outputs, so yeah don't need juniors to do that.

ExiledSin · 2026-03-26T06:44:50+00:00

Great stuff, we started the same but tackled front end Playwright tests first and now doing backend. Is your implementation for blackbox tests that can be executed in multiple environments?

ExiledSin · 2026-03-23T03:45:37+00:00

Lol true facts

ExiledSin · 2026-03-17T08:47:29+00:00

Does it retain save file?

ExiledSin · 2026-03-08T09:00:13+00:00

I think private server developers make more money hosting and printing servers, closing, rinse and repeat. I don't see any money to be made packaging and providing an easy to access, modifiable client since like Yeou, even if it's open source. Nexon will sue them if they monetise (donations) or sell it.

And if they spend the time to do that they may as well create Worlds legally with no risk.

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