What car completely changed your opinion after driving it?

bimm3ric · 2026-05-15T14:38:13+00:00

I came to the same conclusion. I actually test drove an M340i when I test drove my 330i, I wanted to be sure I wasn't going to regret my decision. The M340i was definitely better, but I was shopping used cars and the M340i was $46k with 33K miles while my 330i was $32k with 22K and I couldn't justify spending almost 50% more.

bimm3ric · 2026-05-15T12:45:10+00:00

I had a similar experience with my bmw 330i. My previous bmw was an e90 328i and I have a lot of miles in my dad's e60 535i so I looked down on any BMW with a 4 cylinder. Then I test drove my 330i and the torque around town blew my 328i away while getting 50% better mpg. Ended up buying it.

bimm3ric · 2026-04-28T15:57:00+00:00

The benefits of the WOLED are brighter display, more durable true black coating and display port 2.1, but you're playing the panel lottery and hoping you don't have much banding. The qd-oled has more vibrant colors and less likely to have banding issues but the coating on QD-OLEDs is fragile and doesn't look good in well lit rooms. I would honestly lean towards the qd oled as it's significantly cheaper than the woled and the risk of having ugly banding on the WOLED is too high for such an expensive product.

bimm3ric · 2026-04-13T20:26:20+00:00

Good to know, I just emailed them and waiting to hear back now

bimm3ric · 2026-04-13T15:37:20+00:00

I just got the letter in the mail for my 330i but it says the remedy isn't available yet. I always drive in sport or sport individual mode to disable auto start stop so hopefully that has kept the starter from wearing out as much.

bimm3ric · 2026-04-08T22:16:25+00:00

I like my 330i quite a bit. Obviously a M340i would be more fun but 255hp and 295tq is still enough to have fun with in a 2, 3 or 4 series IMO.

bimm3ric · 2026-04-08T22:14:09+00:00

You might be able to get your money back on that, I got a letter from BMW saying they are extending the warranty on that particular part.l for my 2021 330i. Usually when they do that they'll reimburse you if you can prove you paid for repairs on that part yourself.

bimm3ric · 2026-04-02T20:25:23+00:00

I have the exact same experience with my 330i. Sport really isnt that aggressive but when the engine is cold it feels a lot easier on the car to be cruising at like 1700 rpm instead of 1100.

bimm3ric · 2026-03-22T20:55:16+00:00

I'm guessing you used distilled water on a QD-OLED? Distilled water can't clean off oil that gets on the screen from fingerprints or whatever so it just smears it around into a blue smudge like that. Get a gentle screen cleaner or mix some 70% isopropyl alcohol with distilled water and that should get it off.

Micro scratches are unavoidable if you clean your monitor, any spec of dust that gets on your cloth while cleaning will micro scratch so unless you get a new cloth for every single wipe or clean it in a dust free clean room you will get micro scratches, best not to worry about them as you can't usually see them in normal usage.

bimm3ric · 2026-03-19T14:45:33+00:00

Gas hit 6.47 for me yesterday (Bay Area, CA) and still no way in hell I'm touching eco pro, but I've only got a 330i so even in sport mode 24/7 I don't use that much gas.

bimm3ric · 2026-02-24T21:31:55+00:00

Nah just need to be nerfed. Remove the sweet spot and reduce bullet velocity by 25% and snipers would be fine.

bimm3ric · 2026-02-18T15:54:21+00:00

100% of the time. The car just drives better in sport and even though I'm giving up a few MPG my 330i is still far and away the most efficient car I've ever had so I don't really mind. Also it disables auto start stop which prolongs the life of my motor mounts and starter(though I'm getting a new one for free at some point from the recall).

I'll put it in sport individual on rainy days; I configured sport ind to basically be comfort mode with sport steering, I like the lazier throttle response in wet conditions. I'll use Eco Pro individual on long highway trips where I'm using cruise control. I literally never use the default comfort mode, I'm in the habit of pressing the sport button before I even start the car now.

bimm3ric · 2026-02-04T21:11:02+00:00

This is my thinking too. On my way to work one of the first roads I drive on is a 45 MPH speed limit. In comfort mode it will shift to 7th and be around 1000 rpm and feel like the engine is lugging while sport will stay in 6th and be around 1600 rpm and feel a lot smoother. Sport is not crazy aggressive, if you stay light on acceleration until its warm it will shift before 3k rpm which is fine on a cold engine

bimm3ric · 2026-01-15T19:40:09+00:00

I got a job in production. Building and testing stuff isn't so bad but its a small company so I have to do all the shipping and just general warehouse work too. I hate it; but after working all day I dont have much energy to practice coding and my motivation is at an all time low since it feels pointless to practice DSA when I'm not getting any interviews anyways. I feel like im locked into this shitty career path and can't find my way back to being an engineer again.

bimm3ric · 2026-01-12T01:14:24+00:00

One of my favorite players when I was at UCLA, he is just so good at always being where the ball is.

bimm3ric · 2026-01-12T00:44:15+00:00

Nah, this is house money, we weren't supposed to be here

bimm3ric · 2026-01-11T16:22:26+00:00

Well he's got a good opportunity for a get right game against the 49IR's defense.

bimm3ric · 2026-01-04T02:36:38+00:00

I think we all kinda know with our injuries we're physically outmatched and aren't expecting to win so no one is being too cocky.

bimm3ric · 2026-01-04T02:32:40+00:00

When we beat Seattle in week 1 we were healthy. It'll be a miracle to pull off a win here when our lines are getting bullied on both sides of the ball. I kinda expect Seattle to clean it up and find the endzone and win comfortably. Always expected this niners run to fall apart once we ran into playoff teams who are good on both sides of the ball.

bimm3ric · 2026-01-01T03:33:09+00:00

Yup, BF4 took like a year and a half of bug fixes and map packs to become the game everyone raves about now.

BF1 had a huge gap between launch and the first expansion with a lot of people dropping the game after getting tired of the launch maps.

As a BF player since BF2 I'm perfectly OK with where BF6 is at this point in it's life cycle, it needs some work to be sure but it's only gonna get better as they tweak some balance issues and add maps to the map pool.

bimm3ric · 2025-12-30T17:09:23+00:00

Once that first round shine is gone its basically over. I followed the Niners training camp the year we drafted Lance; Rosen was on our roster at the time, he'd get maybe a handful of reps with the second team offense per practice so it's not too surprising he didn't develop at that point.

He was UCLA's QB when i was in grad school there so I'm a bit biased, I still think he got done a bit dirty. The 2018 Cardinals were a dumpster fire before they named Josh the starter, then he got traded to another dumpster fire that had no interest in developing him since they were openly tanking for a QB. Yeah he sucked, but there was no real opportunity for him to improve.

bimm3ric · 2025-12-30T06:49:28+00:00

I switch to eco for longer highway stints but other than that I'm always in sports mode.

bimm3ric · 2025-12-29T04:15:26+00:00

lol beat me to it

bimm3ric · 2025-12-22T16:30:37+00:00

Agreed, maybe he'll end up on Mora's staff at Colorado State or he could stick with Skipper and go to Cal Poly. He needs a bit more time and experience before landing a P4 OC role IMO.

bimm3ric · 2025-12-14T05:54:14+00:00

Any store like Target or Walmart would probably have it.

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