I posted this under the SD link ..repeating here as someone is Aus may have a perspective to help me ...

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I'm looking at placing an order through BMW Melbourne soon for an SD..I'm waiting to test drive hopefully this month when one lands. Thought about V8 as you get alot of extra fruit with the V8 (e.g. comfort seats, self level suspension etc) but I reckon a few mods will make the SD just as quick and overall a better daily commuter drive (with better economy but dont care so much about that)

Lets face it 95% of the time we're crawling around city / urban streets somewhere between 50 and 70 km/hr - so diesel is going to be a better bet from rolling acceleration perspective ....

anyway ..just interested in your thoughts on Aussie tuners who use the UK based chips ...I saw the post here on TUNIT.

What about these guys?
http://www.dpchip.com.au -they seem to have a unit also for the X5

Did any of you guys have a standard 3.0d tuned ? by why? did it make a noticable differenece? did anyone dyno to prove it? any good melbourne based tuners you could recommend?


I'm really keen to juice mine up a bit because in Aus they are detuned to cater for hot weather running and I suspect diesel quality not always as good as overseas. I reckon if the TUNIT dyno's are for real then the SD should be pushing around 235kw and something like 620Nm - and this should give it the same 0-100km/h as the V8 I suspect - if not a little faster .... thoughts?

Also - did you guys get an corporate discounting on the SD retail price? I'm keen to get a good deal as the options list is expensive so I want to get a good deal to help pay for things that should be standard (like Sunroof) ....