"Slammed" the X5

[525iT_Feen]

Originally Posted by Ricky Bobby

I enjoy the fact that the air suspension allows for lowering and raising, but I'm not big on lowering this vehicle for every day driving below the "access" height.


If I were going to lower my vehicle with INPA, I would specify my middle/normal driving height to be what the current access height is now, and if I wanted to lower it more for photoshoots, parking, etc, it would go lower.


Anything more just looks out of place to me, EXCEPT for the 2 guys on here, 1 who is dumped with a white X5 in Florida but he has the stance with the offset and tire width to pull it off, and the other helpful member (xsx405 or something) who has the black facelifted X with X5M wheels and has custom air suspension with controllers and different bags on all 4 corners.

I'd love links to both those cars. I'm pretty well versed in aftermarket air and will most likely switch over to it when $ permits.

I agree with you that its not really ideal for daily driving but its a silly obsession.

[Ricky Bobby]

Originally Posted by 525iT_Feen

I'd love links to both those cars. I'm pretty well versed in aftermarket air and will most likely switch over to it when $ permits.

I agree with you that its not really ideal for daily driving but its a silly obsession.

Look up X5SND, he has the custom air setup.


As far as the white X in Florida that was slammed with stance on aftermarket wheels, can't find him just yet.

[TerminatorX5]

if i were going to do something silly, i'd probably install some rocket launchers, the sharp stars in little droppable bags in the rear... lol... plasti dipped the car in weird color, and then peel it off during high speed chase... lol...

[ake53]

Would changing the value work on my model. 2002 X5 june built. This being said I do not have the buttons to adjust the suspension. However it still is air suspension as it makes the kusshh sound when i pull out the key...

OP post some pictures of how you actually did it in inpa? which version? would be easier to do in inpa than SSS.

[TerminatorX5]

alex, you probably have one axle air, in the rear.. it will look funny if it is too high or too low in relation to the front...

[ake53]

Originally Posted by TerminatorX5

alex, you probably have one axle air, in the rear.. it will look funny if it is too high or too low in relation to the front...

I dont like funny looking.... guess I'll keep it stock...

[SlickGT1]

I would lower mine if I didn't live in pothole / shit road city. Not as crazy low, but I would do it. I think it is different. Plus with my computer laying in the trunk, it will take me all of 2 minutes to raise it back up when necessary.

[smwmustang]

Call me stupid, but do you not have to have the air ride at all four corners to make it work with programming? Is there a way to do this with just the air ride in the back?

Thanks

Shawn

[4.8isX5]

You can do it but you would need coilovers up front as you cant just code them cause you have coils up front, the rear you can code down, but no point cause of the front.

[TiAgX5]

Living/driving in FL and TX (even putting over 100k miles on my '94 Viper, dropped 1.5 inches with stock shock/spring rates) I have never bottomed out.

I ordered the KW Var3 coilover set for my X last week (spring rates and high speed damping almost identical to the OE setup), planning on a 2.5 inch drop. In the years driving my X I have never come close to bottoming because BMW designed the X to operate on much rougher roads then I drive. For my application there is absolutly no "downside" to the drop. If I lived in a local with severe potholes I would never lower due to the fact that going with higher spring rates and/or firmer shock damping actually DECREASES roadholding/performance on rough roads. The "fix" for keeping the suspension from bottoming actually hinders performance on those very road you are driving. This is a textbook example of modding like Martha Stewart (looks) and not like Colin Chapman (performance).