I’ve had my E86 for 3 years now but I’ve had my E90 330d manual for 9.5 years. The E90 really is peak BMW in my eyes. Just enough modern stuff on it, old school well built feel to it and it still looks really good. Enjoy it.
Great to hear, seems like the E86/E90 owners definitely cross over! Glad you've been enjoying your 330d, those straight six diesels are meant to be very good. Agreed on all points!
i’m planning on buying a m135i, the sound of the n55 is just insane. the best sounding 6 cilinder money can buy in my opinion. nice car u have pretty rare to find them 335s in these conditions.
Congratulations! Funny, I did the reverse. I sold my e90 to get the e86. I’ve had 2 e90s, love them, still feeling the absence. Truly peak BMW 3 series.
I’ve had an e92 330i, F36 435i and now an e30 325i and I miss my e92. I’m pretty sure I’m going to end up buying another one in the future! Apart from annoying injector and speed sensor issues I just loved how it revved out, the great steering feel and responsive chassis. The last great 3 series in my opinion before everything went a bit wrong 😕
I have a 2011 335i E90 Msport with manual and no idrive. Bought new at BMW Welt in Munich through European Delivery. Have done proper maintenance since new and only experienced typical n55 issues such as water pump, charge pipe, etc. Recently added OEM M3 suspension bits and preemptively replaced rod bearings/installed upgraded oil pump at 60k miles. Bearings looked new except for slight wear on #6. Used King bearings that should be better than OEM. I use it as dry-weather daily driver with Elise S2 as fun car and Toyota Tacoma as workhorse/wet weather vehicle. E90 is a great daily that bridges the gap between traditional BMW feel and more modern features.
@@FootToPedal Cars built starting in August 2011 had an upgraded oil pump. BMW doesn’t say it’s an upgrade, but they must of had an idea that lubrication was insufficient by that time. Otherwise, why would they change it?
Very interesting, first I've heard of that. Is yours pre or post-August 2011? And yeah absolutely, they must have been aware of issues if they did that so early on in its lifetime.
Thanks for posting buddy. I honestly couldn’t run something like that as a daily commuting into Manchester. As fun as it would be, I’d blow my monthly disposable income. I think this is obviously why people hunt down the 335d’s. It has 85% of the fun + economy. An M140i is probably a good all rounder. Also the B58 is such a better engine than the N55 Although, agree, the N55 sounds better! 🔥
Yeah that's fair, these cars aren't cheap to run and if you're doing a lot of miles the 335d makes way more sense since the N55 is pretty thirsty! Yeah for reliability and all round the B58 is way better - its interesting though as the N55 is very happy at 6-7k RPM and has more of an N/A feel when the turbo is at max boost pressure, whereas the B58 is apparently not necessarily worth revving out as it has so much mid-range torque, I always found that to be the case with the B48 in my JCW too! Both absolutely amazing engines though, would love a B58 some day!
I’m potentially about to go the other way…. I have an E92 335i with the N54 currently running stage one plus. I ultimately really want an E90/2 M3 but an impending mortgage increase has killed that idea. I like my 335i but I really miss a manual but if I’m honest, I prefer my wife’s E91 330i with a manual gearbox. I never use the back seats in my car, so I’m really tempted by an E86 Z4. A gearbox map makes the ZF6 a bit more usable. It’s fine but very much of its time.
I have a 2011 335i msport. You mentioned that yours has blue tooth audio….mine only came with Bluetooth for phone…didn’t think that any in this year had Bluetooth audio. I had to get an adaptor for audio.
That's interesting, yeah mine definitely has Bluetooth audio, having said that it took me a bit to find it within the idrive. I think my car is an October 2011 build date if that makes any difference, it did have a lot of options fitted from the factory though
You’re not missing much. My 2012 e93 335i has Bluetooth audio but you can’t search through your iTunes library via iDrive like you can when connecting via USB. It’s literally just Bluetooth streaming so I just use USB connection to my iPhone to access all my library, playlists etc.
I just bought myself a manual E92 335i Sport Plus Edition with an M performance exhaust, but unfortunately the rod bearings have gone so it's getting an engine rebuild at the moment! I think these are stunning cars and what I got to experience with mine so far what an engine!! Where did you have the microphone mounted for the video clips at the end of the video?
Awesome, nice job finding a manual too! Yeah the rod bearing issue does come up a bit online, out of interest what caused it? Did yours do the classic consume serpentine belt through the front main seal, or oil starvation or something else? Sounds like the rod bearing failure is relatively rare, hope yours gets rebuilt and back on the road soon! The mic was mounted on the rear bumper, next to the left tailpipe
@@FootToPedal Thanks! They are rare to come across, at least with other options that I wanted like the iDrive & H/K speakers etc. I've got some videos of the knocking on my channel as it started off quite soft and I wasn't certain that it was rod knock initially... then I dropped the oil and found all the metal!! It hasn't been stripped down yet but I would bet heavily on oil starvation as the PO found the inner basket/case of the oil filter cap was missing, so the bottom o-ring that keeps oil in the block after shutting down was missing - and we don't know how long for! So I reckon lack of oil supply/pressure at start up over and over again. The belt was in great condition tbh and there didn't appear to be any leakage from the oil filter housing. It has 120k miles and not the most frequent of oil changes during its life too. So hopefully your with lower miles and a more comprehensive service history should be sound! I've also read up and learnt about the engine priming that needs to be done after changing certain gaskets like sump and OFHG, and mine wasn't always taken to a BMW dealer or specialist, so they may not have been aware of this step - which has also been attributed to bearing failures. I still don't see it as an unreliable engine though, just one that is sensitive to maintenance and needs the right people working on it.
@@foodonfilm5935 Very interesting to hear your insight! Sounds like a slightly unlucky set of circumstances but still 120k isn't too bad going! Yeah I've read about the priming of the engine after certain gasket changes, that's what worries me because I don't know that every garage would be aware of that! But yeah this is very true, at the end of the day it's a high performance turbocharged engine so maintenance is always going to be important, sadly not everyone is willing to look after them like we do! I hope you have yours up and running soon!
I think both have their pros and cons, if you're looking to tune then the N54 might be the better option as it has stronger internals from stock, but the N55 is generally regarded as the more reliable engine overall, but not without issue
Some folks have suggested it may have the exhaust tune, but even then I'm surprised at the volume! The exhaust looks completely standard, I did some digging and it is a different looking muffler to the MPE, but maybe it's had baffles removed. Either way it sounds brilliant
I'd say its a tad faster than the E86, the N52 has loads of torque but with the N55 being turbocharged the spread of torque is much larger, so it results in the E90 just feeling more potent. Power to weight is very similar though!
😂😂 there's a lot of automatic sports cars these days, but yeah most people would prefer a manual sports car over here. I wouldn't class the 335i as a sports car though and there's also very few manuals around
Ahaha well I've owned both and my advice would be to try both, they're different offerings and if you have ever have the opportunity to have one and then the other, I would do that! E86 is maybe not quite as good as a daily, but maybe takes the edge on cool factor! E90 is the slightly quicker car.
I think the general consensus is the rod bearing issues are exaggerated on the N55, its not a clearance issue like some of the older BMW engines, but rather an oil starvation issue. So a lot of it is down to cars being driven hard on track or not serviced correctly. With that being said rod bearing failure does happen, although seems to be usually north of 100k miles. Service them regularly and they should be fine
@@samcourt6228 Just sounds like a loud turbo b58 to me deep tone sounds good at-least fully deleted, stock you can't hear anything. I own one btw just had deleted honestly can't tell its diesel besides the smell.
It’s not just the power… it’s the sheer joy of opening up that N55 to 7k revs. There’s no such theatre with the 335d - diesels are the utilitarian option.
@@elnoel1220 diesel still goes too 5k , n55 has no where near the same torque which is nice for instant acceleration and launches. I'm tuned with jr 3.1 I have 400+ whp and close to 700 ft torque. you wont find another car with that type of power that still gets over 30mpg cruising at 90+ on the freeway while still going well past 300k miles deleted and tuned. If i bought a car for mostly track use I would get the something else for the extra rpm but its does get better than this for a all around daily.
I’ve had my E86 for 3 years now but I’ve had my E90 330d manual for 9.5 years. The E90 really is peak BMW in my eyes. Just enough modern stuff on it, old school well built feel to it and it still looks really good. Enjoy it.
Great to hear, seems like the E86/E90 owners definitely cross over! Glad you've been enjoying your 330d, those straight six diesels are meant to be very good. Agreed on all points!
i’m planning on buying a m135i, the sound of the n55 is just insane. the best sounding 6 cilinder money can buy in my opinion. nice car u have pretty rare to find them 335s in these conditions.
Agree with you, thanks man!
So you buy it? I want f10 with n55
I just bought a 2009 E90 last week and I’m loving it
Hope you enjoy it!
You chose a great example of the E90 with the Sport Package, I love my E92 BSM with 6MT. I've owned mine for over seven years and it's been solid.
Thanks! Great to hear you've enjoyed yours for seven years!
Perfect daily is 330i 530i with n52. (N52 is stable most reliable, less problems, is what you want for a daily) all other reason yep 335i
Was planning to get the 2015 320d, is that a bad idea?
Love the N52!
@@FootToPedal do you like the N55?
@@omarmoran3097 Has its flaws but yeah its an amazing engine
328i N52 6 speed RWD perfect daily and fun
1530 kilo
Congratulations! Funny, I did the reverse. I sold my e90 to get the e86. I’ve had 2 e90s, love them, still feeling the absence. Truly peak BMW 3 series.
Ahaha nice one, glad to hear you've enjoyed your E90s, looking forward to driving mine more!
I did the same move. Sold my E93 335 for an E86 3.0si. Love both of them but the Z4 takes the cool factor.
I agree, peak BMW style. I actually prefer the look of the four door in this generation.
WoW😮
She sounds beautiful..
What a gorgeous motorcar and stock exhaust sounding that good 💯👌
Thanks appreciate it, the stock exhaust is so good on these!
I’ve had an e92 330i, F36 435i and now an e30 325i and I miss my e92. I’m pretty sure I’m going to end up buying another one in the future! Apart from annoying injector and speed sensor issues I just loved how it revved out, the great steering feel and responsive chassis. The last great 3 series in my opinion before everything went a bit wrong 😕
Glad to hear you enjoyed your ownership! Yeah things have certainly gone downhill in recent years...
bud ther is no such thing as a 330i e92...
@@CfeIIo330i was released in the UK and europe. US got the 328i. The answer is one google search away my friend :)
Cool man. I’ve got an E46 328x, and now I’m looking for an E90 ❤
Same brother
@@jashandeepsinghkhosa6956 I ended up getting an F30 328 instead lol
I really miss my E90. Lucky you, looking forward to more updates.
Stay tuned!
Never sold mine have since new 2008 RWD 6 manual.. jet black
Having owned an ‘06 330i & ‘11 335i, I’m starting to look for my 3rd e90 from a F22.
I just miss the feel of the older models.
Sad to see the E86 go, but this is a great choice
Got tired of just the I drive so had to spring for mr12volt MMI carplay.
I have an e82 135i and it’s amazing I love it
Welcome back! Auto!? Still a nice find; the guy I bought my e46 from sold it because he bought one of these. Cheers!
Thanks man! Yeah with my E30 being a manual it doesn't bother me too much this being an auto! Ahaha nice, it's been good fun so far!
@@FootToPedal Makes sense. I figured you still had the e30, but was not sure! Enjoy!
I have a 2011 335i E90 Msport with manual and no idrive. Bought new at BMW Welt in Munich through European Delivery. Have done proper maintenance since new and only experienced typical n55 issues such as water pump, charge pipe, etc. Recently added OEM M3 suspension bits and preemptively replaced rod bearings/installed upgraded oil pump at 60k miles. Bearings looked new except for slight wear on #6. Used King bearings that should be better than OEM. I use it as dry-weather daily driver with Elise S2 as fun car and Toyota Tacoma as workhorse/wet weather vehicle. E90 is a great daily that bridges the gap between traditional BMW feel and more modern features.
Sounds like you've had a good experience with the car, great to hear! Always interesting to hear about people's rod bearing experiences as well!
@@FootToPedal Cars built starting in August 2011 had an upgraded oil pump. BMW doesn’t say it’s an upgrade, but they must of had an idea that lubrication was insufficient by that time. Otherwise, why would they change it?
Very interesting, first I've heard of that. Is yours pre or post-August 2011? And yeah absolutely, they must have been aware of issues if they did that so early on in its lifetime.
Mine was built 5/2011.
Congratulations on the new car Oliver, looks great and sounds awesome.
Thanks Neil, much appreciated!
Thanks for posting buddy. I honestly couldn’t run something like that as a daily commuting into Manchester. As fun as it would be, I’d blow my monthly disposable income. I think this is obviously why people hunt down the 335d’s. It has 85% of the fun + economy. An M140i is probably a good all rounder. Also the B58 is such a better engine than the N55
Although, agree, the N55 sounds better! 🔥
Yeah that's fair, these cars aren't cheap to run and if you're doing a lot of miles the 335d makes way more sense since the N55 is pretty thirsty! Yeah for reliability and all round the B58 is way better - its interesting though as the N55 is very happy at 6-7k RPM and has more of an N/A feel when the turbo is at max boost pressure, whereas the B58 is apparently not necessarily worth revving out as it has so much mid-range torque, I always found that to be the case with the B48 in my JCW too! Both absolutely amazing engines though, would love a B58 some day!
@@FootToPedalSuch a great channel, keep up the good work my friend. 👏
@@paullockwood7219 Appreciate that, thanks Paul!
I’m potentially about to go the other way….
I have an E92 335i with the N54 currently running stage one plus. I ultimately really want an E90/2 M3 but an impending mortgage increase has killed that idea. I like my 335i but I really miss a manual but if I’m honest, I prefer my wife’s E91 330i with a manual gearbox. I never use the back seats in my car, so I’m really tempted by an E86 Z4.
A gearbox map makes the ZF6 a bit more usable. It’s fine but very much of its time.
An E86 Z4 is a great drivers car and very useable too! That N52 engine is really nice as well
I have the 2010 E90 face lift model LCI. They would have to be the nicest design for the 3 series ever. Just my opinion.👌
Looking forward to the full review !
Stay tuned!
@@FootToPedal I really like the n55 e90 they are just soo hard to come across on the markets to buy
Yeah there's not many around, especially with lower mileage. Tend to see a few more E92s but the E90/E91 seem to rarely come up for sale
Excelente video gracias 👏🏼
I have a 2011 335i msport. You mentioned that yours has blue tooth audio….mine only came with Bluetooth for phone…didn’t think that any in this year had Bluetooth audio. I had to get an adaptor for audio.
That's interesting, yeah mine definitely has Bluetooth audio, having said that it took me a bit to find it within the idrive. I think my car is an October 2011 build date if that makes any difference, it did have a lot of options fitted from the factory though
You’re not missing much. My 2012 e93 335i has Bluetooth audio but you can’t search through your iTunes library via iDrive like you can when connecting via USB. It’s literally just Bluetooth streaming so I just use USB connection to my iPhone to access all my library, playlists etc.
@@elnoel1220 I bought a device called Tune2Air which gives full Bluetooth audio.
Got 2009 BMW E90 (335XI) for $3650 CAD with 215 000 km from auction. Let me see how it works out
Best of luck, sounds like a good deal!
I just bought myself a manual E92 335i Sport Plus Edition with an M performance exhaust, but unfortunately the rod bearings have gone so it's getting an engine rebuild at the moment! I think these are stunning cars and what I got to experience with mine so far what an engine!!
Where did you have the microphone mounted for the video clips at the end of the video?
Awesome, nice job finding a manual too! Yeah the rod bearing issue does come up a bit online, out of interest what caused it? Did yours do the classic consume serpentine belt through the front main seal, or oil starvation or something else? Sounds like the rod bearing failure is relatively rare, hope yours gets rebuilt and back on the road soon!
The mic was mounted on the rear bumper, next to the left tailpipe
@@FootToPedal Thanks! They are rare to come across, at least with other options that I wanted like the iDrive & H/K speakers etc. I've got some videos of the knocking on my channel as it started off quite soft and I wasn't certain that it was rod knock initially... then I dropped the oil and found all the metal!!
It hasn't been stripped down yet but I would bet heavily on oil starvation as the PO found the inner basket/case of the oil filter cap was missing, so the bottom o-ring that keeps oil in the block after shutting down was missing - and we don't know how long for! So I reckon lack of oil supply/pressure at start up over and over again. The belt was in great condition tbh and there didn't appear to be any leakage from the oil filter housing.
It has 120k miles and not the most frequent of oil changes during its life too. So hopefully your with lower miles and a more comprehensive service history should be sound!
I've also read up and learnt about the engine priming that needs to be done after changing certain gaskets like sump and OFHG, and mine wasn't always taken to a BMW dealer or specialist, so they may not have been aware of this step - which has also been attributed to bearing failures.
I still don't see it as an unreliable engine though, just one that is sensitive to maintenance and needs the right people working on it.
@@foodonfilm5935 Very interesting to hear your insight! Sounds like a slightly unlucky set of circumstances but still 120k isn't too bad going!
Yeah I've read about the priming of the engine after certain gasket changes, that's what worries me because I don't know that every garage would be aware of that!
But yeah this is very true, at the end of the day it's a high performance turbocharged engine so maintenance is always going to be important, sadly not everyone is willing to look after them like we do! I hope you have yours up and running soon!
I enjoyed the detailing video you did with the E86, how about one with the E90?
Thanks for the suggestion! Definitely planning to do something like that, probably in the Spring
Ayyyy dats my car!
You have good taste!
i prefer the n52 for daily but the 335 sure seems like fun 😂
N52 is definitely a great choice for a daily, used to have one when I had my E86 Z4!
Is the exhaust stock? Surprise to hear the pops & bangs!
As far as I know yes! Possible it may have the PPK tune on it given the burbles, but yet to be determined
@@FootToPedal Wow, keen to know as I am considering to get one. If the stock exhaust is like this then I am thrilled!
Looking to buy the same thing E90, now don’t know if I want n54 or n55
I think both have their pros and cons, if you're looking to tune then the N54 might be the better option as it has stronger internals from stock, but the N55 is generally regarded as the more reliable engine overall, but not without issue
Hi oliver,havnt followed for awhile,do you still have that lovely e30 touring.good luck with the new car.
Thanks Brian, hope you're well. I certainly do, absolutely love my E30! Might feature that on the channel some point early next year!
Look forward to it oliver,shes abeauty .
Hi mate. How does it feel performance wise compared to the G20 330i that you tested a couple of years ago?
I would say its definitely quicker than that - Plus the straight six sound makes a nice difference!
Where did you sell the z4?
How much?
I ask because I’ve just bought one and would of had yours
I sold it to Zachary Luke Cars a few weeks ago! I believe he sold it for around £13k
@@FootToPedal Good grief.
They aren’t easy to find a nice one.
Anyway good luck with the new car.
Yeah Zach usually has some nice examples, I see quite few nice ones come up for sale with him
@@FootToPedal I didn’t have that sort of budget. My max spend was around 10k
Yeah fair enough, this time of year is a good time to buy to be honest, they tend to be worth slightly less over the winter
This surely has the M Performance exhaust option on it. Because the stock mufflers don't sound as good as this one does mate... ! 🙂
Some folks have suggested it may have the exhaust tune, but even then I'm surprised at the volume! The exhaust looks completely standard, I did some digging and it is a different looking muffler to the MPE, but maybe it's had baffles removed. Either way it sounds brilliant
Cool car. How does the performance compare to the e86? I'm curious as i have an e86.
I'd say its a tad faster than the E86, the N52 has loads of torque but with the N55 being turbocharged the spread of torque is much larger, so it results in the E90 just feeling more potent. Power to weight is very similar though!
@@FootToPedal interesting, thanks.
@@FootToPedalN52 has loads of torque? Are you crazy? 300 Nm is very little.
isn't it illegal in your country to drive a sport car with an automatic gear box ?
😂😂 there's a lot of automatic sports cars these days, but yeah most people would prefer a manual sports car over here. I wouldn't class the 335i as a sports car though and there's also very few manuals around
N52 or n55 for a daily. N54 for weekend car too much maintenance for a daily 😅.
Yeah I wouldn't want to daily an N54, but I have an admiration for that engine nonetheless!
hah I'm actually thinking between E92 or E86 for a fun car. This vid makes me wonder even more which one to choose
Ahaha well I've owned both and my advice would be to try both, they're different offerings and if you have ever have the opportunity to have one and then the other, I would do that! E86 is maybe not quite as good as a daily, but maybe takes the edge on cool factor! E90 is the slightly quicker car.
what a beauuuuuty
The "N" in the N-series engines stand for "no, thank you"
Fair enough 😂
top car.
Oh no...sold the e86. Had mine 5yrs now...not letting it go. Turbo is concerning.😮
Yep time to move on, but I would like to get back into an E86 at some point for sure! Turbo comes with a lot of benefits to be fair
@@FootToPedal No doubt there are benefits. Thinking more in terms of reliability and costs. However, hopefully 🙏 all good mate!!
Yeah there's always risk when there's complexity 😂 hoping mine being a lower mileage example might help a bit there, fingers crossed!
I would buy one if the rod bearings didn't just randomly fail on 50k mile babied engines... I want to buy an n55 so bad but the risk is not worth it
I think the general consensus is the rod bearing issues are exaggerated on the N55, its not a clearance issue like some of the older BMW engines, but rather an oil starvation issue. So a lot of it is down to cars being driven hard on track or not serviced correctly. With that being said rod bearing failure does happen, although seems to be usually north of 100k miles. Service them regularly and they should be fine
The 335i is a good daily but i feel like the 335d is perfect you get the power and fuel economy
But it’s a diesel and still sounds like a tractor 😂
@@samcourt6228 Just sounds like a loud turbo b58 to me deep tone sounds good at-least fully deleted, stock you can't hear anything. I own one btw just had deleted honestly can't tell its diesel besides the smell.
It’s not just the power… it’s the sheer joy of opening up that N55 to 7k revs. There’s no such theatre with the 335d - diesels are the utilitarian option.
@@elnoel1220 diesel still goes too 5k , n55 has no where near the same torque which is nice for instant acceleration and launches. I'm tuned with jr 3.1 I have 400+ whp and close to 700 ft torque. you wont find another car with that type of power that still gets over 30mpg cruising at 90+ on the freeway while still going well past 300k miles deleted and tuned. If i bought a car for mostly track use I would get the something else for the extra rpm but its does get better than this for a all around daily.
Spider man doing car reviews lmao
I've had the same comment before 😂😂
Sorry but 328i N51 is peak BMW lol ✌😂
No Z4!! ,
Sadly no more!
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