IS THE BMW 330D THE BEST DAILY DRIVER? FREE EURO 5 ULEZ HACK EXPLAINED!
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2024
- On this episode of Cars with Jay we take a look at the BMW 330D. Does it make a good daily driver?
We also take a look at how you can get your non ulez compliant car to become ulez compliant.
TFL Ulez link:
tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/comp...
Thank you very much to @bushbybimmer for letting me use his Stage 1 330d for my channel.
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Chapters
0:00 - Intro
0:26 - Car specs
0:50 - Stage 1 Modifications
1:30 - Car exterior/interior walk around
4:05 - ULEZ Hack
5:53 - Road Test
10:22 - Running Costs
11:28 - Conclusion - Авто та транспорт
Get the K&N off and put it in the nearest bin. The car produces more torque and power with the original air filter and housing from the factory. The K&N is much smaller in surface area so has huge holes, meaning it doesn't filter as well as a much bigger paper element. It blocks faster and performance degrades faster.
The noise you hear is the restriction of air going in.
Paper filters, housings and cold air intakes are designed after manufacturers spend millions on research and development. They are designed to pass way more air than the engine needs at full RPM.
Would love to see a series or more info on more potential euro5 to 6 ULEZ Cars.
Great honest (more every day, every man/woman) review, much more refreshing than a lot of the other reviews out there.
Jay smashing it again with the review (Y) well shot and edited!
Sound advice at last someone is recommending oil changes at 6 to 8000 oil is cheap engines aren't. No matter what a manufacturer recommends I always do oil at 6000.
No benefit whatsoever in doing so if you analyse the oil.
@@OH2023-cj9ifwhat’s the point in that? By the time you pay around £40, take a sample, send it off, get the results, you could have payed slightly more for some oil and a filter and changed it. 🤷🏻♂️
U probably warm up the engine in the mornings too 😂
Really enjoyed the video and the ULEZ information. As the same thing for me has happened.
I own a Mk1 2003 Focus RS and live within the ULEZ greater London expansion zone. The car is only a summer show car we dont use it much but the ULEZ rules are still £12.50 each time. The RS itself is a EURO 3 but i was told by the MoT garage i use that the engine meets EURO 4 requirements and i should contact TFL which i did and sent then the details of my engine and a letter from my MoT inspector.
TFL contacted me say yes the car is ULEZ compliant and sent me the email confirmation, i then put my registration into many ULEZ checker sites (including the TFL) site and yes indeed the RS is showing ULEZ complaint.
Love the mk1 RS! I need to get some Fast Fords on the channel. Glad you got it sorted in the end, £12.50 is such a pain to pay, especially when you go over midnight and have to pay it twice!
Hey, I have a 1999 mondeo st24 and got my car made compliant the same way.
Great vid Jay! Sending love from NZ I'm excited to see what you've got in store for us this year! Would love to see you review a 2zz or k-swapped MR-2 spyder ;) Maybe even pit it against an Elise to see how they compare
I've an F31 330d xDrive M Sport with all the options. Stage 1 and Eibach springs. Best all rounder ive ever owned. Absolutely love it
Just come across you video. Really good review mate, nicely done, IMHO you've got some talent, keep it up.
That means more to me than you think mate thank you for the kind words!!
Great video, didn't realise my euro 5 car might be compliant with ULEZ. Just a minor tip - chapter markers to describe the sections of the video are very useful.
Will add those in! But I fear people will watch for the ULEZ tips only haha. Thank you so much for watching!
@CarswithJay so? was about to subscribe just then!
@@CarswithJay People will want to jump to what brought them to the video?\ Shock Horror
The ulez thing was the only thing relevant to me. Blocking from feed. Good luck with that shitty attitude.
I am presuming he doesn't get as much money from UA-cam@@dobbo_f21 if people jump to one section. 😀 Hence why he sacrificed convenience
Liked that Jay! Firstly would you please do a short idiots guide to the ULEZ? I have a w reg e46 323ci not compliant an 05 plate 330ci is compliant & a 13 plate f20 120d not compliant but I think that one probably is. Really informative video for example the 120d & the cooper d I had before sit just above 2000rpm at 70mph & ngl it actually annoys me as I know ideally for better mpg I need to be under 2k. I actually often sit at around 65 & spend a few more minutes getting to wherever I’m going. Thank you
GREAT VIDEO JAY LETS SEE MORE!
Subbed. Good luck with the channel
Loving this content bro
Just stumbled across this channel, very good content and nice format, can you do a similar video on the Panamera 3.0d? There isn’t one on UA-cam other than Harry metcalfe and Harris but they were when then Pan was new.
If I can get one to drive i’ll try it! Thanks for the kind words dude 🙌🏽
New sub here 😊 I’ve had 5 f31 330d m sports over the years they’re good cars ride can be a bit harsh on 19s due to our rubbish roads .. I’m currently driving a 2016 a6 allroad which is a big comfy cruiser
Great content and well explained. Bmw oil and filter for me, do it myself every 5ooomls to keep it easy and hoping to keep that chain happy.
Good review. I had an Xdrive one of these. Love the gearbox. Ride was surprisingly good (It had the adaptive suspension). Great all rounder. The numb steering was the worst aspect for me. I missed the hydraulic steering from my E46. I much prefer the LCI rear lights.
Really great video and overall assessment and guidance. Thanks.
By the way, I have the 330D GT version. Not quite as sleek looking as the saloon or touring but a great all round comprise.. and a bit different.
The big ass one. I want one man, I have always liked it.
Interested to know what the NOX and emissions figures are after the tune mods ??👍
According to the gov website my golf 2 litre diesel 2015 wasn't ulez compliant. Phoned up my local council and they updated it in a couple of days
Great review
How do you change your log book, doesn't that state your car is Euro Rating 5? And thats the information they use to classify the vehicle.
Subbed, love your videos.... Thanks so much
Had to do something similar to get my X-reg Polo compliant - because it was an early Euro 4 adopter I had to get a CoC from VW to prove to TFL it was compliant
I’ve got Audi Q5 15 plate 2.0tdi with ad blue system. Should it be ulez compliant or not? I through that all ad blue diesel are bit this one isn’t?
Great vid 👍
My mates got a 2014 330d convertible it’s already ulez compliant bmw supplied emissions for it.
My 2005 petrol NA Subaru Legacy estate is ulez and clean air compliant. Didn't have to do a thing with it! I think theres just a slim number of model year cars that actually are non ulez (which they keep quiet about).
Great video - earned your self a subscriber 😅
As an xdrive owner I definitely agree 4wd is worth it for everyday driving, even if you do lose a bit of BMWness, because you can use all that power out of junctions & roundabouts without clenching. The touring version also makes it a much more well-rounded car.
I think the 3 is a little unrefined though-quite crashy, a bit too much wind & tyre noise, etc. I didn't buy a 5 because I told myself I didn't need all that space, but the extra refinement makes it worthwhile.
I honestly believe you don’t need much more than this perfect all rounder
I know the same thing applies to pre 2001 petrols and many 90s petrols are ulez compliant.
Some vw audi 3 liter diesels can be made exempt from ulez. I know a guy with a 2011 Porsche cayenne 3 liter diesel and its exempt from ulez. Not quite sure how he did it but i remember him saying something to do with the log book
I always found it bizarre that I had a 63 plate 330d that was Euro 6. Yet I saw loads registered after mine Euro 5
I believe the pre lci F30 is only ulez compliant if the option ‘Blue performance’
I’m willing to be proven wrong but I’m pretty certain in this instance. Look the vin up for this car and you will see that option listed.
I think the option was only available after around 6 months of production and became standard on the very last pre lci 330d’s like this one.
Normally 330d emit more than 0.08.
Great review, love my f30 330d, do you know what the NOx value of these cars are? Looking online it seems to be around 150mg/km when it must be below 80mg/km
Not 100% sure on the figure. But BMW did not change the engine from the pre lci to lci. Its still an n57 and I believe its the same variant from 2012. The lci from 2015 onwards is ULEZ compliant.
@@CarswithJay Okay that's interesting, I'll see if I can get into contact with BMW somehow and try to get the actual figures. Last august I had a TFL fine so maybe if I get that I'll try to go back and challenge it
I have a 316d 2014 buddy, any chance you check, please...
i bought a 330e 15 place with only 35k milage for 16k and i love it
Hi please can someone help,i have a honda civic ep3 2002 typeR it is not ULEZ compliant but a 2004-5 is compliant,im puzzled as the engine and ecu everything is the same even has catalytic converter the same?i have contacted honda no great help i was told to get certificate of conformity..any help appreciated thankyou
Shouldn’t need the COC. A statement from Honda should be good enough. Its a shame they didnt help. Maybe try again and request the NOx? Its possibly because yours is euro 3 also. Needs to be euro 4 compliant at least (which it should be)
Hi would you be able to do this with a 2011 E93 330d has the N57 engines, i see alpinas with the same engine around the same age that are ULEZ compliant. If so can you help me out 👍
Dont think that particular variant of the n57 meets the euro 6 NOx output. Its possible the alpina one used the 2012 (before they were released) variant which does meet it.
Would an e92 with n57 be ulez then?
I'll catch back up with this video in a little bit and keep it open in a tab but I heard someone else have a 335i or 335d that is ULEZ as well 😅 Probably because the police force use it themselves and it saves hassle not having to go round ULEZ with them
Fortunately the 35’s were already ULEZ from 2012. Can’t remember the exact reason why. Thank you so much for watching!
Really enjoyed this video. I have a stage 3 430d if you’d like to have a drive/ review.
Might be interested in that dude! Message me on instagram please @mrjaymodi
damn my sister got a 118i and would love to have the same regulation here on spain to be able to skip it lol
Hi, just stumbled across your video. would a 318d f31 2013 (euro 5) meet that requirement
318d uses the n47 which I believe is not compliant in all variants up to 2015. Worth sending an email though.
A ropey one for 6k from Birmingham say no more 😂
So the 330d in the video can be ULEZ compliant or is this unrelated i think the n57 has 0.154g/km NOx so shouldn't be able to?
The blue performance ones are already compliant. But no these cannot be directly made ULEZ compliant due to the NOx you’ve stated. The 530d has the same engine and can be made ULEZ compliant. The engines were never changed from 2012. So bmw changed something, couldn’t find out what specifically though. Ad blue doesnt have anything to do with it either.
Why is it aust to upgrade the brake fluid? Normal brake fluid will not reach high temps or boil on fast road use, maybe track use but not on the road.
In my experience and everyone I know who owns BMW’s who’s also a fast road driver. They fade pretty darn quickly. Pedal gets soft and its often due to the brake fluid from factory not being adequate for fast road driving. Cheap enough upgrade and saves you finding out the hard way.
If you aren’t getting fade from stock bmw fluid you aren’t driving hard enough🤣
E90 lci later models had electric steering but fell miles better than f30
330d f series mapped is hands down best daily performance economy looks handling it has it all.
Got one my self 👌
Any way of doing this with a 2.0tdi Audi from 2011?
Dont think so pal. Its NOx is likely between 0.08 and 0.15. So not compliant.
Has anyone been successful in making there 330d m sport auto ulez except? Mine is 2012 but based on the v5c my NOx is much higher than 0.08g/ km
Thanks in advance
Wait until the timing chain snaps 😂
Emissions on this car are 129g/km and ulez has to be under 80mgs/km so how does that work?
NOx gas you have the figures mixed. 129g/km is carbon dioxide. 80mgs/km is NOx
@@CarswithJayI've got the same 330d as in this video. Looking online, it seems its not ULEZ compliant: The emissions profile of the BMW 3 Series Saloon F30 with the 330d Saloon variant is as follows: CO2 emissions of 129 g/km, CO emissions of 227 mg/km, NOx emissions of 154 mg/km, and THC + NOx emissions of 175 mg/km. It complies with Euro standard 5 and falls under ED band D.
Nobody should be paying that unlawful bullshit !
Does this include Bristol/Birmingham ULEZ database?
If the car is eligible for euro 6 status then yes. If it meets NOx only im not 100% sure
I daily a 67 reg 335D F30 X Drive. Drives like a dream except for the runflat tyres. Hard over bumps as a result and you feel every pothole or defect in the road. As much as I'd like to just swap to standard tyres I can't justify blowing nearly £1k on tyres (to replace all four corners) when there's plenty of tread left on them.
I keep looking at a remap which would take it to not far off 400bhp, but I'm a bit put off. More than likely a coincidence but the last car I remapped ended up having the engine go bang a few years later and resulted in a massive hole in the top of the engine block. It was a Ford Ecoboost (ST 2) engine though which are notoriously problematic.
I live and work and does most of my driving within ULEZ zones so it's a benefit my car's compliant. Quite powerful, spacious and fairly efficient too at around 37mpg on a normal spirited drive or in town and anywhere from 40-50mpg on a motorway run on cruise control.
The gearbox service cost is quite accurate - 2 months ago I had my ZF 8 speed serviced at a garage in Sussex, I bought the kit myself from eBay for £269.99 and the garage charged me 1 hour's labour at a rate of £99.99 plus VAT (£119.98 total), worked out just shy of £400 but it's now done for another 60k miles.
Remap will be fine. But realistically why would you need the power? Its fast enough, if anything getting rid of dead spots would be better. Did you have a fiesta ST2? The 1.6 are strong motors on those. Ive seen many abused and abused over 100k miles with no issues what so ever. Although they were most likely stock cars.
My car does a bit of weird stutter, it's hard to explain. Basically when I move off at low speed and low RPM, after first starting the car, it feels as if the car is hesitating, it doesn't physically jolt but you feel as if the wheels are "skipping". Ever had that sensation you get from the wheels when they slip and you briefly lose traction? It's like that but the traction control light doesn't come on and it happens on dry roads, I've found if I go over modulations (dips) in the road it happens.
A lot of people have had this issue, many people have said it's glowplug related, coil packs or the engine needing a blast.
My car has covered 89,500 miles and i've done 30k miles since I bought it 15 months ago, the previous owner was a right cheapskate (and didn't even bother having TPMS sensors fitted to the runflat tyres, which is actually a legal requirement and meant the tyre light constantly flashed and the pressure sensor on the idrive never worked until I had them fitted, as a result i'm very doubtful it's ever had a walnut blast so that's next on my list, no doubt the engine's intakes are caked in carbon build up.
Cheapest quote so far is £469.50 and one garage wanted to charge me £650.
No - I had the Focus ST-2, it was a 2 litre turbo petrol engine car with 247 BHP front wheel drive. MK7 Focus. It had the ecoboost engine but it was the 2 litre variant as most of the issues happen with the 1 litre ecoboost. The engine went bang in that car almost exactly 2 years ago today, and I used a stop-gap cheap Nissan X trail from 2004 until December 2022 when I bought the 335D.
To rub salt into the wounds, when the car went bang the police attended and called national highways england to clear up the oil spill, as my car had dumped it's oil across a dual carriageway. National Highways England then claimed against my insurance for their services, £250 claim for 30 minutes on scene. My insurers wouldn't pay out for the broken engine on my Focus as it didn't "catch fire" and "wasn't in an accident". I ended up selling the car to co-part for £4k when it was worth £10k-£13k at the time AND got a "fault" claim on my insurance as a result.
To make it even worse, 3 months after getting my 335D, whilst parked up outside my house, and I was asleep in bed, a delivery driver struck my car, and drove off, without leaving details. He was never traced as no reg was captured on the CCTV we have. That was a £550 excess I had to pay which I am still trying to claim back to this today through a motoring law firm, and of course since the driver of the van was never identified that was yet another "fault" claim. 2 "at fault" claims in 13 months, neither of which were really truly "my fault". That has sent my insurance from £1,750 on the 335D to now £4,450 for the year, I have been driving for 11 years (Since Jan 2013), I completed pass plus in Feb 2013 and achieved "Exceeded" grade, I have no penalty points or previous bans/disqualifications, and yet am still ridiculously penalised, unsurprisingly i'm now a lot shorter on cash each month.@@CarswithJay
@@thefiestaguy8831take it to NVMotorsport for a custom remap and any supporting mods mate they are bmw approved for service work etc and leading bmw specialists. Don’t get an off the shelf map it’s just nowhere near as good for the money and if something happens you just aren’t covered. Mabz is a wizard, he has his own youtube channel too, check it out :) I’ve had a few 35s (3,4 and 5) and always gone to him for stage 2. They drive completely differently afterwards and even the tone of the engine no longer sounds like it’s dying off at the end. I’ve done 75k plus on one of them with stage 2 50k on the other and just below that on the other, never one single issue.
Doesn’t seem to apply to Birmingham CAZ.
Ill look into CAZ more. As I enter London frequently ULEZ grabbed my attention
Hi would a bmw 125d 2013 be ULEZ exempt?
I don’t think the n47 does meet the NOx requirement. But worth emailing BMW to find out for sure.
@@CarswithJay hi how you got an template of the email you sent to BMW.
@@suhailaltaf9519 just copy what I said in the video. Just need to ask them about NOx output, and if it complies to ULEZ requirements.
@@CarswithJay Hi just spoke to BMW they’ve provided me the Nox output which is 135.4mg however, they mentioned that you had to check yourself to see if it meets it.
my father has a 2015 330d the car really is a different experience you don't expect them to be as nippy as they are
I love BMW. They really know how to give the driver what they want. 258hp inline 6 and 40mpg? Sign me up!
I get 60mpg somethings wrong with yours @@CarswithJay
@@CarswithJayI test drove one of those 335is their alright nothing special, then test drove m140i whole different ball game 👍
@@lukeskywalker1666 Be good to get an M140i on the channel. I don't like them though, engine is good but the chassis is not great.
@@CarswithJay I got mine lowered H&R springs m4 underarms and LSD currently stage 2+ with TU fuel pump (485bhp) with a XHP3 zf gearbox map thing goes like a slingshot, handling with LSD fitted is game changer
The E90 LCI had electric steering. Yours must have been pre-LCI
No the hydraulic was an option on the e90. My one was an LCI.
6 cylinder are always smooth regardless of petrol or diesel
Find the equivalent petrol of your car same colour and clone the plates
Imagine if that car you cloned gets stolen and the police catch up to you thinking u stole it ur fucked then 🤣🤣
It is not TwinScroll turbo… twin scroll is only on petrols. Diesels got Variable Vein turbos.
To go a bit further than this for anyone who doesn’t know, 330d N57N engine has a single VGT/VNT (variable geometry/nozzle turbo).
335d N57Z engine has the bi-turbo setup. Smaller turbo is similar to the 330d with a VGT/VNT. Larger 'second' turbo is a fixed vane design.
Not when they start charging by the mile
You really play down the performance of this car. They are seriously quick. They have devastating torque, much more than most M cars, 0 to 60 in under 6 seconds.
The 320 d only has single exhaust tip
On the m sport lci I noticed plenty with twin. Maybe aftermarket? But on the pre lci only a single one
Facelifts 2017 onwards all come with twin exhaust tips
That would be the ones with the n47 engine. The dual tip 320d uses the b47 engine which is better, so if anyone is looking to buy an older 320d that would be something to look out for
I think the best daily driver is the 530d practically and comfort but 330d is good
Got a 530d coming to the channel real soon!
Ulez information worth the subscription on it’s own but a nicely executed channel 🔥👏🏾✊🏾🫵🏾🤝🏾👊🏾🙏🏾
That’s high rpm for 70 my 330d dose 1400 rpm at 70mph
TFL are such gits. Charging people even for compliant vehicles. Disgusting.
Any idea if this is applicable to the 2.0d N47 engine?
Not the n47 annoyingly
@@CarswithJay thanks fella
Best way I've found to beat ulez is to run somebody else's plates and support your local blade runners 😇
A certificate of conformity
CoC not required. You just need the vehicle NOx output. Most manufacturers charge for the CoC, where as emission data is free.
Better with a VW. Should be no problem because they cheated their numbers. Then there is Mercedes who have fallen foul of the rules as their EGR de-activates.
Meh, still sounds like diesel though, couldn't put up with that every day.
You don't get things FOR free. You get them free or free of charge. The word FOR implies you need to give something. 😉
Say for nothing instead
jeez, just imagine if there were any other places beyond London .......where this clickbait BS doesn't apply
They’re good cars I had one as a second run around it was perfect and reliable
It's always free if you just refuse to pay...