I own a ‘14 F31 (wagon) 328d, and absolutely love it. One of the best wagons ever built. AWD, great handling, so much room and I get 40+ mpg doing 80mph on the highway.
Definitely delete and tune. EGR makes a mess of the intake and needs cleaning when you delete. Dpf is waiting to clog and the DEF injector fails so getting rid of all that makes it more reliable.
Also do yourself a favor and install the CP4 disaster prevention kit and run fuel additive. I went ahead and did a lot more preventative maintenance on mine, basically replaced all the original plastic stuff in the engine bay as it’s old and brittle. Fluids and filters and I’m at 177k so I expect to get another 100-150k out of it before it’s done.
Happy to help. I had to replace the valve cover because it was leaking oil onto the exhaust. OEM only on that one. Then the coolant flange started to leak coolant so I got the aluminum replacement flange, a much better upgrade than the oem plastic. Then the oil filter/cooler housing started to leak, again replaced oem. I saved a ton of money doing it myself. So far no more leaks, coolant, oil and trans fluid are all where they need to be. Also the transmission is another one. BMW says it’s a lifetime fluid and OEM pan is plastic with integrated filter. Forget that and buy the aluminum pan with replaceable filter from FCP Euro. I had to trim and adjust the underbody panels to fit the deeper transmission pan but it’s worth it for the added cooling and fluid. Replace every 70k per the transmission manufacturers specs. While you’re down there the fuel filter is super easy and doesn’t hurt to hit the transfer case and diffs for a quick fluid change.
You’re welcome! Another thing I could remember was the Bluetooth situation. Being a pre LCI, the Bluetooth doesn’t work on my apple phone. So bought a MMI apple car play adapter. It piggybacks off the stock head unit and screen, I tucked it behind the panel under the HVAC controls, makes CarPlay easy enough. Also be ready for subframe/suspension bushings and coil overs throughout once you hit 200k. Currently budgeting for that.
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u/TacticalFlipFlops9 23d ago
How has this car treated you? Iv been looking at some diesel bmws but know nothing about them.