Question for stock 2021 owners

[OneTimeAccount]

I am very likely overly concerned for no reason but I’m curious to know if other stock non-tuned 2021’s have traction in 3rd gear and stomp on it on a dry 80 degree day.

If you’re in 3rd gear, going around 45mph and stomp on it does the car hook or does the rear end swing out from losing traction? Mine hooks and I don’t lose traction. I heard of others that lose traction and it makes me wonder if something is up with my car. I’m running stock PSS tires.

Again, silly little thing.

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[chase]

I have a similar experience to you. My car/tires only have 2000 miles on them but with traction control off, the car hooks pretty hard in most gears unless I start off doing a brake stand or something. Definitely not spinning the tires when slamming the throttle while at 45mph.

 

[strohw]

At 45? Mine would hook.

 

[OneTimeAccount]

Okay thanks guys, the guy I was talking to must have had or known some tuned ones then. Made me feel like mine was slow… it doesn’t feel slow but when another car person says something about others loosing traction in 3rd at 45mph, made me wonder.

JB4 is coming in tomorrow. Will report back how it feels!

 

[MCSeverino]

I think it is highly dependent upon the surface. On some roads, I'd light up the rears for sure, others they'd stick.

 

[NitroYellowMKV]

This is not a black and white question, a million little factors, everything from tire pressure, tire tread, the temp out, the humidity, it could look dry and be damp. In the wet my stock 2020 would spin at 60 if you floored it, but in the dry it could hook up in 2nd, the road condition also plays a huge roll in this. In optimal traction conditions, a stock 21 will not spin, or let me rephrase should not get loose in 3rd at 45, now a stage 2 car, different story, in the damp I can be at 90 and touch and it will go sideways or in the dry on the stock MPSS, I can launch it with traction off and do a rolling burnout through 4th gear... Your car is most likely perfectly fine!, if you want a good way to see your boost levels, get an OBD link MX, not only can you code your car through bimmer code, but you can set it up and see your real time boost levels and AFR, etc

 

[OneTimeAccount]

This is not a black and white question, a million little factors, everything from tire pressure, tire tread, the temp out, the humidity, it could look dry and be damp. In the wet my stock 2020 would spin at 60 if you floored it, but in the dry it could hook up in 2nd, the road condition also plays a huge roll in this. In optimal traction conditions, a stock 21 will not spin, or let me rephrase should not get loose in 3rd at 45, now a stage 2 car, different story, in the damp I can be at 90 and touch and it will go sideways or in the dry on the stock MPSS, I can launch it with traction off and do a rolling burnout through 4th gear... Your car is most likely perfectly fine!, if you want a good way to see your boost levels, get an OBD link MX, not only can you code your car through bimmer code, but you can set it up and see your real time boost levels and AFR, etc

Thanks! Yeah I know there’s a lot of factors. I was specially asking in dry conditions. Wet it breaks loose easily in 3rd. I didn’t want to type out every scenario ones car might do it in lol. Figured dry 80 degree day was good enough.

I just bought Bimmercode and used it with my Kiwi3 OBD adapter. Only thing I did so far was code out ASD and it worked fine. I didn’t look for ways to see boost levels or anything real-time yet, not sure if the Kiwi would even work for that.

 

[NitroYellowMKV]

Thanks! Yeah I know there’s a lot of factors. I was specially asking in dry conditions. Wet it breaks loose easily in 3rd. I didn’t want to type out every scenario lol ones car might do it in. Figured dry 80 degree day was good enough.

I just bought Bimmercode and used it with my Kiwi3 OBD adapter. Only thing I did so far was code out ASD and it worked fine. I didn’t look for ways to see boost levels or anything real-time yet, not sure if the Kiwi would even work for that.

not sure abt the Kiwi, its not on bimmer code the real time boost, its on the OBD link diagnostic app that you get.

 

[OneTimeAccount]

not sure abt the Kiwi, its not on bimmer code the real time boost, its on the OBD link diagnostic app that you get.

Ah, okay. Have not looked into that yet. Thanks. Before I purchase that I’m going to see if there’s any apps that will show the same thing but work with the Kiwi3.

 

[XtremeMaC]

Either that or need to get BimmerLink

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