BMW 535d by HAMMAN with up to 350 HP
HAMANN, the car refiner from Laupheim, is now expanding its product range for the BMW 5-Series E60/61 with attachments for vehicles with the M aerodynamics package. Besides the aerodynamics components, HAMANN also offers other conversion measures. Diesel drivers can expect major performance increases. Up to 350 HP is possible!
BMW’s range of engines leaves no wishes unfulfilled. Or do they? In any case, customers can choose from four different types of engines. Whether it is the 520d, 525d, 530d, or 535d – the Bavarian manufacturer offers the right unit to meet the needs. However, needs can grow! So a visit to HAMANN is recommended to anyone wanting more performance. The company from Laupheim can help put an edge to all versions by reprogramming the series engine management.
HAMANN extracts performance values from the top diesel model, the 535d, which were considered impossible until now. In the first phase, the tuner increases power to 319 HP/235 kW. The maximum torque of 630 Nm makes it possible to get impressive in-gear performance figures. The limousine can make the sprint from 0-100 km/h in 5.9 seconds instead of the standard 6.5 seconds (add 0.1 s for the estate model). The top speed – HAMANN removes the Vmax governor – increases to 267 km/h. In a second phase (sports version), the 3-litre straight-six engine with a register turbocharger achieves an unbelievable 350 HP/257 kW and applies a titanic 660 Nm to the crankshaft. The acceleration values then improve once again by one-tenth of a second. The resulting 276 km/h is enough to drive one or two sports car drivers to despair. Don’t forget, we’re talking about a diesel! Besides diesel tuning, HAMANN of course also offers tuning for gas engines.
A pair of HAMANN side skirts provides optical lowering on one hand, and furthermore, they ensure a more impressive side view that what is provided by the smooth side profile. As an optical counterweight to the front spoiler, there is a HAMANN spoiler for the rear (not for the estate) where it is responsible for reducing lift. If you order a HAMANN 4-pipe, muffler rear section, you should also order a rear styling conversion kit with an integrated diffuser at the same time to have the right look. The 5 series is given the final touch by the HAMANN sports mirror (for left-hand-drive up to year of construction 08/2005), which is electrically controlled and heated, or also hinged as an option.
Large wheels and lowering kit
20-inch wheels fit perfectly with the modified 5-Series. HAMANN offers the “Edition Race” design as the top model. The look of the three-section, ultra-light, forged rims with the cross-spoke design and a black rim star is characterized by the 9 main spokes, which each branch outwards into 2 others. Besides the exciting design, the titanium screw joints stand out in particular. The icing on the cake of the exquisite look is the mirror-finished rim flange. Besides the “Edition Race” wheel, HAMANN offers other of its own creations in the form of the wheel models “PG3″ and “Anniversary I”. Typical wheel/tire combinations:
9 J x 20 (front), 10.5 J x 20 (rear) / 245/30ZR 20, 285/25 ZR 20
9 J x 20 (front), 10.5 J x 20 (rear) / 255/30ZR 20, 295/25 ZR 20
There is a lowering kit to lower the body with progressive body springs. With this, the HAMANN 5-Series hovers above the pavement 40 mm lower at the front and 20 mm lower at the rear. Alternatively, HAMANN offers a sports coilover suspension. On request, a sports braking system for the front axle provides better deceleration values.
The Laupheim finishing specialists offer various interior accessories for the BMW 5-Series. For example, the customer can put in an interior set made of carbon for the instrument panel and the centre console in order to give the cockpit a breath of racing air. To turn this breath into a stiff breeze, there are also different aluminum elements. For example, HAMANN offers a footrest made of this light-weight metal, and a handbrake lever, as well as all the pedals. An exclusive set of foot mats with the HAMANN inscription in silver is also part of the range of interior products. For a complete transformation, there is a three-spoke HAMANN airbag sports steering wheel. Of course, HAMANN will change any 5-Series on the basis of the customer’s individual requests. For example, exquisite leather finishing is also possible in various colors. Or, for example, there are extensive multimedia conversions with DVD, TV, or Playstation.
Source: HAMANN
that shit is bad i want this car
After having heard for years of the world-wide reputation of the BMW’s luxurious nature, I finally indulged myself in a 7-series 4dr sedan, in 2004. Little did I realize that the customer relations in dealing with a customer’s complaint do not rise to the level of the luxurious nature of the car itself. Just as dissapointing was the failing nature of the acclaimed safety features.
In November 2008, I was in an accident with this same vehicle. The accident itself consisted of a double impact, first to the front end and the second on the right passenger door. This double impact caused my wife, sitting in the front passenger seat and the only passenger in the car, to have a case of whiplash affecting her neck and shoulder, which resulted in extensive pain and discomfort for two months afterward.
None of the airbags released in the impacts, neither those in the front, nor those on the side, where the impacts were direct hits. I am convinced that if the airbags had released, perhaps my wife would not have had such resulting pain from the whiplash.
Ever since the accident happened, even before the insurance company approved the estimates for the repairs to begin, I have been trying to get an answer on this non-responsiveness of the airbag system. I was met to begin with by many obstacles in even making any contact with anyone in the company for recognition of this problem. Beginning with phoning the regional offices in Dubai UAE, and finding no such department even as ‘customer relations’; then leaving a message with my contact numbers at one of the departments which I assumed to be closest related to this issue and recieving until now (four months later) no response from said department; to uncountable emails I sent through the ‘contact us’ option on the BMW main site on the internet; I became discouraged from even trying to make any more contact. I later came upon a direct email address, sent a message of complaint to them, with an aggravated threat to take my case to a more public arena if no answer was received. Only then did I finally get any recognition and response from the BMW company. That was sometime in late November 2008.
In their first response I was asked to provide some of the detail information of the vehicle itself (such as serial number, etc.). I provided everything they asked for. Since then, I have received nothing more than a tertiary passifying response of “Your case has been transferred to the relevant department. We expect your patience during the interim.” During all this time, I would wait a period of 2 weeks before repeating my request for a full report of the car itself and the non-responsiveness of the airbag system, but I would recieve nothing more than the above-mentioned attempt at passifying me. This has gone on now for four months, during which I have received a total of five such similar responses from the BMW company. I had remained patient and quiet during the said ‘vacation period’ of Christmas and New Years. But it is now far beyond that pressing time, now March 2009, and still no response from them other than asking me to wait for a “direct response” from the “relevant department”.
Until now I have recieved no direct response. Nor do I even know who or where or what is the relevant department. The repairs were done within a 2 month period after the accident, at a cost of $26,500.00 US$. Yet I am still in this game of chase with the company trying to get an answer or even a simple report on the car and why the airbag system did not respond.
To all BMW owners and prospective BMW customers, consider yourself warned…the car itself may be luxurious and comfortable, but their customer relations is far from helpful or luxurious. The airbags don’t necessarily release on impact, and the response from the company in a customer’s complaint and question is just as non-responsive. Many other people have apparently had similar and even worse problems with the airbags, as well, as I have noticed on many discussion forums on the internet. There are those who complain of the exact same problem as I have complained of…that of non-release of the airbags on a direct impact; then there are others who are complaining of airbags releasing whenever going over railroad tracks or potholes in the roads.
-Mr. Saied AlSurf
a very dissatisfied BMW customer