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      01-13-2018, 08:19 AM   #17
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I've never understood why the 1M has a reputation of being twitchy and hard to handle but the 135i doesn't. The 135i's stock suspension is terrible and all of the short comings seem to be remedied in the 1M. Wider track, much better suspension, LSD, etc yet it's the 1M that has the reputation of being a handful to drive
Because the M Variable locking diff isn't actually all that great and tends to be on/off (imo) which makes it a handful and snappy.
I'm now taking us way off topic, but do you know of a better diff out there that is a drop in replacement?
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