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Raise me ears
BMW has a crank named Gerhard Tom. He is a sound engineer. As Mohammed Ali said: the profession is such. The grass grows, birds fly, the waves wash the sand, I beat people. Toma's profession - put the correct sound. With primitive skills of garage diagnostics, it has little in common. Bavarian audit on the roars, rustling and violines assesses the quality of the new car. And, if necessary, correlates these qualities. It turns out such an audio test drive when heard a hundred times more informative than once again. Armed with Toma's technique, I got behind the wheel of the BMW 118i and put the ears. The first minutes are the most deceptive. Let the eyes have not yet been closed, and the ear shell does not cover ... in a word, clean from sulfur. But the risk of overdoing and catch some extraneous sounds. At first I initiated the starter's sweep. Something he was heard in him native, Zhigulevsky. And let it almost immediately dissolve in the rivet rope. But it seemed to me that in the sports Bavarian unit with a concern, the engine should start without this, even if the secondary Zh.
But the engine itself in idle and working modes gives the academic sound. This is Kressendo and this forte on transitions from transmission transmission only BMW. Believe it or not, but I, putting a mobile phone under the hood, recorded the ringtone of the engine rings. And let me listen to familiar. 9 out of 10 listeners who are not touching the bear easily guess BMW voice.
According to Tom theory, BMW has all the sounds of special. Whether it is a soft rust of janitors, a smooth hum of descending glass or a strong smack of the closing door. May be. But I tend to think that these are healthy sounds of a new car, relying on it by definition. As for the young athlete, it is naturally cheerfully sprinkled with strong feet, and not to creak in veteran's menisci, and for a boomer with 12 thousand on the odometer, it is natural to vigorously knock on rails and pits, and not having to rumble over the suspension to the outgrowth of the owner.
In some way, in my opinion, the BMW 118i is too energetic. Try to adjust the seat on top, and you will understand what I mean. Adjustment mechanical. And if you rely on the chair with all your muscular firm, then with the help of the lever you can only go down. On the floor. There are no intermediate positions. Back to its original position, continuing to rely fifth point on the chair, will not work. We'll have to at least close. How maximum - get out of the car. And here you go out, pull for the lever, and only then the chair, poking loudly, jumps up. It would be necessary to notice the volume that this PA SMU is not the most successful. And let him return the ruster.
As any Russian driver, using a seat belt as often as suspenders, I hurriedly counted the annoying and wrong sounds an annoying reminder to be fastened. What is curious: electronics is warned only to people with a certain weight category. In any case, on my passenger with a lively mass of just over 50 kg, she did not eat until the passenger put a bag on his knees and thereby did not increase the load. Another audioradox is associated with the opposite - as if the tenor gave Petuha - Schlip about the drainage of the gas tank. It is duplicated on the instrument panel with a column with a hose. Strange, but the car began to worry about the lack of gasoline, then when it remained 50, then by 60, and then 88 km of way.
It is difficult to confess, it is difficult to catch the sounds emanating from the car, instead of a more familiar method of swallowing them, the rest of the ride and giggling over the jokes of our inimitable commands, for example. But with jokes came the puncture. Almost in the spirit of Fomenko with his joke where is the car rear windshield? I found the glass quickly. But the week could not find on the standard and seemingly simple magnetol BMW Business CD listening mode, allowing you to quickly jump from one wave to another without a risk to choke in the verbal stream of some DJ or commentator. By the way, there is no complaints to the focus itself: it is in a measure threatening bass and vibrates the speakers without senile grinding. I pressed on the buttons with the arrows, forcing the radio fleet to rotate in a circle to the right, then to the left. But instead of stuttering about each inter-rich FM range, in which even a sext of 90 to weaves is now filled, the receiver slowed down on several selected stops. To derive it from this loyal trance was only a random to the TR button. And before that it was necessary to flip the ether in the manual mode by one megahertz. I foresee a wise remark that the enlightenment of the Spirit and the instruction manual can give a lot of discoveries wonderful. But even from the Talmud, laid out in the glove box of each car, it is difficult to understand how you can turn off the DSC (if there is no special buttons for this in the cabin), for example. Listening as the system of course stability screamed by a poker, sometimes nice, I do not argue. But sometimes I want to cut down, and DSC is tolerance. So, I shall: DSC turns off after a long press button on the other system, the DTC thrust adjustment. I also came to this in-depth knowledge thanks to a well-developed at regular post. It turned out to be no less important for the test drive than the ability to hear.
Text Hassan Ganiev photo Alexander Antonov
BMW 118i
Engine gasoline, 4 cylinders, row
Working volume (cube. Cm) 1995
Power (hp at rpm) 129 at 5750
Moment (nm at rpm) 180 at 3250
Length / Width / Height (mm) 4225/1750/1430
Fuel consumption (track / city / medium) 6.1 / 10.7 / 7.8
Acceleration to 100 km / h (c) 10.1
MAX. Speed \u200b\u200b(km / h) 204
Expenses (06/20/06-18.07.06. Mileage 2100 km)
Common Mileage 12 540 km
Gasoline 7200 rubles.
Sink 700 rub.
Parking (Night) 3800 rub.
Penalty (speeding) 600 rubles.
A source: "Autopilot"
