Expecting delivery of your 1 Series??

We ordered a 5 door 120d M Sport in July, now at the stealers ready for a 2/9 delivery date.
LeMans blue
Black Boston/heated/memory
208's
5 year service deal
Comfort pack
Folding mirrors
USB
Xenons

Thats all (I think).

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I ordered a new 123d M Sport in space grey metallic last month and went back to the dealer to discuss a few other bits and bobs and was informed it had literally just been programmed for production on 16th August. I have been a VW owner for many years now, having owned a Polo, Jetta, couple of Golfs, a Passat and now a '55 registered 2.0 GT TDI. VW offered me a lousy part exchange deal against a new VW GTD or GTI, so I wandered into the BMW dealership on a wet and windy day and came out four hours later, having driven a 120d. Suitably impressed, some 24 hours later, I returned and placed my order, primarily because of the forthcoming 20% VAT increase in January 2011, my VW starting slowly to show her age and the BMW dealership offering me a significantly better part exchange deal, I have no idea when I will get it, though I reckon around the end of September or beginning of October, or am I being too optimistic? Any comments anyone wishes to offer me I'd be very grateful for, as I've never driven one before, will be new to rear wheel drive and would simply appreciate any comments which you may consider appropriate. Cheers for now and more news later as I get it!

midlifecrisis welcome to the forum.

I guess that basically any driven wheel will tend to corkscrew or wind its way towards to the outside of a bend when applying power. This is true of a FWD & RWD, particularly so in the wet and dependent on the amount of power put down. Most of the time it is not a problem with either and with FWD ultimately one tends to get frustrated with understeer so the tendency is to lift off a little to bring it back in with a bit of overersteer. With RWD power leads to oversteer which helps a little with steering but ultimately one could get a bit sideways or spin out . To day traction control and all the other safety bits and pieces does keep a little eye on these things but it is a bit slow. The one series also tends to patter or lift rear wheels over rough roads. This can provoke the traction control and tend to push the rear end out a little too. It is really about learning ones car. The manual response comes soon enough it is just taking ones time at first and as you will be running it in I expect ou will learn things fast enough.

I hope that your wait will soon pass.