Chipping a car with 167K miles - is it safe?

[Badkrma]

I am thinking I want to chip my car, but with 167K don't know if that is the right thing to do. I don't really need any more Hp, I ahve jsut been reading how the EAT chip has made things smoother.

Please give me your feed back.

Thanks,

Stephen

[Qsilver7]

go for it...I chipped my 91 735iL at about the same mileage you're at and loved it...never had any problems...except for the big fat grin on my face! :D

[Badkrma]

Thanks. Which chip did you go with? Stock rev or did you increase. I don't plan on hitting redline, mainly because of mileage.

[Qsilver7]

I installed the JC chip back then...if I did it today...I'd probably install Mark D'Sylva's EAT chip. I've since sold teh e32...so don't hold me to the specifics...I don't remember the "limits". What I do remember is that it woke up that 2 ton beast and made it more responsive (around 2500rpms) in taking off and in city traffic. The e32 was such a large car and kind of lumbard off the line...chipping the M30 engine in the e32 really helped.

If you are in the least bit intuitive...you'll be able to tell a difference.

[Badkrma]

Again, Thanks. I will have to start counting my pennies and hope to have a chip by my birthday.

[Incantation]

yea go for it

[uscharalph]

I am thinking I want to chip my car, but with 167K don't know if that is the right thing to do. I don't really need any more Hp, I ahve jsut been reading how the EAT chip has made things smoother.

Please give me your feed back.

Thanks,

Stephen
I plan on putting an EAT chip into my BMW and it has just short of 230,000 miles on it.

[Jay 535i]

My 535 has the same mileage, and I've been running an EAT chip for a couple of months now with only good results.

You may want to order a chip that preserves the stock rev limit, though. Especially if you have an auto. Then your chipped motor should wear no faster than before. Mark, who makes the EAT chips, offers them with both stock and raised rev limits.

[Alexlind123]

Im not sure i would worry too much about redlining your 535i. Yes, it is easier on the car but it can last 500,000miles with proper attention and probably very rare redlining. Even if redlining it occasionaly cut the engines life in half, you could still get 250k out of it with proper maintainence. Just my opinion, but if your fear of redlining it is making you enjoy the car less, im not sure you should worry so much. Remember, this isnt a ford escort, its a finely tuned piece of german engineering that is meant to be driven not grandpa'ed along like a buick. If thats what the engineers had in mind, the 535i would be alot more like a buick than it is.

[632 Regal]

no you have to usw high octane even if babying it

[Jay 535i]

Im not sure i would worry too much about redlining your 535i. Yes, it is easier on the car but it can last 500,000miles with proper attention and probably very rare redlining. Even if redlining it occasionaly cut the engines life in half, you could still get 250k out of it with proper maintainence. Just my opinion, but if your fear of redlining it is making you enjoy the car less, im not sure you should worry so much. Remember, this isnt a ford escort, its a finely tuned piece of german engineering that is meant to be driven not grandpa'ed along like a buick. If thats what the engineers had in mind, the 535i would be alot more like a buick than it is.

My comment about preserving the stock rev limit wasn't just intended to spare the engine, but the auto tranny, too (if he has one).

Furthermore, hitting the rev limit is much more common in a hard-driven automatic car because you're going to hit the limit every time you go WOT for more than a couple of seconds. In a manual car the driver usually shifts a couple hundred RPM before the limit.

[McWatters]

Haha worried about 167? mine has 330 and im deffinately getting it chipped

Cheers

J.McWatters

[Larry Looney]

Where can you get the chips and how much are they. Are they hard to install?

[kev535i]

check the link to EAT chips at the top of the page for all the info and very easy to install took me about 15 mins. enjoy

[632 Regal]

first time I did a chip it took like 2 hours...seemed like I was going to break the boards seperating them, now I can change the chip in less than 10 minutes from the time I open the hood.

[uscharalph]

Where can you get the chips and how much are they. Are they hard to install?
Look up at the top of the page, where it says EAT Chips.

[Larry Looney]

How hard is it to install? I don't even know where the chip is but would love to give my 95 a boost. It has 82000 miles. This is the best forum around.

[JAlfredPrufrock]

How hard is it to install? I don't even know where the chip is but would love to give my 95 a boost. It has 82000 miles. This is the best forum around.

If you know how to use a screwdriver and know how to disconnect/reconnect harnesses (simple) you are OK.

[632 Regal]

looks like theres a bug on the rear quarter panel
If you know how to use a screwdriver and know how to disconnect/reconnect harnesses (simple) you are OK.

[Qube]

It's not so much whether it's safe but rather what you do with all that power after that ;)

[Larry Looney]

How much power do you think?