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Originally Posted by Z4@Phuket
To my best knowledge, the only electric adjustable damper is from Bilstein ridecontrol (not for E89 yet)
It can adjust the firmness of the damper by a switch in the cabin, BUT
The M-adaptive damper works differently: not only the damper is adjustable, but it also "sense" the damper forces and adjust automatically, (someone please correct me if I am wrong)
That's why they called "ADAPTIVE" |
You are correct.
The basic electrically adjustable dampers will only change the firmness of the damping force based on the switch setting. So, if you set the switch to say "Firm" the dampers get harder and stay that way until the setting is changed. If set to "soft", same thing.
Adaptive M Suspension works with sensors and the cars ECU to not only adjust the the firmness of the damping force based on the switch setting, but they also independently vary damper firmness setting dynamically as you drive. So, working with the on-board computer the dampers, steering and transmission shifting all change according to the Sport setting.