BMW E46 325Ci Sport front brakes - drilled as standard?

Leonard Hofstadter

Just wondering, does an E46 325Ci Sport LCI have drilled front discs as standard, or standard discs? I think they're not supposed to (indeed, I came across an E92 M Sport this evening and that did not have drilled front discs), but I'd like to be sure. Confusingly, when I checked realoem.com for the part number and googled it, I found links to drilled and non-drilled discs but the part number is the same!

I'd like to know which they are supposed to have and hence work out if an insurance company needs to be told that the car is running on non-standard brakes.

Thanks in advance.

Gumbo

I don't think they did tbh

Veloce

Never heard of them having drilled discs as standard.

Foxhole Norman

They wouldn't have as standard anyway, they're probably MTEC or the likes, I have drilled and grooved all around on mine, find them great.

Leonard Hofstadter

Thanks all. That's what I thought. Good job I noticed it! Fortunately it makes no difference to insurance prices for me - I was worried it would (even though it's a nice upgrade to have ).

mickdw

captainspeed wrote: »

Thanks all. That's what I thought. Good job I noticed it! Fortunately it makes no difference to insurance prices for me - I was worried it would (even though it's a nice upgrade to have ).

I'd say your insurers would be looking at you strange when you declared that detail.
Not many would botyer tbh specially if they were a factory option on that same model.

Leonard Hofstadter

mickdw wrote: »

I'd say your insurers would be looking at you strange when you declared that detail.
Not many would botyer tbh specially if they were a factory option on that same model.

I reckon someone added them in afterwards, having got the spec list from bmwvin.com there's no mention of a brake upgrade in the options list. That's why I decided to ask about declaring it, it wasn't mentioned to me when I looked at the car, but I had a good root around before I bought it and I thought to myself that BMW hardly fitted drilled front discs as standard to a 325, an M3 fair enough but hardly a 325! If it came from the factory like that I wouldn't have declared it, because the braking system hasn't been changed since the car left the factory (otherwise we might as well tell them all the optional extras a car has, and I don't do that either). I actually don't even know what kind of upgraded brakes it has to be honest (because there's no receipt), although they look like the discs from the M3.

Supergurrier

More than likely mtec brakes (nothing to do with m sport spec) but some non car people selling get confused.

Brother has grooved and drilled mtecs on his 530d because oem were over twice the price and they work just as well

ciarsd

The E46 as standard had vented front discs but not drilled/grooved. Definitely aftermarket.