Diesel engine power ?

[nujon]

Did the very last 3.0d's have 230bhp rather than 218bhp ? (tuning company I contacted clearly believes so)

[Sanj]

As far as I'm aware, there was no change to the power output.

[X5Sport]

Any increase above 218bhp happened with the E70 switchover. E53s remained at 218 I'm sorry to say. The extra 12 would not have made a huge difference and in all honesty probably would not have been worth it.

[Don Coffey]

BMW are marketing experts and will use any increase in power or the introduction of a new engine in conjunction with the release of a new model or face lift. Certainly over the last decade I have never seen an un-marketed increase.

Don

[pvr]

Wasn't the pre-face lift lower on power though? My dad had a pre-facelift 3.0d with mine being the 3.0d facelift. Besides the 6 speed gear box that mine has, his felt noticably slower.

[AW8]

E53 only ever had 2 outputs.

Prefacelift 184HP & Facelift 218HP.

If you want confirmation check Parkers for specs. I have read nearly every guide/review on the E53's & am confident in my answer.

I would be concerned to let anyone work on my car if they gave me this info.

[evoblue]

The engines in the facelift has a different displacement so classified as a 3l as apposed to 2.9l in pre facelift. The size is prefacelift 2926cc 183bhp and facelift is 2993cc 218bhp. They are also different insurance groups. prefacelift is a 16A and facelift is a 17. The same engines were used in the 330d which I previously owned and swapped for the X5. They did have 3 BHP ratings 184/204 and 218. I did have to ask the insurance company on why such a change in premium and they said about the displacement size.