anyone drive your E60 RWD in the snow?
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Hi, is there anyone ever driven your E60 RWD during the snow? how was it?
I just got my first E60 RWD, and bought the snow tire set waiting for the snow season.
anyone had that experience can share it here?
someone told me that the BMW RWD ever drives better the some FWD vehicles
really ??? or they just too crazy about the Bimmer..
I just got my first E60 RWD, and bought the snow tire set waiting for the snow season.
anyone had that experience can share it here?
someone told me that the BMW RWD ever drives better the some FWD vehicles
really ??? or they just too crazy about the Bimmer..
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Hi, is there anyone ever driven your E60 RWD during the snow? how was it?
I just got my first E60 RWD, and bought the snow tire set waiting for the snow season.
anyone had that experience can share it here?
someone told me that the BMW RWD ever drives better the some FWD vehicles
really ??? or they just too crazy about the Bimmer..
I just got my first E60 RWD, and bought the snow tire set waiting for the snow season.
anyone had that experience can share it here?
someone told me that the BMW RWD ever drives better the some FWD vehicles
really ??? or they just too crazy about the Bimmer..
I have driven it in the snow but without snow tires it has gotten "stuck" before. I have a steep driveway and with only a few inches of snow, it couldn't make it up with the "all season". I broke down last year and purchased a set of winter rims / snow tires.
I'd highly suggest this plan of action if you are planning on driving in the snow.
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Love it in the snow, great fun as opposed to fwd. Have also been to Ostersund in sweden pulling a caravan in January (just south of the polar circle) and that's no sweat. There are occassions when you are stuck, if snow is very heavy. Then you have to disengage the dtc both stage 1 and 2' to get the tyres to spin sufficiently to rock the car free, as the dtc retards the engine power too much, but you thankfully have that option and that's also the happy button that makes snow driving fun - do be careful with stage 2 (full off) as the car is heavy, will slide and is quite a handful so I recommend against it on public roads. Have fun.
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You've got it exactly right and you wont be in doubt as the display indicates clearly that every nanny system is off. Btw this is the same in all bimmers incl a couple generations back.
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My all season pilot all season tires are far from up to the task...
We've received almost a foot of snow since Friday... The all seasons are manageable, but far from the performance of a true snow tire...
Ordering blizzaks now
We've received almost a foot of snow since Friday... The all seasons are manageable, but far from the performance of a true snow tire...
Ordering blizzaks now
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As a Finnish guy, who drives about 6 months on snow/ice and other 6 months on dry/wet roads...
...I consider it a self-evident, that you really need two different kind of tyres where ever the roads get even a bit icy even only few times in a winter. I would never try to survive through the winter with high-performance summer tyres. Icy roads can be so treacherous.
- Antti -
...I consider it a self-evident, that you really need two different kind of tyres where ever the roads get even a bit icy even only few times in a winter. I would never try to survive through the winter with high-performance summer tyres. Icy roads can be so treacherous.
- Antti -