EBMCS03

Sure does... BMW designed and built the E60 and its the E60 thats catching too much side winds causing the car to be twitchy. I drove though the desert in moderate to high winds at like 70-80mph and I was all over my lane. I mean it wasnt horrible but it was twitchy took more effort than I liked to have to keep fighting and keep correcting the car. Other cars in high winds the movement is more gradual so you'll only be like wavy in your lane but with the E60 its like more sudden twitchy-ness... more like when you do a small quick left right with your wheel and your passenger heads bobble left and right.

It definetly can do better in winds and surely does worse than other cars... I'm just glad I dont have to always drive in high winds else it'll be an effort.

Ok I think some of you will bring in the fact that Active Steering is suppose to correct the wind and I should have just let the car do its thing... BUT

I also tried NOT correcting the winds and to see if Active Steering would do its job I think it does... but at a delayed reaction... so I would have felt the wind and then feel the car correct. So with normal human reaction if I wasnt trying not to correct I would have been correcting at the same time when AS was correcting... I'm not sure if this is the reason for the twitchy-ness but I havent driven another E60 w/out AS in high winds to compare. I driven in lighter winds and the car doesnt seem to have any problems its during stronger winds and at freeway speeds is when you can notice it. I think under 70 mph the car is fine... but I'll get runned over at that speed on a desert highway.

Peter530i

I've noticed this too!!!! Even huge VW Touareg with much bigger side profile to catch the wind is not that sensitive..... I don't know what it is but E60 is more sensitive to strong side winds at higher speed then any other car I've driven....

Maybe it is just the precise and very sensitive steering we have so that is why we feel it?????

I remember speeding the Autobahn in autumn while very very windy out there and those passages from wooded area of the highway to totaly plain in the middle of the field parts were a shock. The car jumped almost a meter a side.... It was like a smack

fantomas

I'm not a specialist but I clearly noticed that my E60 is more sensitive to lateral wind than my previous E46.

amigo525

Good that you ask that one. I had that problem with my E60 04 with 16x7 wheels an nonsport.
With my 06 17x8wheels and sportpkg...i dont feel it that much. In fact, last week was very windy and
that was one of the thing i wanted to test. I did 80 when it was pretty windy..and i did not feel it.