FR BMW owners:please stay in when there is snow on the roads
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Your cars can't go up hills, especially motorway exit ramps. Just don't try as you just block the rest of us from getting anywhere. Seen 4 diffrent BM's wheel spinning nowhere today. I used to have a Z4 so from personal experience I know that it could not even succsfully negotiate the camber on the road in the snow, instead it just wheel spun itself in to the kerb. Quote of the day "There is no point having a 4x4 when there are BMW's on the road!!" Mini rant over.
Hmmm, my 330 has been 100 times better than the mondeo I used to have... I live at the bottom of a half mile access road which is fairly steep, and thus far I've managed. I think the majority of it is knowing how to turn the DSC off...
I'm on Vredestein Sessantas, so not winters, but I think they're better than most!
I'm on Vredestein Sessantas, so not winters, but I think they're better than most!
I got home yesterday to a light dusting of snow (less than an inch) and I couldn't get the M5 on the drive or even anywhere near it. After I spent half an hour sweeping the drive and the adjacent road I managed to get it safely tucked away where it will remain for the forseeable. I took the wife's boring focus to work today. Different class in the snow. There was luxury german decoration all over the roadside this morning. I watched a CLS 320 get stranded on a totally level road in Woking town centre.
I think by next winter I'll have to invest in a cherokee or something similar to deal with our incresingly erratic winters.
I think by next winter I'll have to invest in a cherokee or something similar to deal with our incresingly erratic winters.
The Crack Fox said:
Having lived in Scandinavia I am confortable driving in the snow, however I can confirm that my E46 330CI is a pig to drive in the snow, and I assume others are too.
That is the thing - driving talent will only get you so far. If you don't have traction, you don't have traction and that is it.Yeah, my 325i has been fineish, a little bit hovercrafty on some days. That's largely due to its 225/255 low-profile 18" mix 'n match tyres, mostly worn out.
Given that a crap setup like that was mostly fine, I was fairly reluctant to put winter wheels & tyres on but the GF, being swedish, insisted. So, with ultragrip7+s all round on narrower wheels, I'm hoping I'll not be causing too many hold ups for you.
Given that a crap setup like that was mostly fine, I was fairly reluctant to put winter wheels & tyres on but the GF, being swedish, insisted. So, with ultragrip7+s all round on narrower wheels, I'm hoping I'll not be causing too many hold ups for you.
Last winter I used my e46 Alpina every day without* issue. This was on rather wide, very low profile Michelin PS2's.
- There may have been one or two "issues" very late one night in a rabbit warren of cul-de-sacs covered in sheet ice when I truly believed I had become a driving, nay, drifting God. f
k I wish I hadn't sold that car for a s
tty FWD Audi
Z4STER said:
Some BMW drivers will never admit that their cars are s
te in the snow because they are driving gods. No other car model was struggling today. I bet the 4 owners I saw in BMW's wheelspinning backwards down the road were all driving gods too !!!
The ones that have no problems just haven't been in conditions which expose the inherently poor performance of RWD cars in snow.
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