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1809 messages, Last post on Nov 23, 2009 at 4:49 PM
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Replying to: bodble2 (Nov 20, 2009 4:53 pm) Wear good snows, carry a tow strap and tow hook and don't drive when it's really bad, wait for them to plow, you'll be fine. 
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Replying to: bodble2 (Nov 20, 2009 4:53 pm) I suspect that's just incompetence on the part of the driver. I've run winter rubber on an E36 3er and E39 5er and had absolutely NO problems in snow. They both handled the nasty stuff 100% better than my miserable Mazdaspeed 3.
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you've got to take your time & cannot go tearing through the white stuff. With RWD & 4 snows, the stability control & electronic nannies do all the work. My wife has an '07 X3. Now I've driven her truck in the snow with the all season tires it comes with. In an empty parking lot once, I shut off the dtc (dynamic traction control) and mashed the gas pedal - the truck spun all 4 tires & couldn't get out of its own way. With the DTC switched back on, I mashed the gas and the x3 gingerly took off.
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Replying to: nyccarguy (Nov 22, 2009 11:32 am) She got the X3 about a year ago... First snow, she comes in and says she was sliding coming down to a stop on a downhill slope. "How come I have AWD, and it doesn't stop as well as my 330i convertible?" While I could drive her X3 through heavier snow and worse conditions than her 3-series could handle (ground clearance counts for a lot), the RWD convertible with winter tires was/is safer and better handling in slick conditions.. |
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Replying to: roadburner (Nov 22, 2009 8:18 am) I'm not so sure that's the whole story....maybe you're just blessed with superior skills that mere mortals only dream about. Let's put it this way, all else being equal (tires, road condition, etc), in adverse conditions, I'll put my money on a FWD or AWD over a RWD any day.
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Replying to: bodble2 (Nov 23, 2009 3:14 pm) The trick is not to have "all else" be equal but to equip yourself with the best tires and traction control. I've been in conditions with AWD and the wrong tires where I'd have been better off with RWD and snows.
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Replying to: andys120 (Nov 23, 2009 3:56 pm) 
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Replying to: bodble2 (Nov 23, 2009 3:59 pm) No argument there, but it only snows 10 or 15% of the time. I much prefer RWD when it's not snowing and I have owned AWD, RWD and FWD while living in the snow belt.
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Replying to: bodble2 (Nov 23, 2009 3:14 pm) Well, now that you mention it... |
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Replying to: andys120 (Nov 23, 2009 4:33 pm) |
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