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watrob · #6 12-13-2007, 09:09 AM

HI,

I have a beach house and the only way to get to it is by driving on the beach for 14klm, there is no road and I do it every weekend.

At low tide the beach is like a national highway, smooth as but when the tide comes up and the beach sand becomes powdery & 12" deep because it's all churned up, you need to turn the DTC/DSC COMPLETLY off.

You also need 19" or 20" wheels to help spread the weight and keep the X5 on top of the powdery sand. Also as the ground clearence of the X5 is not all that great the Adaptive Drive which keeps the X5 level is a must as this actually keeps the X5 more upright when a wheel drops into a deep track of a previous vehicle, the wheel actually drops down into the hole but the chassis stays up giving more ground clearence so the X5 does not bottom out so much.

I find if the sand is really deep you have drive it a little hard to keep it going, because it bottom out your stuck.

I have been bogged twice, once because I forgot to turn off DTC and as soon as the wheels start to spin it takes the power away and come to a stand still. The second time I came onto the beach at full tide and there is only enough room for one car between the surf and the sanddunes, I came through the cutting onto the beach and right there front of me was a bogged 4x4, could not pass so I had to stop. When I went to move off the X5 was seating on its belly.

There easy enough to get going once your bogged but you need another 4x4 to hook up a tow strap, once the the bottom is clear the X5 just drives away.

The biggest mistake BMW did was to take away the air adjustable ride height that was on the old X5 but that said the Adaptive Drive X5 handles alot better than the old X5 ever did.

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