Has your X5 been off road?

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I was literally just about to make this post, asking if anyone off roads theirs. Nice photos, I took mine off roading a few days ago when it was raining. Muddy as HELL. Tons of fun. I wish we had trails like that here in MD. I know VA does, but I'm not allowed to drive there for 6 months haha.

[zizux]

HAHA Stupid Utah weather, it was 62 deg out when I left for work this morning, its now snowing.

Thus mudd. But I'm going to vegas this weekend

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Anyone in the MD area? If so, the Rockville Best Buy has a parking garage that floods LIKE CRAZY. It went up to my fog lights, pretty cool seeing the X in there. The cop that sits @ the BMW was cruising past and was laughing lol

[LeMansX5]

Not mine but here is a pic from this thread



And this is how you drive in water (from this thread). Lot of off-road pic threads if you search.

[vinuneuro]

Originally Posted by LeMansX5

Didn't he get stuck?

[Wagner]

Got to love that 6" of ground clearance

[X5SA]

Originally Posted by CGSTL

That rocks!!! We drove through hip-high water in an X5 at the BMW Performance Center in Spartanburg, SC. But that was with THEIR X5, not MINE!!! How deep did it actually get?

It got to above the rubber trim on the doors, wheels basically totally submerged.

[X5Flyboy]

Originally Posted by OldGuy

Flyboy my next pickup is a 997 GT3 so I dont know if I am going to be able to make a Euro delivery
I still miss Idaho falls. Went to Boise this summer and it was 109
I looked on line and it was 85 at your house. My wife went to Skyline HS
and I have a friend here that went to IF HS.

I can't fit into something like that, thought I'd love to. Too tall a sitting hgt, 42". Even when I flew A-4s in the Navy, my shoulders rubbed the canopy rails and if I'd ever needed to punch out, my only option was the bottom seat ripcord as the top one was not designed to pull UP over my head. Somethings are just made for a smaller person.

It's too bad we don't have selected "autobahn" roads here in America. Some cars are just made for high speed cruising (safely). It's a sad commentary that the vehicle most caught for speeding in the USA is a minivan. In truth, I'm not sure, but from my experience, they're the ones that blow my doors off. Talk about driving with reckless abandon! Hwy 93 out of Twin Falls to I-80 is usually a good road to "air it out" (as long as you lookout for the idiots passing on blind turns) And once you pass the lone State Trooper on rte 12 from Missoula to Lewiston rocks with 57 miles of curves and high speed passes.

Would you believe after 4 yrs of driving my friend's daugther to the high school in Ammon, it's name eludes me. (Don't get old!) Of course we only lived ~400yds from the high school, but she still needed a ride. I used to walk that far just to get to the schoolbus stop.

Love everything out there. Am heading back there for the next 5 months to escape the heat & humidity of Charleston,SC. Too many friends & relatives on the east coast to stay out there year round. Previous 5 years, I drove back'n'forth 3-4X a yr. Ended up doing 'speed' runs across and that got old. Now I do one trip west in the spring (dodging the tornadoes) and east in the fall(dodging the mountain snows). Nice leisurely drives with stops of interest along the way.

[X5Flyboy]

Originally Posted by Aimster

empty parking lot, an inch of snow.
40mph, slammed brakes

X5 didn't want to stop. ABS was kicking in hard. Finally it stopped.

No snow tires.

No snow tires! So basically you're trying to brake a 5000lb tobaggon on ice. That's why I hate the claims of "all-season" tires. At least, now having experienced it, you know how to adjust your driving. Unfortunately, you still have to lookout for the idiots that don't realize that 4-wheel drive doesn't mean 4-wheel stop.

[we350z]

I went to the BMW Ultimate Driving Experience in 2000 when my dad bought an X5. We time trial raced 3's, the trans in one of them broke which was pretty funny. Anyway they did this test where they pitted a Jeep Grand Cherokee against the X5. The test was to drive up a 45 degree roller ramp. X5 Made it to the top, Jeep just stayed in place. Pretty dope but not sure what it proves hahaha.