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08-21-2005, 08:09 PM
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First snow encounter
 We rented 4 cars, and I was the only one driving my own car  Oh, and 1 full tank for the whole trip  (close to 1000km trip overall)And there was this night when it was 0.5 degrees celcius, and when I tried starting the X it did nothing for 2 secs (displayed on OBC was "PREHEATING") and then it started. Is this normal? Last edited by yjansen; 08-21-2005 at 08:18 PM. 
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08-21-2005, 08:37 PM
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Diesel, I suspect?
O degs C is not that cold to most of us North Americans for "winter". Dunno what preheating would be, other than glow plugs in your RuddyD motor. BR,m
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08-21-2005, 09:13 PM
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awesome...I can't wait for the snow again...having the X5 in it was a blast.
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08-21-2005, 10:42 PM
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I bought my '01 X in LA, it never saw snow until it was 2 years old and I got it back to Long Island. The first snow encounter was with the 19" sport rims/tires, and let me tell ya, it wasn't pretty. I was heading over to a friends house and the X turned into a sled as i drove down a hill. I slid right across a 4 lane road like the X was on ice skates and narrowly avoided hitting a school bus and 2 cars. Suffice to say the '04 has 18's and I'm anxiously awaiting the first blizzard to hit "north and west of the city" (a phrase NY/NY/CT/LI people know all too well is the area the gets hit hardest in the tri state area).
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08-21-2005, 11:31 PM
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And just for that that, we have to travel 6 hours to reach the snow.
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08-22-2005, 12:27 AM
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LOL last January we had a whole week where every single day it was a high of -15*C and a low of -25*C.
With the wind overnight it was between -30*C and -40*C. Blanket anyone? Hehehe when you gave gas in the X5, it was so cold that the vaporized exhaust fumes became huge, and I looked like a choo-choo train! By the way, frost bite can be achieved in under 5 minutes under those conditions. The X5's washer fluid lines froze during those days!
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08-22-2005, 01:47 AM
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08-22-2005, 03:37 AM
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People have been driving around on "all season" tires for too long - moved out here to eastern Idaho 4 yrs ago (exactly)
 - drove back to NJ for Christmas  - My brother-in-law asked if I had any problems on the trip because he noticed I had a different wheel on the back  - I reminded him what we used to do years ago... OK decades ago, I had on snow tires. 
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