snow performance

[realchef]

Drove extensively on snow and slush covered roads today. After reading JCL's comments, relaxed and "let the car do the work". The results were indeed above average. Car performed as should and did a great job.

Still had some slow speed cornering, plowing issues. The throttle cutting out occassionally doesn't really help, but it's livable.

Running 18 style 153 with vredestein wintrac 4 extreme

This was taken around noon after warming up and starting to melt.

[klnteg]

Nice picture. Looks beautiful there! Nice X also!

[JCL]

Realchef:

Glad to hear it worked OK.

I was up country the last few days, covered 1500 km in very poor conditions. The X3 did great; as you noted, there is occasional plowing at low speed but I found that I got around fine with the DSC on, including in deeper snow. We were on packed snow and ice most of the time, temperatures in the -20 C to -30 C range the whole trip.

One thing I did play with on this trip was the DSC switch. I had used it before on the X5 just to see what it did, but I found with the X3 that it functioned differently. With one push of the DSC button the DTC light came on, as expected. Holding it for ten seconds then lit up a second light labelled 4x4. I don't remember that from the X5, there was only one light IIRC. With the X5 you had to restart the car to reset it; with the X3, another push of the DSC button brings the system back to normal settings (DSC on). I never needed to turn the DSC off, even in deep snow or starting on a hill.