Stuck on pavement!
 

Today I pulled off the road and angled onto a steeply declining driveway. My front right tire was on the decline and the left rear was on the road. When I attempted to back out, my left rear tire burned rubber continuously. I have a 01' 4.4, but I thought that the brake system would kick in to stop the spinning wheel and transfer power to the wheels with traction. I tried the DSC on and off, tried using the handbrake, and finally had some people sit on the tailgate to weight the rear tire and backed out. Shouldn't a four wheel drive vehicle be able to handle this situation?

Coincidentally the exact same thing just happened to me (weird timing...), I even looked up make sure that ALL x5 are supposed to have the "permanently engaged four wheel drive".
I too am surprised: shouldn't a limited slip prevent that?
Any suggestions?

I don't think we have limited slip, we have open differentials, the ABS breaking is supposed to prevent wheel spin. I know newer X5's have an even more sophisticated system.

what is awd or 4wd worth if you loose power to 3 wheels when 1 spins. . .

i would have expected more from the bmw engineers, at least some sort of limited slip :mad:

Right! It's embarrassing. That wouldn't have happened with my Jeep Grand Cherokee.

we did get more from BMW engineers... with the Xdrive system.

if you turned your DSC off, you should have been able to drive...check this article http://www.xoutpost.com/showthread.ph...&highlight=dsc
oops, wrong article.....there is an article on here about the problem you have, just can't find it right now.
here it is http://www.xoutpost.com/showthread.ph...&highlight=dsc