First snow encounter
 

Yep, the X had its first snow encounter on weekend. Here's a pic. Not the best of lighting, but you guys get the idea, overall a very fun weekend of plenty snowboarding :thumbup: We rented 4 cars, and I was the only one driving my own car :) Oh, and 1 full tank for the whole trip :wow: (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?

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

awesome...I can't wait for the snow again...having the X5 in it was a blast.

im looking forward to this winter to test out the X

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).

Yep. 3.0Diesel.


:) And just for that that, we have to travel 6 hours to reach the snow.

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!

I had the same problem, the x had the washer fluid that the dealer had put in there, so i put the X in a friends garage and drained all the fluid, added new 100% fluid NO WATER and i had no more problems during the winter :thumbup:

Oh that's not snow...just a light dusting.

THIS is snow!

http://xoutpost.com/gallery/files/1/0/1/0/Mtns2.JPG

http://xoutpost.com/gallery/files/1/0/1/0/Snow3.JPG

http://xoutpost.com/gallery/files/1/0/1/0/Snow2.JPG

People have been driving around on "all season" tires for too long - moved out here to eastern Idaho 4 yrs ago (exactly) :dancing: - drove back to NJ for Christmas :woot: - My brother-in-law asked if I had any problems on the trip because he noticed I had a different wheel on the back :confused: - I reminded him what we used to do years ago... OK decades ago, I had on snow tires. :rolleyes:

I agree if you want to play in the snow then get real snow tires!
All seasons won't cut it. They will get you by but you will have much better traction, stopping and turning with dedicated snows.
If you are spending 40-70K on a car and your family is in it then $1500 for a set of wheels with snows is well worth it.
OK I will get off my soap box again ;)

Dedicated snow tires is the way to go. Last winter I played with X5 in the the mall parking lot late night and the Dunlop Wintersport on 18" wheels held like teeth on the ground.

You can snowboard down that roof! :bustingup . Well, the apartment we rented was at the foot of the snowy mountain, which only get snowed in during the coldest month of the year (i.e. July-ish)

Here's the actual slope where we snowboarded.