4.8iS donuts in the snow
 

That snow it just a bit too thick, I bet you car really toss it around in 1-2 inches.

My 4.6 will see its first Minnesota winter soon. Every new car I buy I always like to get it in an open area and test the handling limits on snow.

What some men call donuts, I call driver education. :D

Sorry to hijack the thread Terminator, BTW cool vid....brrrr I hate winter!

epdarks, will be the first winter for my 4.6 too, what are you planning to do for tires? I have a second set of 20'' rims that I was planning on getting winter tires for but man they are expensive to get. you planning the same?

I have Pirelli snow and ice run flats on the stock 87s. Not a lot of tread left, I will try them and go from there.

Debating buying a second set of 20" to put my Toyos on for summer. I always prefer a dedicated winter tire set, but 87s are rare and expensive.

Thanks ep. When I bought mine it had replica chrome 87's on it that are all corroded and ended up finding a mint set of oem 87's so I have the crappy rims just now have to pick up the tires. Again, not cheap for the 20's but will likely bite the bullet and get them as my wife will freak if she doesn't have winter tires and I do:). If anyone knows where to pick up winter 20's at a good price Im all ears.

Winter is my favorite time of year. Driving in the snow is one of my passions. When I bought my X5 earlier this year thats all I could think off is how much fun I will have this coming winter. Going to be awesome.

Yea same here. I love putting the snow shoes on in early December and waitin for that first snow fall. 09 and 10 were awesome snow years. 2011 was a HUGE disappointment. Only 3 inches of snow TOTAL. It BLEW!

that video was taken somewhere in europe, not in russia, but when i was in russia, the local requirement was to have winter shoes as of Oct 1 until March 31, or something like that... that much snow is normal on the side streets in moscow and just about anywhere outside of city limits (I had a 41 km radius restriction from kremlin, so i could not venture too deep into a countryside). I never had a chance to try out the 20" summer tires in that snow, but the 18" winter setup in style 74 with pirelli scorpions was doing fine...

on the other hand, about 20-25 years ago, when i was in mutha russia, i had a chance to witness a 6x6 with inflatable/deflatable tires (with an individual airpump) personnel truck venture off road into a 6 foot deep snow... The snow was to the window rim on a huge military truck and I thought for sure we were gonna get stuck there until the spring in late May, where our frozen bodies, mine and the driver, would have been found, hugging each other... The dude dropped the air pressure in the tires, and was making the donuts in that deep snow with a huge truck... back then they did not have video equipment to record this for the history, so it is reflected just in my memory... lol...

all these russian videos off youtube... you must know how to read russian now?

And by the way I ordered the usb obd cable with the software for almost 40$ from the ebay romainian, so it should be here by the end of October than i will need some basic coding help if you dont mind. thanks

Um Term is Russian, or russian-ish, lol.

Term, do you need to use VMware to run NCS? Thanks. I gotta get that cold monitoring off. I think that is what kills the Angel Eye Leds.

this one
BMW USB OBD Diagnostic cable INPA Ediabas DIS SSS GT1 | eBay

apparently its a portable prog where you extract and run?

Looks like a blast!

sorry i dont get it, next thing you know the owner is on a forum bleating what a piece of sh*T X5,s are always breaking down, yeah any wonder

Don't get what??? Doing donuts in the snow? Damn man my first donut just felt natural. Almost like i was supposed to do it. Its 2nd nature in the snow now. :dunno:

i guess i treat my vehicles differently to others, i want mine to last so treat them accordingly.

however each to there own

:iagree: ALways bothers me to see these videos.. its like abuse

bmw 4.6 can't drift - YouTube Stupidity at its finest

lol... I am fluent in russian, as slick said earlier... I also understand a bit of spanish as I have studied full-time spanish for 8 weeks non-stop and worked in Latin america for a couple of years and can pick up a word or two in turkish...

The cable is the one, it will connect you via OBD II to the car's electronics, including the iBus, but the software that came with it is a bitch to install... Once installed correctly, you will be able to get to various functions of the car...

I think the NCS does not call for the VM environment, just the correct port settings... check the bmwcoders.com and bmwcoding.com before venture into the TRW file - make sure you SAVE the original file and BACKUP the original file in several places... there are other pieces of software that you might want to get for the NCS programming...

you might want to consider deleting corner lights, activating the fogs with the highbeams, if you have Nav, then synching the car clock with the GPS clock, deleting the gong for the key in ignition and seat belt... those are the things that i managed to do on mine.

things that i could NOT do were the windows rolling nonstop while doors are ajar, windows and sunroof closing with a key press, and the angels eyes operate as DRL

Yea I have all the software possible already. Just weeding through it all. Stupid ass VMware won't set up on my laptop. Something to do with my processor not supporting it. So that is my hang up right now. Can you believe it, I still didn't finish setting it all up. I've had the cables software, and laptop forever now. Shit.

you may have to go in to your BIOS and enable Virtualization support or VT, then try loading VMware.

Thanks. I didn't think of that.