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In Reply to: Anybody share my thoughts about E28's in the snow? posted by Chad on March 04, 2001 at 23:53:29:
I used to drive a '73 Volvo 144 with the cheapest tires I could find. In snow, it easily outhandled my 535i with TRX.
Last year, we had two similar snowstorms two weeks apart. Just after the first storm, I drove around with the TRX tires, and they were so bad that my car could get snowbound in the middle of a level street.
Then I replaced the TRX rims with used 14" BMW honeycomb rims and Toyo 800 Ultras. The Toyos aren't snow tires- they're just all season tires whose notable quality is their tread life. The second storm came. I didn't get stuck once. I could even drive down my 500' unplowed driveway.
The other day I pulled out from a stop, turned onto a steep snow covered street and accelerated going uphill, with no slipping or sliding. With TRX tires, I've slowed to a stop trying to get up hills that were less steep, with a running start. One time when that happened, someone in a Honda pulled up next to me, stopped, asked me how I was, and pulled away, no problem.
The moral (chant this until it sinks in):
If you drive around in snow,
TRX has got to go.
Does anybody else feel that with a good set of snow tires (and a reasonably good driver), the E28, or any other BMW at that, is great in the snow? I'm constantly hounded by friends and family who believe that BMW’s should never be driven in the snow because RWD is sooooo bad in the snow and BMW’s are always on the side of the road when it snows. I honestly feel that of all the cars I have owned, a BMW with snow tires handles snow with no problem. I realize that if you have 18” Ultra-Performance tires on your E28 you are going to have a pretty rough time getting around, but so will anybody else in the same situation. I just can’t understand why everybody thinks RWD is so bad in the snow, when properly equipped with a good set of snow tires, can be as good as AWD.
Sorry for rant, just venting.
Chad
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