Quattro > xDrive. On the B7 Audi, It was a simpler, all mechanical system so that is appealing to me and it drove more seamless in managing its traction.
The TC on the BMW is garbage, which doesnt help things. When the wheels slip under power, the power cut is far too intrusive so its best to just turn it off. Small slip angles the TC isnt too bad but its annoying. I think one of the things thats working against me on winter traction is the tires. The wheels I bought came with a set of Pilot Sport A/S 3, which had fair reviews on snow/winter traction on tire rack. After I curbed a tire in a parking lot (long story) I replaced both front tires with the A/S 3+ (because AWD) which has better snow/winter traction. Long story short, its not as smooth as the Audi in distributing power at slower speeds.
Now that I'm done geeking out about it, the car drives just fine in shit weather and I'm far more limited by the all-season tires than the drive system, and I think I dont like it as much because its typical BMW over-engineering. The few times the car got out of line it was easy to correct and pull through using the throttle and once you're moving, TC off, it does just fine and you're not going to get stuck unless you get stupid. This weekend was probably the worst case scenario for winter driving - it was 50* and raining when we got to Thomas at 6:30pm and by morning it was 10*F with 1-2" of fresh snow and still coming down hard - anything that was wet the night before had frozen under it. Route 32 & the park road was sanded (salt doesnt work when its that cold), but yeah, a little nervous going out. The car eats up highway miles though, drove really, really nice getting out there.
tl;dr you should buy one.
But if $400 battery replacements scare you, buy a CPO F31 instead.
The TC on the BMW is garbage, which doesnt help things. When the wheels slip under power, the power cut is far too intrusive so its best to just turn it off. Small slip angles the TC isnt too bad but its annoying. I think one of the things thats working against me on winter traction is the tires. The wheels I bought came with a set of Pilot Sport A/S 3, which had fair reviews on snow/winter traction on tire rack. After I curbed a tire in a parking lot (long story) I replaced both front tires with the A/S 3+ (because AWD) which has better snow/winter traction. Long story short, its not as smooth as the Audi in distributing power at slower speeds.
Now that I'm done geeking out about it, the car drives just fine in shit weather and I'm far more limited by the all-season tires than the drive system, and I think I dont like it as much because its typical BMW over-engineering. The few times the car got out of line it was easy to correct and pull through using the throttle and once you're moving, TC off, it does just fine and you're not going to get stuck unless you get stupid. This weekend was probably the worst case scenario for winter driving - it was 50* and raining when we got to Thomas at 6:30pm and by morning it was 10*F with 1-2" of fresh snow and still coming down hard - anything that was wet the night before had frozen under it. Route 32 & the park road was sanded (salt doesnt work when its that cold), but yeah, a little nervous going out. The car eats up highway miles though, drove really, really nice getting out there.
tl;dr you should buy one.
(01-14-2018, 08:39 PM).RJ Wrote: tl;dr you should buy one.
But if $400 battery replacements scare you, buy a CPO F31 instead.