Project: 2014 328i xDrive Wagon F31

[Steve85]

Do you have the Matte Black or Gloss Black Kidneys? I am leaning Gloss black for mine.

Cant wait to see the splitter on.

Gloss black, it's the way to go since it is surrounded by gloss paint (IMHO)
The splitter is matte black and I've been toying with various paint options - fangs blue/black splitter; fangs black/blue splitter; all blue (but don't really like that). But I'm pretty sure I'm going to just leave it as is so it doesn't look all banged up over time.

How do you like the pilot SS's?  Leaning towards those for my next set.  I think I'm done trying to make all seasons work for everything on a FWD.

I like them. They are pretty grippy and even at this well worn stage have worn evenly and are still quiet. They are very responsive on turn-in.

Summer tires arent instant death in winter, either.

My 135 had them.  Still alive, car sold in one piece.

Yeah, just not sure I'd want to drive to WV ski resorts regularly on summers.

Steve, did you do the full press-and-hold to fully disable DTC? Just tapping the button once raises the threshold before it intervenes but doesn't disable completely. Depends how much hoonage you want to do.

My 128i would do really well in snow with DTC in "higher threshold" mode like you say. Open diff and all-seasons, nothing special. Glad this is doing well for you and those photos in the snow look great!

I didn't, should have. I'll try it again next spring when it snows again. I was reading about what is the best mode and people generally debate between the middle and full off and that's probably mostly driving style.

This made me think though, that book with all the instructions we've been talking about, instead of a long name "Manual of Instructions for the Owner That Fits in Glovebox" we could shorten it to "The Jake".  

That 3/4 shot is money. Great color.

Thanks, I'm really liking it, it's not getting old.