I have one in my tintop and in this snow it's great
I certainly wish I had a slippy diff - 380bhp and RWD is no fun when you can't even get off your drive 
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Originally posted by RazMan
I certainly wish I had a slippy diff - 380bhp and RWD is no fun when you can't even get off your drive
It doesn't always help, last year in my M5 I dropped a card off at a mates, went to turn around at the bottom of his cul-de-sac (where everyone
else does so snow very compressed) couldn't get going again as it was a slight slope.
I was able to get out of the car at tickover (600rpm) in 2nd gear and watch both wheels going around - bit of an unconventional way to check your LSD
is working but hey 
Could have been embarrassing if it suddenly gripped!
As long as you keep some momentum though its great fun
[Edited on 1/12/10 by hobbsy]
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Originally posted by carpmart
My Lexus doesn't have any traction control or ABS ... and its an auto box too Last
time I went into town I got stuck on the High Street because I parked in an icy gutter - at tickover, all the power was simply spinning the wheel on
the ice!
trouble with m5 and other performance cars is the tyres are that wide that theres no grip when its snowy and icy, if you put some 135s on youd be fine.
Yeah, 275's on the back, maybe I should get a couple of space savers on there as cheap winter tyres