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Originally Posted by Logicoeur
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Originally Posted by Skyhigh
Why anyone would downgrade from XDrive to RWD (except to just fool arround) is a puzzle.
How people are simply trusting some app developers who have:
- Zero insight into the design of the vehicle
- Zero insight into the margins of the components
- Zero resources and ability to perform comprehensive testing
- Zero liability if something happen as a direct result of their product
is even a bigger puzzle.
Guys, this is not turning your ambi light from orange to blue. This is directly related to safety! Yours and of those around you.
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By this logic, how does anyone make aftermarket parts that sell and are safe? Is your car entirey stock? Doubt it. Your logic is extremely flawed here, or just purely naive.
I own xdrive for its practicality, living in NE. If it weren't for the short summers I would have purchased a rwd. The driving dynamics of rwd are night and day as far as feel and control. This is why the vast majority of track ready vehicles come in rwd config. You can't just call it a downgrade. One is better for daily driving in more regions of the country all year. One is better for 10/10s driving and daily driving in fewer parts of the country year round.
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Originally Posted by FastF30
I bought my car just because its an Xdrive.... I was in traffic and a spot diagonally from me opened up and I floored it and yanked the wheel... the car just went... if that was RWD I'd be posting pictures of a smashed rear quarter panel from fish tailing...
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Again this here is flawed, or just confused? What does one edge case paint about the overall use case for such a feature that can be toggled? Nothing at all.
There are many instances where xdelete can be useful. BMW could see the same since they introduced it to the new M5. As with all of these things, the tech will trickle down to the rest of their products in due time. |
Yes, my vehicle is stock, apart from MPPSK, which is a product of people with full insight and unquestionable competence.
But you are missing the point here. Everyone willing to test something like what we are discussing here is effectively a guinea pig.
And it is one thing to be a guinea pig for a new interior trim or even a new exhaust system or air filter, completely different for a modified drivetrain software in a highly integrated modern vehicle, where every line of code relies on the integrity of the entire system!!
Ask the developer for a system safety assessment, software development standard, design assurance level? Ask at least for a liability statement?
You will get none of those. Ask yourself why. Or don't, but stick to the track only, please.
And last but not least - the home country of BMW has an incredibly low accident rate, despite no speed limit on the highway. Why? One of the reasons is that one is not allowed to install a headlight bulb that has no approval for use in the specific vehicle...