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DWS06 Plus fixed the soft sidewall issues and competes extremely well with Pilot Sport A/S 4 and even exceeds the performance of Michelin. My dad just put the new Plus on his 535d and they do feel better for sure than his retired non Plus.

I just wouldn’t depend on DWS in really horrible conditions. I drove my car last year winter with new 4 month old DWS06 “non Plus” and I went out in similar conditions as two days ago. The experience was very hairy forcing me to put the car back on the driveway immediately. Way too much understeer and it took too much time for the rear to gain back traction once it was partially lost.

If you run those tires on AWD then you might get by but be mindful that you will need extra space for deceleration compared to winters and pick your battles wisely.

I ran Blizzak winter performance LM60s on my E46 M3 for 5 winters (approx 10-12k per season with lots of hard throttle) without too much issue in deep heavy snow. Winter #6 became noticeably less dependable in deep snow so I had to be mindful of heavy snow storms (which still beat A/S tires) but dry/wet was still amazing other than tread squirm/softness that I don’t feel with PA4s.