wife's 325XI needs snow tires - recommendations?

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Nov 16, 2004 | 10:53 AM

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jacksonpt

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Originally Posted by X-AWDriver

I can see snow tires being good if the snow stayed on the ground but once you're on dry pavement they will wear quickly.

That's fine - the car is leased, and the lease is up next March (in 15 months, not this coming March). As long as the tires last that long (probably 10-12k miles, at the ABSOLUTE most), I'm happy. That's part of the reason I didn't want to drop the money on the Blizzaks if I didn't have to.

Nov 16, 2004 | 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by EDGE

Thats why I asked cause I remember learning in tech school that Mercedes Benz 4Matic was a traction control thing and then BMW came out with a similiar setup but that was several years ago and I want to know if what their advertising is actually AWD in the sence that we all know what 4wd/awd is.

Whatever BMW is using is fairly new (at least in the States). My wife's car is in 03, and I believe it was the second year for "AWD" on the 3 series. They were supposed to come out with AWD on the 5 series this year, but they couldn't get all the performance bugs worked out, so the nixed the idea. Pissed a lot of people off from what my dealer buddy tells me.

Nov 16, 2004 | 11:01 AM

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Winterforce tires will easily last 10-12K miles.

Nov 16, 2004 | 11:38 AM

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Winterforce tires will easily last 10-12K miles.

yea, that's what I figured. Any decent tire should get 20-25k I would think. We'll run them this winter, go back to the factory tires for summer, run the Winterforces again next summer, then get rid of the car.