» Site Navigation | | » Recent Threads | | | 1999 M3 Swap 09-07-2023 10:10 PM 06-01-2024 03:04 PM 7 Replies, 409,829 Views | | My 318ti build 05-21-2024 04:48 PM 05-28-2024 06:42 PM 1 Replies, 3,616 Views | | OMG!OMG! 05-28-2024 08:53 AM 05-28-2024 08:53 AM 0 Replies, 1,436 Views | | | | | 11-23-2006, 09:11 PM | #1 | Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 1,152 | Is it time to put away those summer tires? Okay the temp is getting colder up here in MA/NE area. I just changed over to my 15" all season set of wheels. Summer M3 wheels are going to storage until next year. When do you put on the REAL winter tires or just use all season all year round? Winter is coming! Have a set of winter tires waiting for the white stuffs. | | | 11-23-2006, 10:22 PM | #2 | Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Greenville, SC Posts: 9,356 | I usually swap tires on the first warm weekend after Thanksgiving. It's supposed to be 60 in my area this weekend. 3 cars, 3 sets of snow tires. That's 12 tires I need to carry up a flight of stairs and 12 that need to go down. __________________ ...steven BMW CCA #146825 1996 BMW 328ti • 2003 MINI Cooper S • 2016 M235i www.bmwcca.org | | | 11-23-2006, 10:23 PM | #3 | Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Port St. Johns, Florida Posts: 2,242 | Snow Tires...LOL what are those? | | | 11-23-2006, 10:41 PM | #4 | Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Greenville, SC Posts: 9,356 | Quote: Originally Posted by Panzer_M Snow Tires...LOL what are those? | Someday you can tell us about this phenomena called hurricanes. __________________ ...steven BMW CCA #146825 1996 BMW 328ti • 2003 MINI Cooper S • 2016 M235i www.bmwcca.org | | | 11-23-2006, 10:43 PM | #5 | Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Bremerhaven, Germany Posts: 977 | Air conditioning, who really needs that? Folks here are just finishing the change to winter tires. A few stragglers will wait until the first imminent frost or snow. | | | 11-23-2006, 10:51 PM | #6 | Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Central NJ Posts: 2,440 | I switched to my "winter" set a month ago. 15" 185 Steelies with all purpose tires is what I use. | | | 11-24-2006, 03:46 AM | #7 | Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 4 | Studded I just put the studs on mine. This makes me feel a little more like Bond. | | | 11-24-2006, 03:50 AM | #8 | Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Clearwater, Florida Posts: 153 | Winter Tires? o.O? What is this thing you call "Winter". And, couldnt you just use all year tires--uhh..All year round? | | | 11-24-2006, 04:01 AM | #9 | Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 4 | You Could but... Winter tires are effectively "softer" than normal or all season tires. You'll wear the crap out of them if you keep driving them when it gets warm. This was new to me until I moved "up here." Also when you have a light weight rear end, like a 318ti can even put "balast" i.e. toolbox's. The metal studs wear down pretty quickly if you drive year round. | | | 11-24-2006, 04:04 AM | #10 | Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 4 | All season Sorry, all the things I just mentioned are because all seasons rarely provide enough traction for rear wheel drive vehicles with light rear ends when climbing snowy icy etc. | | | 11-24-2006, 03:24 PM | #11 | Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Ithaca, NY Posts: 77 | Quote: Originally Posted by 1996 328ti Someday you can tell us about this phenomena called hurricanes. | lol, you beat me to it. snow deffinatly sucks but at least its predictable in some sense. i still have my summer tires on my Ti... we got a little bit of snow last week and it still seemed to handle well. im taking my Ti off the road for the winter (probly next week) b/c i kept my old pontiac for a winter beater. i just dont want the Ti to see any of upstate ny's nasty road salt. | | | 11-24-2006, 05:57 PM | #12 | Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Port St. Johns, Florida Posts: 2,242 | Quote: Originally Posted by John Firestone Air conditioning, who really needs that? Folks here are just finishing the change to winter tires. A few stragglers will wait until the first imminent frost or snow. | +1 to no a/c...BMW gave us windows(as flawed as they are) for a reason | | | 11-24-2006, 06:01 PM | #13 | Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Port St. Johns, Florida Posts: 2,242 | Btw, they can show a "cane" forming on the coast of Africa, then the week/weeks it takes to form up into a depression, Tropical Storm, Then the Stages of a True Hurricane, so we know the statis of the things fairly well. Plus the Weatherman, get a hard-on when talking the hurricane talk down here, it's their big time in the limelight from other than stepping outside and saying.....the weather is.......Nice! but Snowies, don't worry in a few more years, Global Warming is coming....so you too can have a 80 degree Xmas.(I'll have moved to the new Tropics of Siberia by then myself) | | | | Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | | Posting Rules | You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts HTML code is Off | | | Similar Threads | Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post | BMW Oem Amp rating. | ubiquity | Interior and ICE | 0 | 05-23-2006 11:55 PM | |