I'm with Dave on that, in fact my 240D is due for 2 new tires since I didn't
get an alignment done after changing UCAs last fall (stupid) and I'm torn as to
keeping the rears and getting a generic set of snows for the front or replacing
all 4. If I replace all 4 I'll go back to 185/whatever/14 that I had before,
right now its got 195/whatever/14 except for the spare which is a
205/whatever/14...
I let a slick tire salesman talk me into wider tires on my Dakota once, NEVER
AGAIN. With its v8 that thing was tricky in snow anyway, with the wider tires
it was a disaster in 2wd and only acceptable in 4wd.
-Curt
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:39:08 -0400
From: David & Kristin Gilmore <dandkgilm...@frontier.com>
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Winter tires/wheels
To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
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At 11:07 AM 10/14/2009, Donald H. Snook wrote:
>I found some snow tires mounted on BMW wheels for my car. I
>currently have 235/60/16 performance tires on my car. I found a set
>of nearly new Dunlop winter tires mounted. They are
>235/55/17. According to an online tire diameter calculator I found
>that represents a difference of only .26% in diameter. So, I think
>it will be okay to use these.
(snip)
In my experience the tire with the wider footprint (here the
235/55/17) is going to be less suitable for winter. Maybe the
different tread compound in the winter tire helps offset the effect,
but I notice narrow tires tend to dig in and bite while the fat ones
float on the surface and spin. I would go for as narrow a winter
tire as BMW recommends. Easier to put chains on too.
Dave Gilmore, Cameron WV
Superstitious belief can be thought of as a natural condition
of childhood.
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