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Originally Posted by Overboost
Love our X in the snow too. It's a little more sketchy on 275/315 extreme contact DWS06 Conti tires but still solid. I leave the E46 in the garage, it's a nightmare and white knuckle event in those conditions.
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I wore out my 255s so I have the 235 winters on and the timing couldn't be better.
In Chicago right now and the side streets were never plowed from the last 9-10" So it's ice ruts but I have no problem even driving up out of the rut if I want.
I got wifes X5 stuck beyond words l from the previous storm though: o didn't realize the pile of snow in the alley wasn't just a drift but was where people shoveled their 4 car parking pad into the alley and a tall pickup truck mowed it flat down to about 14".
Well that worked really well to lift the body of wife's X5 a couple inches off the springs so no weight on the tires and spinning all four.
Two and then four and finally six college kids came to help push but didn't move an Inch.
Shoveling didn't help because three tires were already not holding their weight, shoveling under the tires made it worse.
By some miracle I had my rescue pulley in my wife's car.
Hooked that up to a power pole 30' away with my tow rope and a couple down straps to reach the car.
5-7 solid tugs on the 4:1 pulley system and the car starts moving.
Until the 1200# (2000+ burst) tiedown snapped!
Poor volunteers fell at cartoon speeds.
Got a stronger (3000# burst) tiedown strap and then it was short work to pull the car back about 10' where the rears had enough weight back on them to self propel.
With the 235s I've driven through 15' of fresh snow plowing the top 5", I've driven through 10" of fluffy snow cross-country and through 6" of wet snowball packing snow also cross country (actually that may have been on the 255s).
Capable no doubt.