I bought my '01 X in LA, it never saw snow until it was 2 years old and I got it back to Long Island. The first snow encounter was with the 19" sport rims/tires, and let me tell ya, it wasn't pretty. I was heading over to a friends house and the X turned into a sled as i drove down a hill. I slid right across a 4 lane road like the X was on ice skates and narrowly avoided hitting a school bus and 2 cars. Suffice to say the '04 has 18's and I'm anxiously awaiting the first blizzard to hit "north and west of the city" (a phrase NY/NY/CT/LI people know all too well is the area the gets hit hardest in the tri state area).

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