After much searching and reading, I decided to get a dedicated set of snow tires. (earlier post).

I put them on last week. They are Michelin Pilot Alpins. I went from the 19 in Performance tires to these in a 17/265.

From what I had read the tires are well liked. On dry pavement they were a tad louder than my Conti's, but road and handled fine.

This morning I tried them in about 3in of snow and seemed to work great.

Living in Buffalo we get a lot of snow and I park in an alley that might get plowed 3 times a year if we are lucky.

Are other car is an Expedition. We need the 4X4's just to get around and do a lot of driving in a long snowy winter.

Looking at the other post about the friend that wrecked someone else X. I am sure glad I did.

The car does not look too dorky with the 17's and hopefully not "girlish" as I have read in some other posts.

I scored the whole set up of 1 season old Michelins and wheels from Craiglist for $300.00!

They came off an X5 as well, cause the former owner traded theirs for a new one without the sport package this time, so they were laying around.

They told me the 19's were useless in any kind of snow.

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