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Originally Posted by Jeff SJ
Now that my X-5 is spending a fair amount of time in the snow of Park City, Utah, I'm looking into winter tire options. May go with a fairly aggressive all-season tire or maybe snow tires for the stock 18's. I'd like to upgrade to 19's or 20's for the summer and that way keep the 18's in their winter tires, just swap wheels instead when the season's change or when I'm in Socal for an extended time.
What options work with a non-sport pkg X5? 19s, 20s or both. Tire options(sizes). Pictures would help as well. I'm probably getting the stock wheels or replicas to match the stock look.
With regards to winter tires, recommendations? I am aware what tirerack has, wonder if any other less expensive options exist.
Jeff
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I put Nokian Hakka SUV's on my X5 and it is amazing on snow and ice. You can get them in the stock size from tiresbyweb.com. They aren't the cheapest but are definitely great tires.
I used the stock 18's for the snows and bought the 19 ich Y spoke 211 rims for the summer and put Toyo Proxes STII on them - was a compromise on the size to save a few bucks by not having to go with a staggered set up and I can rotate them front to back as they wear and get a few more miles out of them...
There are also far more tire choices in the 19 inch size.
The Toyos get great reviews and look pretty cool. Supposed to be really quiet.
In both cases I ditched the runflats and got the conticomfortkit from the Tirerack.
I'm practically giving away the oem tires that have less than 100 miles on them.
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