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Originally Posted by Mr.Impatient
I have seen many threads about performance in snow and I'm sorry if this subject has been beat to death, but I'm asking the current and past X5 owners to put in their two cents about driving in snow (your average trip to the mountains for a vacation). I assume snow tires are a requirement and you should stay out of the deep stuff.
Those Clarkson videos make the X5 and X6 look useless on anything other than dry pavement.
TIA
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I agree with everyone else about tires and if you travel very seldom chains. IMO the run flats, even in all season form, do not seem to perform that well in wet snow and icy snow. I assume because they are stiff. Here it is hills and snow not flat and snow. With the new X5 I am going with a dedicated winter tire and wheel combo. Did BMW not in 07 have a commerical showing an X5 with two wheels on ice and two wheels on dry pavement on a steep hill to show how well it works. It really gets to the right tire and not a crazy size and all should be fine. Any car can look foolish with the wrong tires on it. Take my run flats and throw them on a LMS race car and see what happens.