What do you think of these wheels for winter?

[LeMansX5]

Originally Posted by cmansbimmer

Yeah, but I don't want to dismount and mount winter tires to performance tires on my truck each season. For one, with runflats (the high performance tires that come with the truck are RFT's), the odds of damaging the wheel greatly increases every time you go through this process. Second, it's just too much of a pain in the butt to do this. It's much easier having 2 sets of wheels with tires for the variety of seasons. Since the 20's that come with the car have the high performance tires (they're not even all seasons), I'm going to have to get new tires regardless. I figure I'll just powdercoat these 18" wheels a Gunmetal color and they'll look great for the winter. Sure, they won't look like the 20's, but they'll be fine. Plus, this is the wifes car. She probably wouldn't even notice the difference. Hahahahaha!

PS - I'm running the stock 19" M5 wheels for winter on my M5. I have the Blizzak LM-22's (255/40/19) at all 4 corners. The car handles amazing. Unfortunately with the X5, I'm doing the opposite, in that it comes with 20's, but I'm downgrading to 18's for winter. With the M, I bought a set of 20" Radenergie R10's for Summer and kept the stockers for winter.

I was not suggesting that you use the same set of 20". You have to have 2 sets. Mounting and dismounting tires is not good for integrity of tires.

Also agree with Wagner's comment. Winter also brings more potholes to NY roads.