19" Tire Options?

[Corellian Corvette]

Question for the forum. Have a set of 19" factory staggered Style 63 wheels on my X5. Stock sizes are 285/45r19 rear and 255/50r19 Front (on 10in and 9in wide wheels, respectively)

Problem is, there is literally only one set of matching tires available locally (Bridgestone Dueler), and they are summer tires. Price is pretty reasonable though.

Tire Rack has a few more options but all are pretty expensive - either summer tires from Pirelli or some very expensive snow tires.

What are other people running and has anyone found an affordable all-season?

[plasstik]

Check out cosmo tires.


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[Corellian Corvette]

Originally Posted by plasstik

Check out cosmo tires.

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Negative. Nothing available in either size.

[rwilson]

I run 20" in summer and drop back to 18" for winter. Craigslist etc normally have bmw wheels for under $500. That would open lots of options and you
would not have to fiddle with remounting every 6 months.

I'm currently running michlen x-ice II on bmw and blizzak ws80 on outback. Both perform well

[Corellian Corvette]

Well getting new wheels is going to be tough for the X5 since I don't want to go down to 18" for my 4.6is (I don't have the original 20" for this one)

However, I did play around with the numbers and if I go UP a tire size front and back, there are many more options.

For instance, if I increase the overall sidewall by ~ 3.5%, there are a lot more choices.

That means I would be running a 255/55r19 in front, and a 275/50r19 in rear. There is a less than 1% difference in size between the two tires so should be fine for AWD (there is a 0.3% diff between the factory ones, these tires have a 0.7% difference)

That's probably what I'm going to do. I don't think a little more sidewall will look bad on the SUV and at least I can get some affordable all-seasons.