You should really try to find a set of inexpensive rims for your snows - it would save wear and tear on your nice wheels and it's a heck of alot easier to just change 'em yourself.

Early April for me.

Actually, my plan is to put on the M+S this spring, and they should wear out by the time winter rolls around again. Then I will mount the winter tires on the stock 17" rims, and at the same time buy a 18" summer wheel + tire package to swap in the future. Then when next spring rolls around, I will just pop in the 18" wheels and summer tires.

In reality, the 17" handle just fine, and its not like the 2.5 has enough power to overwhelm the 17" tires in the corner except on tight corners when my foot is to the floor and DSC is off. However, 18s look more substantial on the X3, and I've never been a huge fan of the Style 111s that came with my X3.

Or maybe I should save up that money towards the purchase of a used E46. Hmm.......

I wish I had wheels to switch out. But suprisingly the 19's did alright with the snow here.

I did my big "spring cleaning" the other week. Oh course it blizzarded the next day..grr...but hey the interior looks great. Maybe next week I will wash it again and zymol the inside.

I rolled on 20"s all winter and never had a problem. They did a great job clearing the roads this year and we didn't get much.

You think they did a good job clearing the roads here? I guess the main ones were alright. But side streets were bad. I def used my all wheel drive to park on some snow banks a couple of times.

My way sucked, both "storms" put about 8" in my area and the roads until the Interstate were crap.

I live near a main thoroughfare and less than 2 miles from 495/395 so I never have to drive much on side streets. When I mentioned that they did a good job this year, I was mostly talking about the contractors in my 'hood, cause they were out as soon as the first flake fell with the plows and salt. Where VDOT was responsible, I had no complaints and in downtown DC (Penn Quarter) DCPW had it all cleared, but that's the first part of town they get to, as you probably know.

+1. Lanes would disappear and reappear out of nowhere, and the slush left over quickly froze. One incident with a disappearing lane and not-well-cleared slush on I-270 put the X3's braking abilities to the test, something I've never done up until that point.

BUT MDOT's job was amazing compared to what PennDOT did. Or what they didn't do.

Haha yeah we had a couple of disappearing lanes. Glad the X3's brake stood up to the test!