N.I.C.E find.. black wheels not so much for me either, but old school here..

You're in MINN and going all-season? I know 20" are diff to find affordable, but .. uhmm.. all-season in MINN? lol

you should do some shweet roosters with a 4.6 dinan, heheh.

Shes a beaut! I live in Minneapolis MN as well and i'm pretty sure i've seen you around Uptown! I should be picking up an X5 sometime soon as well.

Are you saying I should go with a dedicated winter setup? I really need to confirm I can fit 19s under the 380mm front brakes. I think I can but the 20s seem to barely clear. 19x9 with 265s would save a lot of $ over the factory 20 inch snow tire options.



You must have seen my M3? I haven't taken the X to uptown until tonight actually.


I have around 600 of my own miles on the truck so far. It really does many things well. It cruises comfortably, handles like a BMW when you need it to, goes like a sports car in a strait line, and can haul a decent amount of cargo.

My gfs entire family thought I bought it brand new, and my neighbor guessed it was a 2011. I've gotten a few compliments from strangers on the street. My intern loves going to lunch with me now.

I feel very blessed to be in a position to own one of these trucks. Worth every penny.....

IT was your M that I saw several times. It'll be nice to see a modified X around here! Any plans to bring it by cars and coffee sometime?

I've been upper midwest a good share of 20 years, and yes I'd recommend a snow set-up. Presuming you can store them, they're little extra trouble, last a long time and let's face it, weather gets STEWPID ugly here in just the time it takes to realize that you need to leave early cuz it might get stewpid ugly.. real snows had me traveling RWD up my stewpid incline driveway through 12" of new-fallen, my wife's FWD all-season, not-so-much (which is how we wound up getting the Xer in the first place, LOL)

but yeah, 20 inchers are precious, price-wise. That said, I found a great price on my conti's Local, and the store stores 'em for me off-season, so it's worth a couple calls (see who tire-rack recommends in your area for installs, then price the narrowest extreme-contact you can find).

If YOU had paid for the brakes, you'd be out a Chunk o' cash, so mebbe do some creative math and apply a discount to the snow setup? it's what I do <grin>

Thanks for your input. I LOVED my snow tires on my M3. I got through anything, and I had it lowered all the way down on coil-overs.

Re: Brakes. I thought about parting them out, $3000+ in my pocket is awfully enticing. Then I could throw on the stock brakes and get away with 18's or 19's in the winter.

I have a guy who does the tire installs for me for free if I buy tires from him, and he can price match anything online. So that is a plus, but I'm just not sure I can stomach $2500 for 20" 87s and another $1500 for winter tires. I also have a beater I drive in the winter too.

For now I will go through my Pirellis, when those die, throw on the Toyos. When the first big snow comes... pray !

By the way I paid $14k for the truck.

Now that is awesome on the price! For all that work, for that money? Awesome. Yea know, what I really want is factory calipers, but dressed up. So you know on the AMG Merc's, once you step up to AMG they install 4 to 6 piston calipers that say either AMG or Mercedes Benz on them? I don't know if I am not looking close enough, but it just seems like BMW's, don't do that. Not with Alpina or AC stuff. I see stuff on Google that people have M on their calipers, but I think those are just covers. I dunno.

These are 8 piston Brembo calipers and 380mm rotors, there is nothing factory about this setup.

My truck was for sale for over a month, I can't believe even after all of my stalling... we finally got the deal done. You should have bought this one, sorry :)

From one Bimmer guy to another, if a member was buying my car, I'd be patient without a doubt. If it was a guy off the street; "You pay me NOWWWWW damnit!!!"

Yeah you know, I actually didn't see that one. I rarely wander off X outpost. Until you mentioned it, I forgot I was a member on bimmerforums.com. I looked in the FS section and saw the one you bought, and then under it I saw an Imola Red that I was interested in. I contacted the seller a week or so ago, trying to make a deal. He had it listed on e-bay and it sold, but I guess it didn't because I saw it back on there and the other day he bumped the thread. SO i guess it didn't sell after all. Go figure.

But yours is great, but I wanted Black Sapphire not Silver and I like simplicity. All the extras are just too much. I wouldn't be able to handle it. Then again, I wouldn't mind the M3 Steering wheel, or the brakes, or... Eh F it, I LOVE IT lol.