Winter wheels 35is

Ahhh the pleasures of rear wheel drive, BMW want £1750 plus cost of sensors plus 90 quid to swap over and store the summer alloys for my M135i so not far off 2K :rofl: Needless to say mines going in the garage for winter today and out with the reserve :)

Its almost worth buying an old car fit it with all season tyres and your good to go at a fraction of the cost and flog the car again in spring. You probably wouldn't lose anything if you buy cheap enough.

Tim.
 
TitanTim said:
Ahhh the pleasures of rear wheel drive, BMW want £1750 plus cost of sensors plus 90 quid to swap over and store the summer alloys for my M135i so not far off 2K :rofl: Needless to say mines going in the garage for winter today and out with the reserve :)

Its almost worth buying an old car fit it with all season tyres and your good to go at a fraction of the cost and flog the car again in spring. You probably wouldn't lose anything if you buy cheap enough.

Tim.
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Hope we'll be ok this winter tim !
It's never been a problem in 12 years of owning bm's so hope this years the same. It's more the state the roads get in rather than anything else.
Our other car has 20's on it so it's not feasible for winter tyres :headbang:
 
KERMIT1970 said:
TitanTim said:
Ahhh the pleasures of rear wheel drive, BMW want £1750 plus cost of sensors plus 90 quid to swap over and store the summer alloys for my M135i so not far off 2K :rofl: Needless to say mines going in the garage for winter today and out with the reserve :)

Its almost worth buying an old car fit it with all season tyres and your good to go at a fraction of the cost and flog the car again in spring. You probably wouldn't lose anything if you buy cheap enough.

Tim.
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Hope we'll be ok this winter tim !
It's never been a problem in 12 years of owning bm's so hope this years the same. It's more the state the roads get in rather than anything else.
Our other car has 20's on it so it's not feasible for winter tyres :headbang:
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Problem is you can't predict the weather, when I got stranded in the 1 Series in 2010 it was on 18" summer runflats and in all honesty was hellish and nicely dented my confidence in driving any rear wheel drive car on runflats. Following winter I forked out £1250 for a set of BMW winters and it didn't snow all winter and then traded the car in for the Z4 so what a waste of money that was. Its just a gamble and there lies the problem. 80% of the time you will probably be OK but just needs a cold snap with decent snowfall and ice and its bad times if you need the car on a daily basis. I found it quite stressful to be honest always wandering if it was going to snow that day, hence why I decided to fit appropriate rubber to the Z3 and just stick the other car in the garage for winter. People take the hiss for me doing that but I'm safe in the knowledge I will be able to get around in most weathers stress free.

Tim.
 
If it works for you Tim who cares :thumbsup:
My sons learning to drive so got him a wee polo to learn in,might become the family car during snow lol :D
 
Many years ago, (1980) a pal of mine was stuck at the bottom of a snow covered hill out in rural weardale. He was in a Saab 95 - a front wheel drive car on ordinary rubber.
My old MGB on winter (rears only) got to the top! I've had winter rubber ever since.

When you sell the car, a set of winter wheels always sell for decent money if you sell at the right time, so they don't cost a fortune over a few years of use.

Buy second hand or aftermarket wheels - no need to buy manufacturers original kit.
 
I carry snows socks in the boot incase I get stuck, but if I know the weathers going to be bad use the wife's Q5.
 
Have you tried putting snow socks on 18s or 19s with M Sport suspension in the freezing cold :) and they have to come off as soon as you hit tarmac.

Tim.
 
Nope not yet Tim, hope I never have to. But they've gotta be better than nothing if I get stuck.
 
TitanTim said:
Have you tried putting snow socks on 18s or 19s with M Sport suspension in the freezing cold :) and they have to come off as soon as you hit tarmac.

Tim.
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I've used them on a 330d M Sport ... I practiced in the warm - and that was a good idea ! Total pain to put on ... until someone on a forum I read talked about using a lump of old skirting board. It is wide enough and thin enough to wedge the top part over the tyre between the tyre and the wheel arch (something that skins your hands and leaves you in immense pain if you don't use something!) Once you get the knack of using the piece of wood to assist you can get them on in a minute or so - even in the cold.

I found when you get to half snow covered roads the tarmc will wear the snow socks quite quickly. They are for emergency use but so long as the snow stays you can keep them on.

Oh, keep a bin liner in the boot for them too -- otherwise when you have taken them off caked in snow you will end up with a rather wet boot !!
 
They will fit ok TT. Lots of wheels out there will fit :thumbsup: as long as you don't have the new flat tyre monitoring system :headbang:
 
KERMIT1970 said:
They will fit ok TT. Lots of wheels out there will fit :thumbsup: as long as you don't have the new flat tyre monitoring system :headbang:
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It's a great way of BMW ensuring people won't bother fitting winter wheels now with the extra cost for the TPMS sensors :cry:

Even fitting second hand wheels with new sensors and tyres is going to be costly.

Tim.
 
Twin Turbo said:
Is the TPMS really different from the E92?

As they did work okay on my old car - no disco lights
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I have been told this is just fitted to newer models. I had changed the wheels & tyres on my e92 335d with no problems. Sensors were fitted into those hubs & not the tyres.
 
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