Snow Tires, Wheels
12-25-2016, 06:28 PM
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Snow Tires, Wheels
Folks:
Just bought a 2006 E55 AMG Wagon and live in Colorado so need to explore snow tires for it. Knowing that narrow snow tires are best, I need to figure out what options I have for narrower wheels. What experience do others have? New or used steel or alloy wheels would be fine, preferably at reasonable cost.
My favorite snow tires are studded Nokian Hakkepelliittas (probably didn't get enough K's, l's, i's, or t's in there). Have used them for years on my W124 wagon.
Just bought a 2006 E55 AMG Wagon and live in Colorado so need to explore snow tires for it. Knowing that narrow snow tires are best, I need to figure out what options I have for narrower wheels. What experience do others have? New or used steel or alloy wheels would be fine, preferably at reasonable cost.
My favorite snow tires are studded Nokian Hakkepelliittas (probably didn't get enough K's, l's, i's, or t's in there). Have used them for years on my W124 wagon.
12-26-2016, 02:49 AM
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Snow tires
I just purchased my E55 a few months back and also live in Colorado. I am on stock wheels with pirelli winter 240 snowsports running the same as stock size. I have driven it through 2 snow storms now and it has done amazing. I thought having a wide tire would be bad but so far the car had done very well! Hope this helps a little.
12-26-2016, 08:58 AM
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Hakkapalitta R2 on my car, stock size, and only rear wheel drive. I was driving up Teton Pass on Christmas Eve, tooling along nicely, when I came upon a half mile line of cars moving about 2 mph. Ice and snow road surface and the R2's never missed a beat. The Swedes know snow.
12-27-2016, 09:28 PM
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I mounted 245-40 snow tires on both front and rear stock wheels. No issues. Best part is they've never seen snow haha. Just kind of a backup Incase my daily driver breaks down.
