Throwing Stars and snowchains?

[moroza]

Anyone know if snowchains will fit an E34 equipped with M5 wheels, without fender/suspension clearance issues?

[AHenry014]

snow wheel/tires are cheap and easy to come by on craigslist.....

[moroza]

Yeah, but I don't want to run winter tires all year round. I'm not even certain that I'll be driving in any snow this winter (not sure where I'll be). My intention is to get all-seasons and carry chains for emergencies.

[BeLiQ]

Honestly, I thought chains are not used at all here.

[RomanTaylor]

Yeah, but I don't want to run winter tires all year round. I'm not even certain that I'll be driving in any snow this winter (not sure where I'll be). My intention is to get all-seasons and carry chains for emergencies.

Carry two winter spares with a jack and wrench? :) Takes few minutes, and extra weight in the truck helps during winter. As far as chains, as long as you drive really slow, usually they will be okay. Speed up and they'll start hitting everything even with lots of wheel clearance. From my experience snow wheels > chains.

[TGreene]

I was thinking of doing the same thing. I think it would be hilarious.

[Zukuri73]

Yeah, but I don't want to run winter tires all year round. I'm not even certain that I'll be driving in any snow this winter (not sure where I'll be). My intention is to get all-seasons and carry chains for emergencies.

If you encounter an emergency in your BMW. Snow chains will be as much use to you as a rubber crutch or a hairy arm in a dark alley. Your AT's should do the job needed until you need a tow truck or a friend with a 4 wheel rig.

My recommendation:

On the first snow, take your car to a large empty parking lot. Drive it around and make exaggerated over-steering turns. Pull the E-brake and put your car into a spin. Continually try to correct the car. You will be more prepared for this when you hit ice and your car starts to get squirrely. If you ever change your tires, do this again, as the control of the car will change. If more people are prepared like this, there would be less winter time accidents. Making you confident in your car on the ice is vital not only to your safety, but to other drivers on the road.

Protip: Not a good idea to do this in the police station, or DMV parking lot. I have idiot friends :(

[darknezz7]

If you encounter an emergency in your BMW. Snow chains will be as much use to you as a rubber crutch or a hairy arm in a dark alley. Your AT's should do the job needed until you need a tow truck or a friend with a 4 wheel rig.

My recommendation:

On the first snow, take your car to a large empty parking lot. Drive it around and make exaggerated over-steering turns. Pull the E-brake and put your car into a spin. Continually try to correct the car. You will be more prepared for this when you hit ice and your car starts to get squirrely. If you ever change your tires, do this again, as the control of the car will change. If more people are prepared like this, there would be less winter time accidents. Making you confident in your car on the ice is vital not only to your safety, but to other drivers on the road.

Protip: Not a good idea to do this in the police station, or DMV parking lot. I have idiot friends :(

thats great lol

i agree with this through, the dmvs should offer free winter driving classes where the just let everyone slide around in a big empty parking and learn to drive in the snow. I know ive had my practice in since I was younger

[Zukuri73]

thats great lol

i agree with this through, the dmvs should offer free winter driving classes where the just let everyone slide around in a big empty parking and learn to drive in the snow. I know ive had my practice in since I was younger

There is a place in Washington outside of Seattle that offers ice, snow, and rain driving practice for motorcycles. I wonder if they have anything for cars.

[M Quick]

Use the e-brake when driving in slippery condition, that's my best tip when using all season tyres or even summer tyres at winter. But you must use the e-brake with feel to it, that is, you only take it up a noth or two(depending on how good your e-brake is ofcourse) so that the wheels will be allowed to take you forward. You don't wanna get wheelspin as that will dig you into getting stuck even more if you need to take of at a place where you cannot go until you use the e-brake "trick".

Don't know if it makes sense to you guys, but it made all the sense in the world to me when i first got the tip and got stuck with summertyres in deep snow, as it will allow either the other wheel to grip instead of letting the wheel with least grip just dig in even more or best case you'll get both wheels to get a grip when using it.

Don't know how your winters usually are, but here in Sweden, it's pretty darn slippery from time to time.


Other than that i'd recommend "snowsocks", it's like snowchains but they are not taking up any space in the trunk or on the wheel really, andn they don't carry any weight.
http://www.biltema.se/ProductImages/37/medium/37-131_m.jpg

And they most certainly don't get you into any trouble like smashing your fenders. Recommended max speed is around 30mph.