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have the Pirelli Scorpion Ice & Snow RFT  on my X5 also and they work great.






[quote="X5Sport"]
I have 285 tyres on my X6 for the winter.....fitted to style 258 alloys.  I use Pirelli Scorpion Ice & Snow RFT tires.  These are one of the OEM standard winter wheel/tyre sets for the X6.  Not had any (proper) deep snow but used them for the last two winter seasons with no problems, and they actually give a better ride than the summer set.

Summer wheels are 20" with Dunlop Sportmaxx SP RFTs.

Richard
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[quote="sarends"]
I ordered a set of Wintrac Xtremes yesterday in 255/50/19! 

I am very excited to try them out.  They will be replacing:

Continental Contact 4X4 SSR Runflats

The Continental run flats are the only tire I have tried on my X so I am very very excited to try out the Vredesteins.  Although I absolutely love my 5.0, I have a hunch that the current tires are kinda mediocre.  Surprisingly enough I can't really find any reviews of my current tire to see how others have liked them.  I also just don't like all season tires as I see them as "glass half empty" instead of "glass half full" tires.  I mean, they aren't really excellent at anything.  I am a big believer that in order to wring every bit of excellence out of my auto purchase I need to buyt the best tire.  It has always seemd silly to me to pay (for example) $50,000 for a BMW and then have it handle (perhaps) only 85% as well as it could by saving $500 on tires.  In my example I am losing 15%b of the ultimate handling of my $50,000 vehicle by saving $500.  Makes no sense.

Anyway, I think the Vreds will be  a great experiment! 
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Sarends, do you really push your car that hard that you feel you are missing out on the last 15% of its ability? 

Don