The beauties went away all clean and the snows went on today. I just couldn't take the drone from the end of life dunlops. The right front had a heavy inside tread wear pattern and almost to the cords. Will have to have alignment checked very soon! Haven't driven it yet with this rubber. Blizzak LM-60's on 19".

 

The wheels that are currently on your ride also dandy

 

Thanks but they sure do look skinny by comparison!

I now have a TPMS issue. I ordered the snows on rims with TPMS installed. After swapping them yesterday all seemed good until the end of the day. I had done a few short trips (5km) and on the last the "Tire Pressure Monitoring System Fault" message came up. I have driven it twice since and it is still lit. Does it take time for the system to settle in on new installation?

 

I think you have your answer. You might copy and paste it from there to here. This is a US based site and the other is UK based.

 

What, exactly, is this "snow" of which you speak???

 

Solidified water falling from the sky, fortunately in relatively small pieces. The problems begin when you try to drive on this stuff. Snow tires make this easier. You can also drift even the modestly powered base 4.2 if enough "snow" accumulates on the road. Traction control off, naturally.

 

Thread Hijack! Do any of you snow savvy guys have a view on what I should do? I am thinking about driving from TX to Colorado for a ski trip in February and want to take the XFR of course. I don't really want to spend lots of $$$ on winter tyres for a journey that will be 95% unaffected by snow and maybe totally unaffected. Once there I don't plan to/need to drive very much. I am British so have some snow driving experience! Any thoughts?