Recommendations for Winter tires that I did not mention in 195/65/15:

Bridgestone Blizzak WS-50. They offer better braking/handling traction in snow then having a 4matic/4wd with all-season tires on them. Motor Trend or Car and Driver did a test using E320s (RWD and 4matic) and Audi A6 (FWD and Quattro) and basically they came to the conclusion that 4wd will help under acceleration because all the power is divided between 4 wheels, not 2. Second, Winter Tires make an incredible difference and even though All-season tire have bridged the gap, they are still a compromise. Winter tires have also advanced, and so they still offer better handling. Third, the 4wd vehicles with winter tires performed the best, but the 2wd with winter tires were very close in terms of hanlding the snow. It proves that Winter tires are better then 4wd!!

If you want to have a more Perfomance-oriented winter tire (read compromise) then Dunlop Winter Sport M2 are T-rated and handle a little better then a Q-rated (read musshy, 99mph top speed) tire would.

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Chirag (Charlie) Patel

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- 93 190E 2.6 (4-sale) w/ an amp, equalizer, and CD-changer, integrated w. stock stereo for integrated cellular phone speaker system
- had a 93 190E m103 3.2, 5-speed trans,
- had a 88 300E 2.6
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