Now that I've done exactly what I knew would eventually happen (falling-off the blog wagon) - Zippy demanded an update. He did this by finally chewing almost all the way through the Bridgestone Ecopias that came with the car at the time of purchase - 12,532 miles... abysmal tire lifetime by most standards. We do drive Zippy on a mountain gravel road about 3 miles per day - and log about 15 miles per day on a winding, paved mtn road... but honestly. The tires were literally bald - dangerous to drive with some careful attention. We were planning to install new tires but were trying to wait-out the inevitable snow so that we could transition straight to snow tires. The final straw was last week when Zippy could barely creep up our gravel road in the rain because the road was slightly slick - and the tires had no traction.
I found this blog post by Chuck Vossler quite helpful. We went with the Blizzaks mostly due to the fact that Zippy get about 20 highway miles per day and we wanted the additional durability of the Bridgestone tire.
Next - I need to fine where to get these show chains. I've talked to our local BMW dealer and searched all over the web - to no avail.
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