Oppo, I heard you like snow tires on steelies

by "Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
Published 02/17/2017 at 10:10

Tags: Interesting cars at work
STARS: 5

So here’s a hard boiled egg yolk Mini Countryman (no, it’s not an S, or AWD) with a bike/ski rack on steelies and General Altimax Arctics.

Replies (4)

"CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
02/17/2017 at 10:13, STARS: 0

Yes, this makes this hard boiled egg yolk look 100x better.

"Jcarr" (jcarr)
02/17/2017 at 10:32, STARS: 0

I’ll go even further and state that when it comes to snow tires, I prefer them on steelies as opposed to stock wheels or aftermarket wheels.

"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
02/17/2017 at 10:46, STARS: 0

Personally I’ve never been on the steelies bandwagon. I do snows on stock wheels and nicer/wider/bigger wheels for summer.

The only time I’ve participated in the buying of steelies is when I first started dating my now-wife, she had a base model ’08 Sentra with steelies and plastic covers.

I encouraged her to get snow tires, I forget the exact reasoning for them, but she liked the idea. We kept the regular all-seasons on those and put snow tires on another set of steelies, and swapped the plastic wheel covers between the wheels so it still wasn’t bare steelies.

"Bourbon&JellyBeans" (bourbonandjellybeans)
02/17/2017 at 11:17, STARS: 0

Steelies will never look good on a luxury car. Or a late model sports car, I reckon. If I needed snow tires, they’d be going on my Mustang’s stock wheels.