Show your Winter Wear - PICS
 

I just put on the winter Blizzacks. Now I know how much I appreciate the 40th Rays rims. Can't wait until spring to return the Z to "the look".

Post your before and after PICs. Let's see what you're wearing this winter.

Just finished putting on mine also. Sweatin' like a pig.

^^crazyness!:icon14:

Let's see um: Before and After Pictures - Winter Wear
 

We'll, here are the before and after pictures of winter wear for the Z. Let's see what you've got.

oh hell no! I used my '07 Z in the winter for 3 years. It was great with the snow treads but I am not subjecting the 40th to that torture. I just picked up a dodge 4x4. new england will kill a car in the winter.
drive safe my friends.

Here's RoZY... She keeps off the road in really bad weather, but up here, we need the winter tires when the pavement gets too cold for the summer tires. She only goes out on cold, clear days with mostly clear roads. No snow days!

A pic from last spring with the winter shoes still on. I have spacers now so the offset is not so bad!

http://www.the370z.com/members/wheee...-nice-shot.jpg

And a shot from the summer of course!

http://www.the370z.com/members/wheee...1-gorgeous.jpg

I've heard the summer tires can get slick in the cold weather. I just got the car so I haven't driven in the snow yet, but will very soon. Doesn't anyone else drive their car in the winter? Show your shoes.

Dunlop Graspic DS-3's are my winter tires on 18" Enkei EK2 Eurosports.

The summer tires turn to hockey pucks at anything near freezing and are dangerous. I switch to the winter gear as soon as we have our first cold spell (late august) and remove them at the first warm spell (early august).

i'm picking up my winters this week (dunlop wintersport m3's), and i'll probably install the wheels sunday night. i just went with stock 18's, seemed like a no brainer. how come you went with these instead?

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how do you like the graspics. i wasn't sure what the difference between those and the wintersport M3's were. do you know? i ended up with the m3's though.

The M3's are more for places that just get cold weather and very small amounts of snow/ice. Here in Canada we get a lot of ice on the roads (and snow, but RoZy won't pretend she's a snow plow...) so we can't use the M3's reliably. Too little siping to make the tires grip the road. The Graspics are awesome tires and I am very impressed with them....

what size did you get? how much did they cost you mounted and balanced?

225 55r18 I think? I will check. They were ordered by the dealer as part of the car deal. I paid $2400 taxes-in Cdn for the wheels tires and balancing install with Nitro Fill. Not bad.

with TPMS installed as well....

oh, what kind of wheels did you get?

255/55/18 doesn't sound right. thats a very big tire. i imagine you went with 225/50/18 (which is the front OEM 18" tire size). thats also the widest tire they seem to sell for the graspic ds-3

I think the reason i went with the M3's was more the sizing. i didn't want to run a 225 tire on the rear OEM 18's, so i just went with 245/45/18's all around. I'm paying 950 mounted and balanced onto the base 18's which i got through a trade for my rays (plus $700) from the buyer. so basically, i traded my rays, and a brand new set of winter tires winds up costing me 250 :)

Enkei EK2 Eurosports

nice looking wheel. what are the fitments?

lol, I really don't know! I will have to check as I am at work now. They were ordered by the dealer as the "only 18" wheels" that fit the sport brakes at that time....
There is no difference in the offsets in the wheels as they can be rotated front to back as well. The wheel spacers make them more aesthetically pleasing at least...

Wait, you have spacers on your car!? :confused::bowrofl:

I was going to buy Rays 19's and tires, but decided not to invest that much for 4 months a year, plus the fact they might look like s#*! after a couple of years. I went with Sport Edition Wheels (they didn't have the rims I wanted until February) and I have Blizzack LM-25 - 225/50/18's. They fit fine and look decent, at least for the winter months.

yup. The picture is of the way it looked BEFORE spacers!!

You only get to drive summer tires for three weeks in August? I think I wouldn't change tires...

i think he was just kidding around and exaggerating how long the winter season is where he lives. after all, we all know they get at least 2 solid months without snow ;)

We didn't have snow this summer, but it has happened before...

I change my tires by May and then have them switched back to winters by October. Basically 6 months on each set. Oh well, I guess they will last longer that way!

^^6 months is typical for each set of tires anywhere in Canada. On my most recent DD Altima I would put the winters on around Nov 1st (Z's goes into storage then!) then switch back around May 1st also when I bring the summer cars out again, so then I know April rains have wash away all of the salt that they dumped on our roads! It's so nasty! I would never expose my Z to the salt we have around here makes cars look like SH!T:shakes head:!!!!!!!

I find even driving the Z's in late October it can get a little slick because it will drop below the magic 10*C when the tires start to lose grip! so on those cool nights around freezing(0*) to 3*C you can have some fun in some open parking lots!DONUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol only in my 300zx so far though.......:driving:

Crappy pic, but here's mine.

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/g...a/2fb8c91a.jpg

Just got mine put on today too

18x8.5 - 235/50 front
18x9.5 - 255/45 rear

Wheels are XXR 522 and tires are Blizzak LM-60

http://i56.tinypic.com/2vskow0.jpg
http://i54.tinypic.com/206oe9c.jpg
http://i53.tinypic.com/md0cbq.jpg

Those actually look badass!:tup:

Thankfully I'm in FL. No winter setup here:driving::happydance:

:iagree: sajonf those do look pretty sick! especially as your winters!


TreeSemdyZee those make the car look more like what the Z would look like if infiniti had made it! (under there name)

i think thats my favorite winter setup so far :tup:

Before and after. Wheel spacers added since the pics.

Thanks all, I think they turned out pretty good especially for a $500 set of wheels.