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Hello!
I have a quick and simple question that I'm probably just too big a car moron to have found on my own, so I appreciate your patience. I'm the proud new owner of a beautiful blue '98 Z3 1.9. I live in Wisconsin, so I need a set of tires to keep the ass end of the car behind the drivers seat. The trunk is home to 3 bags of sand, but the wide summer tires are spinhappy enough to be dangerous.

The car is my wife's daily driver, but she's away on business the majority of the time. Because of this (and because we're broke), I'd like to avoid dropping a grand at tirerack.com if I could. Is there a set of skinny all-season radials I can put on steel rims? Do I have a chance in hell of finding steel rims at a boneyard? Am I stuck dishing out for blizzaks on alloys? Does anyone have any exprience with this? I really have no experience with tires at all, so specifics, brands, and sizes would be indispensible.

Thanks a lot!
Eric