tyres/lights & WINTER

[colin cohen <102621.2256@compuserve.com>]

Winter will be here and its tyre time. Living in the midwest, I want to get the
best from my quattro (100/92) without going studded. I have heard great things
about the Bridgestone Blizzak. Does anybody have any experience with these? Any
opinions on noise and tyre wear would also be helpful. I have heard that they
wear fast and are therefor only practical if the road is generally covered or
wet/slushy.

The euros swear by the Pirelli 190s/210s but I havent heard how they work on
the quattros just benzes. Any thoughts on these or any other tyre which would
be used on snow/ice only 30% of the time.

Lastly and there is another message on the board asking for help on this - I
want to upgrade my lights to Eurospec, assuming the gossip that the S4 lights
will not fit, is true. Has anybody done such a conversion, what is the
installation involve, where can I get the units?  I have tried the 100W lamps
but with no appreciable improvement, but no harness change was made. Has anyone
else tried the 100W on this model, with or without the harness change? To what
effect?

Lets hear from y'all.  Many thanks.