handles amazingly with snow tires. but we bought it used with the factory 3 season continental sport which look like slicks. hence the needfor snowies. we bought new cheap rims at the same time as the snowies so i could change them out in my driveway.

i think i was rubbing just a bit on the parking brake because the lug was just a hair too long. the noise stopped, so either the lug has now worn down to a sufficient level. Or whatever it was hitting in the parking brake stuff, fell off. either way the noise stopped and the lugs are all tight.

please let me know if there is something i'm missing, but i think i'm all good now.

ps-sorry for the bad grammar/spelling, i'm typing from my PDA phone.