Winter Tyre Pressures

[ldubl]

Put 195/45/16 Pirelli Snow Control winter tyres on today.

No scrabbling for traction, found they work better with esp off.

Not sure what pressures should be putting in them, so looking for facts or opinions on this!

 

[RichB]

supposedly weight of the car determines the tyre pressure so no change should be required but I always found a few PSI up is best. I always used winters with steels so have big sidewalls to deflect more though.

 

[TheEvilGiraffe]

If they're the same size as you were running the day before on 'summers' .. use the same pressures as those, i.e.: standard 33f/30r (?!).
If they're brand new, it might take a few miles (read: hundreds) to scrub in a little and they'll feel a lot nicer.
Just remember not to fall over in the car park when you get out of the thing :yum:

 

[ldubl]

Haha! Yeah, good shout taking it easy on foot :up:

Wanted the WR A3s but a set of 7mm Pierllis popped up on ebay for half the price of new, so on they went :smile:

Was running pressures a few psi below the recc on my summers (205/45/16) after reading lots of threads on tyre pressures on here. Quite a few recc only a 2psi difference, eg, 30/28 but there seem to be a lot of variables.

205/45/16 & 195/45/16 both recc to run at 33/30 by Renault?

 

[Djw John]

Just the normal pressures is what I've always been advised and it's worked well for me.

 

[ldubl]

Thanks for the replies, will try 33/30 :up: