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Winter Tyres

Do you use winter tyres

  • Total voters
    183
  • Poll closed .
If You Still have PE2s or have PS3s these are like slicks in the snow. Got stuck so many times last year,,,,, once was on full lock going up a straight hill as the front end slid off the road camber. But that was shockin conditions when the M8 shut for 3 days.... so I'm just getting 2 new PS3s fitted tomorrow.
 
Roy Munson said:
The poll results are quite telling, actually. Those who I consider to be intelligent seem to have voted 'yes', and those who I think are a bit dim, have voted otherwise.
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I know, i'm ever so dim. I must remind myself that tyres are a symbol of intelligence!
 
<<<<< Is Dim but kept £600 ish in the bank. If The roads are so bad that you cant pass them with care and traffic just backs up then stops, the only thing that will get you home is a fookin monster truck.
 
i was chatting to a client at a po-po about these yesterday and he claimed that some insurance companies invalidate your cover if you have winter tyres that are not approved, this cant be right surely??
 
The popo/ambulance/fire must run winter tyres shirley?
 
^ why would i be trolling, i have just stated fact from a news article, i didnt write the story did i? I was the one asking the question.

Back in your box.
 
They are fairly wafty but they grip which is the main thing. Steering feels a little vague and the arse end sits down a bit mid corner but it's worth the compromise.

Camskill had some 195/50/15 W Drive Yokohamas in at £43 each which was 5 quid over cost at the time! (Nov). On the net now they are ~£70 :/ Big price increase for tyres in one month.

And I can only order Cooper-Avon winter tyres for next year now!
 
TBF Alan is not likely to notice an increase in steering vagueness. The last BMW i drove on runflats felt like playing Gran Turismo 5 as it was.
 
gally said:
The popo/ambulance/fire must run winter tyres shirley?
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They do indeed (well East Anglian Ambulance service definately do)v

My old man who used to be very high up in the service, before he left 10 years ago, and was one of the people who had to prove that fitting them was beneficial to saving lives.

HAd to do a whole report on statistics etc of how many people that were "likely" to not survive "if" the ambulance's were not able to get to a callout. Also how much longer it added to a callout during the winter months.

From memory I "think" he said that in the winter time the time to get to callouts on average during the previous ten years was double that (bearing in mind this covered from the early 90's to 2000 when some of our winters were quite bad) so the 10 minute target was increased to 20 minutes. Fitting Winter tyres woukld save them on average 5 minutes...so I believe it was a no-brainer that 5 minutes is enough to save someone's life.

They spent months on doing that report too I seem ot remember and I believe they still do switch to winter tyres...unless they dont due to "cost savings". I was shocked that it wasn't deemed necessary to fit them to be honest.
 
Daniel said:
Yes, why??

(Not the rear one, that was already on there)
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I was looking at getting some on mine, expensive?? (if you dont mind me asking) My boss has a brand new set of Scorpion AT's out on a pajero at the back of work but they wont fit mine...gutted (the car hasnt moved for about 5 years!)
 
Didnt think people actually bought these! I'm under the impression that its a marketing trick for old dears and gullable folks.

Nothing wrong with driving according to the conditions. I know whos dim for waxing money when you clearly dont need to...
 
winter tyres only work better under 7 degees so above that I am the one with better tyres! :rasp: sorry 99% of us are !
 
aldo_87 said:
Didnt think people actually bought these! I'm under the impression that its a marketing trick for old dears and gullable folks.

Nothing wrong with driving according to the conditions. I know whos dim for waxing money when you clearly dont need to...
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Says someone who clearly hasn't used them. I wonder how many people who say they are a waste of money have actually used them? I buy the best I can for summer and the best I can for winter. So far the summer tyres on the coupe are 3 years old and I'll get another season out of them but on the clio and the winters will do this year and next year. So not actually bought tyres for it for years!
 
aldo_87 said:
Didnt think people actually bought these! I'm under the impression that its a marketing trick for old dears and gullable folks.

Nothing wrong with driving according to the conditions. I know whos dim for waxing money when you clearly dont need to...
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Nice bit of trolling, if not a little obvious.
 
Think ill just pop back into here to say that even though I'm not that fussed about winter tyres, I may well be purchasing a pair for the front of my daily driver.

The reason for this is I did a 320 mile trip to collect a car for a mate the other evening. On the way back (160miles) I wanted to get back so safely progressed a bit quicker without stopping part way. When I got off the motorway I carried on driving quicker until I got home, I randomly touched the tyres to see how warm they were... They weren't, they were stone cold.

It was a cold evening but dry with no snow/ice etc.

Now the car drove perfectly fine, no understeer/ feeling of driving on ice/problems with braking however I was a genuinely shocked that after that mileage/quicker driving they were still so cold!

As much as I was still driving safely and not pushing the car to it's limits, if something had popped out on me out I may well have been caught out.

So like a said previous in this thread I believe they work for the right people, now i am firm believer that they are even beneficial for me.

Nick
 
Djw John said:
Says someone who clearly hasn't used them. I wonder how many people who say they are a waste of money have actually used them? I buy the best I can for summer and the best I can for winter. So far the summer tyres on the coupe are 3 years old and I'll get another season out of them but on the clio and the winters will do this year and next year. So not actually bought tyres for it for years!
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Im being a cnut but I drive 120 miles per trip on a shocking A road a few times a week and it gets the weather really bad through the winter. Ive never been in a situation where I've thought "I need more grip in the snow/low temp conditions".
 
Truly amazing drive out just now. Freezing cold, driving sleet and rain, flitting back and forth between snow. Gusty winds glancing off rivers of water running across muddy country lanes. The car felt so secure and stable, it may as well have been a dry summer's day.

Yeah. Marketing.
 
Roy, what profile are your winter tyres out of interest? Seeing as you are one big OEM wheels...
 
lol, £300 a piece?

[Idiot Alert] I fitted mine the other day, only I didn't as they didn't clear the brakes. [/Idiot alert]

Have sold them for what I paid for them and i'm now on the lookout for a larger set.
 
They came with Steelies Jon? I bet you're not the only one to that this year.
 
No mate, I bought some 15" E46 alloys and 4 new tyres for them back in the autumn. Went to put them on last week and they went on fine at the back but didn't fit up front. Turns out all Sport models have to have 16" as a minimum as standard. Luckily they sold pretty quickly. I'm contemplating doing without now and using the Tiguan instead.
 
jon_r said:
No mate, I bought some 15" E46 alloys and 4 new tyres for them back in the autumn. Went to put them on last week and they went on fine at the back but didn't fit up front. Turns out all Sport models have to have 16" as a minimum as standard. Luckily they sold pretty quickly. I'm contemplating doing without now and using the Tiguan instead.
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We found something similar with a spare wheel out an old Clio we had. Tried to put it on a 172 cup to keep it mobile... no go.

I know a lot of people who try it on Golfs ect not realising it won't clear the calipers in somecases.
 
You learn something new everyday I guess. I'm watching ebay like a hawk at the mo, but i'm not too fussed as i've not many journey's south to make over the next few months.

£186 each is a great price, they've certainly gone up in that size.
 
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