SNOW! Mummy!!!!

MikeHiow said:
Idiots will get stuck whether they have winter tyres or not.

I can see the benefits of winter tyres and for a couple of years now have been meaning to buy some part worns but despite taking the royal biscuit the last few years in the snow, almost inviting myself to get stuck, I've not managed it yet, be it in the Corrado, VXR, BMW, Mondeo or Focus (all cars with big wide summer tyres). That said, the Yaris on 165/60/13s or something was absolutely incredible in the snow on ditch finders.

Long story short - winter tyres aren't some magic formula that let you drive in the snow like it's a warm summers day, so those getting stuck on "normal" tyres will still end up stuck on winter tyres.
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totally disagree, good snow tyres will not let you get stuck so easly as an all weather tyre..

their is a steep hill round the corner from mine, when i had a defender i couldnt get up it, locking the diffs, i also had a AWD mazda 323gtr which couldnt get up it either, but in my golf fitted with snow tyres it flew up.
 
Mickie said:
i left the back tyres alone and bought good snow tyres for the front, i have a fwd car.. i havent got stuck and i havent lost controle of the car and i wont lose controle because i dont drive fast enough in bad conditions to lose controle..

people were saying i'd probably die, wrong
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CONTROL

It's been spelled out for you already in this same thread, learn from it.
 
He may not word it fantastically, but I can definitely understand where Mickie is coming from. He's bought a pair of winter tyres for the front pretty much for straight line traction alone - ie to help on inclines and snow covered junctions, rather than to increase his overall driving speeds in such conditons - at least, that's how I read it.
 
Lopéz said:
He may not word it fantastically, but I can definitely understand where Mickie is coming from. He's bought a pair of winter tyres for the front pretty much for straight line traction alone - ie to help on inclines and snow covered junctions, rather than to increase his overall driving speeds in such conditons - at least, that's how I read it.
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cheers, thats what im trying to point out
 
Mickie said:
totally disagree, good snow tyres will not let you get stuck so easly as an all weather tyre..

their is a steep hill round the corner from mine, when i had a defender i couldnt get up it, locking the diffs, i also had a AWD mazda 323gtr which couldnt get up it either, but in my golf fitted with snow tyres it flew up.
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Google maps?
 
For what it's worth, I can understand the thought process behind this and I'd do it myself.

If I had snow tyres on at the moment I'd still be driving about gingerly, feathering the throttle in 4th, leaving big gaps to the next car and so on - I just wouldn't be getting stuck on hills and car parks.

People will say that the imbalance between the 2 types of tyre will cause the rear to break away under "normal" driving but that doesn't happen noticeably until you are really pushing the edge of what the rear tyre is comfortable with - and you should be well below this margin in real snow anyway.

Many years ago I borrowed a pair of 15" Compomotives shod with competition use snow tyres. I slung them on the front of the 205 and left the rears as they were (Avon ZV1)

I just used the snow tyres as you would a diff lock/snow chain/Autosock when I encountered a slippery incline, rather than use them to increase my overall driving speed. For what it's worth, it worked it a treat.
 
[TW]Fox;21201284 said:
Why would you buy snow tyres in the UK? Do you mean winter tyres (Which are not 'snow tyres'?)?
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Sorry I'm being awkward, see my earlier post, there's no such UK average thing as snow tyres, we don't even get sold full ice studded tyres, see continentals website you have to change to Swedish or Russian to get the studded tyre choice, what we get is winter sub circa 7 degrees tyres not snow tyres, people call them snow tyres, they are just softer compound and different pattern.
 
Lopéz said:
For what it's worth, I can understand the thought process behind this and I'd do it myself.

If I had snow tyres on at the moment I'd still be driving about gingerly, feathering the throttle in 4th, leaving big gaps to the next car and so on - I just wouldn't be getting stuck on hills and car parks.

People will say that the imbalance between the 2 types of tyre will cause the rear to break away under "normal" driving but that doesn't happen noticeably until you are really pushing the edge of what the rear tyre is comfortable with - and you should be well below this margin in real snow anyway.

Many years ago I borrowed a pair of 15" Compomotives shod with competition use snow tyres. I slung them on the front of the 205 and left the rears as they were (Avon ZV1)

I just used the snow tyres as you would a diff lock/snow chain/Autosock when I encountered a slippery incline, rather than use them to increase my overall driving speed. For what it's worth, it worked it a treat.
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at last, someone who understands me, ive had no problems with the rear tyres locking up but the only time they would is if i hit ice i'd have thought but so would the fronts, nothing much you can do when on ice..

obviously when on ice i drive very very slowly like everyone else..

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/mypla...d=L6AaHGz01rkV2IJw-ZVyKw&cbp=12,75.04,,0,8.25

i can also get pics up of my old defender and 323gtr up too if you think im talking bull mike
 
I'm not suggesting you're talking bull - I completely believe you that you failed to navigate it in your Defender or your GTR. Last year I watched a friend get stuck on a hill in a Disco on M&S tyres.

I also watched someone else come along in a MK4 Golf GTI on P-Zeros and navigate the same hill just fine. :)
 
my summer tyres stopped me from driving 100miles and getting home today. Oh hang on a minute, no they didnt, i drove home completely fine. Pfft, snow? what snow?

What did hurt me was my sports clutch, being rather "on off" its hard to slip it to get going.... doh
 
the snow tires would really come in useful when you get some proper temps ;) bring the -5 or so on RIGHT NOW and ill see you lot "pffting" over this :)
 
it was -4c the other day, i had no issues what so ever. Last year on one of my random drives my car displayed -10c, again, no issues at all.
 
Thats the biggest problem round here.

It snow'd on saturday night. About mid day yesterday it was up to about 5 degrees. The snow was melting everywhere , and there are huge puddles of melting snow everywhere, that have now turned to black ice as the temperature has dropped back below zero overnight.
 
Overlag said:
it was -4c the other day, i had no issues what so ever. Last year on one of my random drives my car displayed -10c, again, no issues at all.
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it was +1/3 all day yesterday and my gf lives in romford :o and it snowed after 5 through the night :confused:
 
grudas said:
it was +1/3 all day yesterday and my gf lives in romford :o and it snowed after 5 through the night :confused:
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i didnt say yesterday, i said the other day. Plus i was in Brighton hence no snow. 2-3miles in land it turned very snowy. still didnt crash...;)
 
Overlag said:
i didnt say yesterday, i said the other day. Plus i was in Brighton hence no snow. 2-3miles in land it turned very snowy. still didnt crash...;)
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cool ;) i just dislike people that get too confident too quick without realizing how hard it can bite them.. :o
 
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