Winter tyres

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Evening all,

With the cold weather now with us I'm thinking of replacing the front tyres of my wifes car with winter tyres as they currently have Goodyear summer tyres. They are only 185/55/15's but my wife will be doing a lot of local driving and mostly on ungritted roads. Seen a part worn set of Fulda's and Hankooks on ebay for £60 a pair.

So people of ocuk would now be the right time to stick winter tyres on her car?

Thanks
 
I put a full set of Conti Winters on mine last week and I'm very happy with the performance. I'm not sure I'd go for part worns, mind.
 
I have winter tyres on one of mine and they seem excellent to me, they wear the same as normal tyres and are noticably better in mud and bad surfaces like farm tracks. I have not had to do an emergency stop though so watch out if you see me coming :D
 
Isn't the whole point of winters that they have deep treads with lots of sipes. Part worns aren't going to have this, so pointless?
 
fadetoblack said:
I think I've read somewhere that they recommend replacing winter tyres at 4mm anyway?
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Correct - winter tyres have a different working tread depth to regular tyres and they are replaced at 4mm.

Therefore buying other peoples junky castoffs at 4-5mm seems like a bit of a daft idea.
 
Replacing the front tyres only is stupid too, there's a good YouTube video showing why - you brake hard and the front and back swap ends due to the complete imbalance in grip.
 
When I had a few mm of tread on my rear winters the car once spun 180 degrees after the road went from tarmac to snow.
So yeah, changing them with 4-5mm is advised. As said above, there are wear markers for that :)
 
My Yaris needed new tyres so i just got 4 Bridgestone A001's fitted today, they're all season tyres but look just like winter tyres from the tread pattern.

The theory goes they'll be able to cope if there's a bit of snow around and wont go all soggy in the summer. Once the release agent wore off through the day they've felt really good on the car, did an emergency stop earlier and they stopped better than the budget summer tat that was on the car before!
 
sovietspybob said:
My Yaris needed new tyres so i just got 4 Bridgestone A001's fitted today, they're all season tyres but look just like winter tyres from the tread pattern.

The theory goes they'll be able to cope if there's a bit of snow around and wont go all soggy in the summer. Once the release agent wore off through the day they've felt really good on the car, did an emergency stop earlier and they stopped better than the budget summer tat that was on the car before!
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Isn't it more to do with the texture(?) of the rubber at the current temperature?
 
For all the winter tyre haters

Dad collected this on Saturday.

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Smoke to the dealer about winter tyres as they'll store the summers during winter and vice versa. Said they've got Yokohamas in stock as Lexus ordered loads for the season and it's their approved model (Yokohama W.drive I think the model was) and that their supplier has Continentals listed on the computer but no stock and not eta (Continental ContiCrossContact Winter I think the model was).
Dad decided to have them put a set of Yokohamas by, but leave fitting them until the end of November as it was about 8C on Saturday which is a bit too warm.





I open the curtains on Sunday morning...
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He wasn't amused :D :p
Probably gonna go get them fitted sooner I bet!
 
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