Modern all weather tyres can more than cope with our winters. We don't live with 1990s tyre technology anymore.
what brand considered for a good all weather tyre?
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Decent summer tyres can cope with our winters, with the exception of the 1 bad day of snow a year we actually get.
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I have never swapped tyres, we don't get the weather to warrant it really.
They're okay. Winter tyres are better in winter; Summer tyres are better in summer.
Of course yes but for 75% of the UK areas winters full winters aren't really necessary and modern all seasons give near summer tyre performance (probably 80-85%) and 80% the performance of a winter as well. Not really applicable for an all out performance car but for your regular family car why not?
I'll just use the same argument people use when recommending performance summer tyres over ditch finders. They'll be fine until you really need them. In this case they're fine until you hit that patch of ice and don't stop, whereas the all seasons or winters may well stop you before you hit the ditch/lampost...
He's looking for tyres for a crossover, not a high performance saloon. A decent set of all seasons will fit the bill if he doesn't want two sets of dedicated tyres. Besides, they'll make his crossover look a bit more SUV like.
I'll just use the same argument people use when recommending performance summer tyres over ditch finders. They'll be fine until you really need them. In this case they're fine until you hit that patch of ice and don't stop, whereas the all seasons or winters may well stop you before you hit the ditch/lampost...
He's looking for tyres for a crossover, not a high performance saloon. A decent set of all seasons will fit the bill if he doesn't want two sets of dedicated tyres. Besides, they'll make his crossover look a bit more SUV like.
Then your argument for 2 days of the year is a great one. However having driven MPS4S through the ice and snow in the GTR with no issues, rain, sleet you name it, a full winter, while big 4x4's were struggling along I can say they are more than capable enough and throwing your own argument back at you, why compromise 99% of the year? The MPS4 will also last longer.
Hell, I even drove CUP2 typres to the ocuk meet 1 through ice and snow, and those are a track tyre.
Uk weather is just not that bad to warrant looking at "bad weather tyres", as much as people might complain otherwise. Just go for something that will let you pile on the miles without worrying and give you the best performance for the 99%.
You mean countries that really need winter tyres because of the climate rather than the UK which is a fairly moderate climate?
Actually, if you look at a map, it has little to do with climate.
A nissan GTR surprisingly doesn't have the same requirements as a peugeot 2008 tho
Tyre rubber touching the road is a constant regardless of the car, we don't go rolling around on cast metal or rolled up newspaper. The MPS4S is more summer engineered than the MPS4, so if I can pootle around in a UHP tyre, a HP summer tyre on average cars will be even better.
You get ice on the roads for more than two days a year. Ice =/= snow, it's below freezing on and off for at least 3-4 months of they year in most places in the UK.
A set of MPS is not going to make a measurable difference for most people driving a normal car in most weather conditions, but the extra grip of a proper set of all seasons/winters could save your life if you hit a patch of ice, especially that patch of black ice you didn't see.
Most people driving on ditch finders drive around with no issue most of the time as well, it's the edge cases that are the issue.
Doing 70 down a back lane and drifting round the blind corner in your GTR or a BMW saloon is where MPS come into their own. But driving home from work in the dark on a wet and cold on a November night when it's just gone below freezing and all you want to do is get home, that's where a set of all seasons may save someones life in that edge case.