This morning was the first proper snow test of the CC2s on my 640d and I'm glad to say that they got me home. The last time it snowed I couldn't get up the hill less than a mile away from home and that was with the UHP summers. However I will admit that it wasn't all complete grip, there where a few moments where grip was lost, particularly when coming off the main road on to an lesser treated slip road. A few traction control lights coming on while going up the hill as well but nowhere near what it was like with the summers tyres.
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I got trapped in this chaos trying to get away from Gloucester, I was travelling back from my Father's north of Hereford and wanted to get to Andover, but the timing was just awful as the snow hit the Gloucester area so fast.
My normal route takes me past an area called Birdlip which has a high elevation so can get hit with snow very badly and unfortunately they ended up closing the road (A417), ended up just queueing trying to turn around and head for the M5, that took me a couple of hours only to get stuck on the M5 itself for another 2 hours due to multiple accidents that happened earlier! Some people just cannot drive in snow. What should have be a journey taking me 2.5 hours ended up be just over 6 hours!
I saw some 4x4s struggling when they really shouldn't be, most people just putting their foot down spinning their wheels instead of taking it easy. Was my first time with my Audi + Quattro and was pleasantly surprised how the rear wheels kicked into action the moment any slippage was detected on the front wheels (haldex system).
Kinda want to see those videos you mention though
But part worns are cheap.
I was coming the other way, from Swindon way. Took around 2h to get through. Abandoned cars all over the place.I got trapped in this chaos trying to get away from Gloucester, I was travelling back from my Father's north of Hereford and wanted to get to Andover, but the timing was just awful as the snow hit the Gloucester area so fast.
My normal route takes me past an area called Birdlip which has a high elevation so can get hit with snow very badly and unfortunately they ended up closing the road (A417), ended up just queueing trying to turn around and head for the M5, that took me a couple of hours only to get stuck on the M5 itself for another 2 hours due to multiple accidents that happened earlier! Some people just cannot drive in snow. What should have be a journey taking me 2.5 hours ended up be just over 6 hours!
I saw some 4x4s struggling when they really shouldn't be, most people just putting their foot down spinning their wheels instead of taking it easy. Was my first time with my Audi + Quattro and was pleasantly surprised how the rear wheels kicked into action the moment any slippage was detected on the front wheels (haldex system).
Kinda want to see those videos you mention though
Underboss
thoughts?
If the weather like these extremes in summer and winter are going to be the norm then we're going to have to adapt.
Going by that video of people struggling in Gloucester I imagine there being a run on all season or winter tyres next year. It just takes one bad experience for you want cover your backside.
Going by that video of people struggling in Gloucester I imagine there being a run on all season or winter tyres next year. It just takes one bad experience for you want cover your backside.
Pretty much my experience this morning. You're not going to be able to go winter rallying in them but as long as you're careful they'll get you home.
Underboss
No, but if I was less lazy (or rather had a more convenient setup for being able to service my vehicles at home) I'd just have 2 different sets of wheels for all my vehicles and change them more often as appropriate. Though it is only the budget tyres on the Qashqai I've had any issues with in colder weather so far. In what we've had so far (-6C at worst, minimal ice and only about 0.5cm of snow at the worst) the Bridgestone t005s even cope fine let alone the all seasons.
This is in Charlton Kings in Cheltenham. We drove around there yesterday evening and it's still really icy.
Soldato
Star is just a design tyre to allow them to meet the legal tyre converge with a specified tyre rather than ETRTO standards that can be a max in service like a balloon tyre and mean you have oversize wheel arch body cuts and wheel to body offsets that make the car look like its driving on caster wheels. So using the OEM specified tyres allows a much tighter control as the legal compliance of tyre coverage is met by the handbook specifying a certain tyre.
TLDR :its a geometry thing to make the cars look better out the factory.
Of course that means the control also effects OD and 'maybe' relates to a degree of drivetrain tolerance too.
I thought the Turanza T005 was a summer tyre? Maybe it’s Bridgestones funny number/naming system.
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