Good for you. Do you only drive around the location in you profile? I don't. Sadly despite being blessed to live in the greatest city in the country I rarely do my driving there.
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Good for you. Do you only drive around the location in you profile? I don't. Sadly despite being blessed to live in the greatest city in the country I rarely do my driving there.
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This... none... at all... you live in Cambridge... unless you live up mount Snowden or somewhere in the Scottish highlands... no-one in the UK needs winter tyres...
Where are you driving thats very wintry? I drive UK wide, never wanted or needed winter tyres, they're a complete waste of time and money
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Good luck... Not kwik fit, but i'm about to submit court claim forms to the mobile fitter who damaged my alloys as they're refusing to fix them, despite admitting to damaging them in writing...
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Are you planning multiple trips to the top of the French/Swiss/Austrian Alps?
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None... get a better list or ask some dodgy sales guy who will sell you anything just to take your money instead of offering you reasonable advice...
Still a waste of time in wales and 90% of places in scotland, stick with good quality summer rubber. There's literally no benefit to wasting £500 of your hard earned, despite what the recent trend towards winter tyres might lead you to believe.
ContiWinterContacts TS 850s. Quite frankly the rest just aren't as good.
Regarding the OMG ARE THEY REALLY NECESSARY?!?!?!1111 debate, go away.
If he wants to buy some bloody winter tyres, let him!
FWIW, the summers aren't being used, so it's not really a waste of money.
Regarding the OMG ARE THEY REALLY NECESSARY?!?!?!1111 debate, go away.
If he wants to buy some bloody winter tyres, let him!
FWIW, the summers aren't being used, so it's not really a waste of money.
Yes, probably 2 or 3 times.
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Over 800 quid on tyres you don't need is moronic... he's welcome to waste his money... but he came here looking for advice
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OK... rent a car when you go there then, it'll cost less than the tyres and they'll come with winter tyres...
Of course he can buy what he wants - he ASKED for an opinion. My opinion is that they're a waste of time. I'm not physcially preventing him, I'm trying to help save him from wasting his cash though.
Apart from the fact that winter tyres in non winter conditions will wear pooly and compromise in other areas. Which in the context of UK weather is 98% of the time.
No I didn't ask for advice on whether they were worth it. The advice I was asking for was on which one from the list. I don't care about the debate you seem to want to have. That's not the advice I requested. There's a difference, you are trying to force advice for something I didn't ask for.
Thanks for the input but I'm not interested in that debate, again.
Out of interest what "summer" tyres have you got - if they are yingyangs then by all means go ahead and get a set of winters, but if you have anything half decent then don't bother.
Given how poor winters are on wet roads (vs high performance tyres), and quickly snow gets cleared/salted/melts, then there honestly is little need in the UK for winters. Even if it snows - dropping a couple of psi out of your tyres can make a huge difference.
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Well all went well and I have my CSC5s on the front
- they feel considerably better already. They were down to 1.6mm at several positions, didn't realise they had worn so much, no wonder I nearly aqua planned off the road a few weeks back. Rears are at 2mm in some places, so only have a few thousand left on there. Will see how I get on with the CSC5s, but they can't possibly be worse than the Pirellis that Mercedes put on there.Bridgestone ER370's one of the pricer options when I bought them. They are now only about £68 each and I can understand why, I find them terrible.
Which is fair enough then - winter tyres might be worth having then, as having had a look there are no high performance summer tyres in that size - the only A rated wet weather is the Michelin energy saver +.