Winter tyre advice please.

[Scania]

I live in Leek, Staffordshire, and this town gets a lot of snow over winter, not helped by pretty much all of the major routes having hills on them into and out of the town.

In the past, I've always found - with RWD especially - my problem is driven wheel grip.

I have good rear michelins, the fronts need replacing.
I'm considering putting the good rears on the front and buying a couple of Michelin winter tyres for the rear.

My thinking is this should help with rear end grip, my thinking being last year I remember (in my old 528) having no problems steering on snow, but the rear end was a bit wayward to put it mildly!

I'm assuming having better gripping rear tyres should be ok? - I've always worked on the assumption the rears should have the most tread etc..


Thoughts appreciated.

 

[Scania]

If you're going to put winter tyres on your car then do it properly and put winter tyres on all 4 corners.

This was my initial plan, I'm asking after a discussion with a tyre fitter this morning, his point was I've managed in snow upto now, and never bought winter tyres previously, he said its a relatively common thing to do....

 

[Scania]

That is most interesting. I had always understood that Winter tyres were meant to be used in ambient temperatures of 7°C or lower. I had assumed that if used in the Summer, they would wear VERY

I found his reply interesting too mate,

I'm probably going to go for just rears initially and eventually swap the fronts for winters as & when they have worn out.

It's not like we get much in the way of summer anymore anyway!