Winter tyres

[Spencer Mulcahy]

Richie I would pic an argument with someone else James is one big fooker lol.

[MikePimlott]

Originally Posted by Spencer Mulcahy

Richie I would pic an argument with someone else James is one big fooker lol.

YEAH!!! James swings on winter tyres whilst eating a banana and beating his chest

[Col]

James is a big, soft, pillock.
The reason he drives a base model non turbo scoob is two-fold... he can't handle a turbo, and (judging be his RC skills) he can't handle his RWD beemer in the slippy either!







































Just joking big boy! To the best of my knowlege I've never been close to the same lap times a James, regardless of chassis

[Spencer Mulcahy]

Balls of cheese Col lol

[johnnygibbon]

Just got a pair of these badboys
10" colway mud and snow rally tyres
In my rwd fox these are gonna be ace

[Stu]

Used forrest rally rubber is cheap, normally stamped 'competition use only', is that a problem?

[richie.]

Originally Posted by Spencer Mulcahy

Richie I would pic an argument with someone else James is one big fooker lol.

I'll be off like a racing snake in the wifes corsa if im in the insignia that may be a different matter

[bigred5765]

Originally Posted by Stu

Used forrest rally rubber is cheap, normally stamped 'competition use only', is that a problem?

not if you have a dremmel

[daz]

Originally Posted by Spencer Mulcahy

Balls of cheese Col lol

Col has no balls, they are definitely attached to his wife in his household

[Richard Lowe]

Originally Posted by MikePimlott

YEAH!!! James swings on winter tyres whilst eating a banana and beating his chest

That made me actually lol


I do agree with the correct rubber being more important in general than 4wd, I've found out in the R32 on Pilot Sport 3's in winter that...

1 - You never get stuck
2 - You cant stop or turn

To be honest I'd much rather have a front wheel drive car with proper winter tyres in the snow, 4wd is good for making progress forward but can catch you out sometimes. I've found out a couple of times if the road has lots of camber the second you start spinning all four wheels the whole car just slides sideways in whatever direction the road slopes, and with the Golf being about as heavy as a double decker bus once it starts sliding generally you don't stop

[budfish]

I've had to abandon the wife's BMW 320d about 2 miles from my house even the slightest gradient was a challenge with the 18" run flats but to be fair it was traffic queuing on the hill that caused me to abandon it at the bottom still I wouldn't buy winter tyres ill just jump in the Volvo tomorrow and rescue it

[mark christopher]

Originally Posted by Stu

Used forrest rally rubber is cheap, normally stamped 'competition use only', is that a problem?

Only problem is their harder compound, when we did the RAC and it snowed they were wank, ended up buying the right tyres, though there prob better than road tyres

[bodgit]

Wish I had winters last night. I came out of the vue after a film in Ellesmere Port about 8.30 and it was coming down fast so decided to skip the pub. The roads were deep in it, no gritters had been out at all. The car was skewing sideways up the aston hill just about made it to the top then 1hr 45mins later what should have been a 20 min trip I could'nt get up the dropped kerb into my drive. All that way crawling and beaten by the last yard.

[johnnygibbon]

Been out with the colway tyres today she's unstoppable and so much fun it's untrue been flying up hills and digging through 8 " deep powder

[bodgit]

To reopen this Im definatley going to get winter tyres fitted to my spare wheels. Feb 13 On my 4mm michelin primacy 3 my car refused to turn and skidded into the kerb . Up to now its cost me £570 plus the bearing when I do it. Saturday I got a call from the garage to collect my daughters car. I've been in for a few weeks with a slipped disc but managed to take her there Getting home I got stuck on a small gradiant and wasted the 4mm down to the wear indicaters trying to find grip spinning them at 65mph while 4 people were trying to push it.
Now I've got to fork out for new summer tyres and a pair of winters which I wish I had fitted in hindsight.

[percymon]

I'm on my third winter on a set of Nokian W+ tyres (on steelies which do nothing for the looks but the car is filthy from Nov to April anyway) - been superb, £54 a corner and they've saved 15000 miles of wear on my £140 a corner summer tyres so far, not to mention kept my alloys looking great.

Two days after i collected my current car when new, I found myself in 2" of snow, going nowhere - it took that long to make progress up a slight incline that the traction control system actually gave up after 20 minutes.

I've driven on winter tyres in 12" of fresh snow, compacted snow and ice and never had an issue. Biggest problems with winter tyres are..

1. don't get too cocky - the laws of physics only allow so much
2. other road users think they can do the same as you on their wide summer tyres - i've had numerous occassions where cars following me have piroetted into kerbs and barriers because they think they can do what the car in front does
3. it upsets the Range Rover Sport owners that you make progress when they can budge - some might say this is a bonus

[Stu]

Im not sure if Jimmy will include this business in the Players report but winter tyres were a factor in us getting there in time for pub on Friday. If the geezer behind does not have winter tyres on he's gonna struggle to slow down as fast as you when you slow down in a hurry.

[Oscar]

I'M with Stu on this one, proper winter tyres are the bollocks, after all 50 million of our eastern European neighbours can't be wrong.....


Seriously we have Fulda winter rubber on our swift and it seems happy to go wherever you ask, without complaint

[daz]

Anyone heard of Haida tyres? Just had 2 fitted 235/35/19, £65 each fitted and balanced

[bodgit]

Originally Posted by daz

Anyone heard of Haida tyres? Just had 2 fitted 235/35/19, £65 each fitted and balanced

They're chinese budget tyres.
Excellent in the wet. Many boats have them hanging over the side