Should we be using winter tyres in the UK?

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Originally Posted by Daniel

People will start to understand that Global Warming isn't meant to purely give more warmth when they understand that Winter tyres aren't just for snow.

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Swimming cap is also not only for swimming, its easier to pick up the drivers brain from the car floor, after driving accident on snow with summer tyres, if he is wearing a swimming cap.

Apparently having winter tyres and then changing to summer/normal tyres is not cost effective. ;)

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Originally Posted by Tomi

Swimming cap is also not only for swimming, its easier to pick up the drivers brain from the car floor, after driving accident on snow with summer tyres, if he is wearing a swimming cap.

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Kind of like a helmet is not to protect a motorcyclists head, but to keep their brains from making a mess of the road? :erm:

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Originally Posted by Ian The Poet

Apparently having winter tyres and then changing to summer/normal tyres is not cost effective. ;)

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Does not compute?

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Originally Posted by Daniel

Kind of like a helmet is not to protect a motorcyclists head, but to keep their brains from making a mess of the road? :erm:

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same idea, but this is for people with not so strong neck.

It pretty much apys for itself if it saves your life .... and you family's ;)

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Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa

Daniel, All I can say if you never see snow after this week, then you will chew those winter tires up. You need more than a week here or there to justify the extra set, the extra rims and taking them on and off every spring and fall.

A good all season radial SHOULD be enough to get buy if you really careful.

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-Summer tires wear faster than winter tires at low temperatures

-Take them on and off when you need them... 10 minutes :)

-All season are neither here nor there, don't let "M&S" fool you... they´re not as good as proper summer tires in "summer" or proper winter tyres in "winter", so you´d need to be careful all year round :p :

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Originally Posted by henners88

Do they cost more than 80 quid a corner? If they do, then I'm happy with my present ones.. :)

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how much does a small prang cost? How much would your insurance premiums increase?



I wear winters roughly between November and April, even though this year is the first in a decade I´ve seen more than 3-4 days of snow... to quote wotsisname: "it's the temperature, stoopid!" :p :

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Originally Posted by Ian The Poet

Apparently having winter tyres and then changing to summer/normal tyres is not cost effective. ;)

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????

Because you have to buy 4 more tyres

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Originally Posted by donKey jote

-Summer tires wear faster than winter tires at low temperatures

-Take them on and off when you need them... 10 minutes :)

-All season are neither here nor there, don't let "M&S" fool you... they´re not as good as proper summer tires in "summer" or proper winter tyres in "winter", so you´d need to be careful all year round :p :


how much does a small prang cost? How much would your insurance premiums increase?



I wear winters roughly between November and April, even though this year is the first in a decade I´ve seen more than 3-4 days of snow... to quote wotsisname: "it's the temperature, stoopid!" :p :

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Donkey, I think "all season" tires sold here in Canada are a far more capable tire in snow and the wet than maybe what is available in the UK. I will defer to you, but most tires sold in Canada are all season radials. For 90% of the driving people do here, they are safe tires. I don't see the point in having winter or "snow" tires in a climate where you may not see a flake of snow some winters. Listen, you and I probably see simliar winters, with you in Germany and I here. Snow tires do make sense here. Storage, the extra set of rims, and the changing them back and forth (takes longer when you do it yourself with a jack and wrench) are worth it for the Canadian winter. In Quebec, it is LAW if you live there you must have snow tires.

I get around alright with just All seasons. I have had more than few cars and yet to have put snow's on only because my part of the province doesn't see the snow that other parts get. It is a good idea, but in the UK? Unless I was in Scotland where I know I would see snow more than 5 days a year, I would'nt bother.

I'm listening to Radio Five Live and they said that last night the temperature dropped to -21 in Highlands, that's cold even for us. How are you Britts coping since your houses are drafty and not so warm??