(Boring) Another tyre thread -- which winter tyres?

TiTheRev

jase1 wrote: »

Nope, 205/55/16 just like you

Maybe we can get a bulk deal? That's my tyre size too!

jase1

Maybe

I think this thread has put my mind at rest re the Nokians. I will keep monitoring the usual sites and if they fall in price to something similar to £60 over the summer I'll snap four of them up (I suspect that the prices of them are still quite high because of the fact that there is still demand for them in some colder countries on the continent). It has to be said that across the board (remoulds, budgets, mid-range and premium) the winter tyres are still around 1/3 more expensive than comparable summer tyres, and from what I have been able to ascertain this isn't the norm, so the waiting game it is.

Lum

For me the Nokians are cheaper than my summer tyres. I pay about £100 a corner for a Goodyear Eagle F1 GSD3.

So I guess they truly are moneysaving, since they keep the wear off the Goodyears while making me less likely to have an accident* and also keeping me mobile.

* excluding rear end accidents. You need to be extra cautious when stopping because of the idiot behind you in their X5 running on low profile summer tyres.

jase1

£100 a corner? Yikes....

But then as I said, I'm from the North!

Fair point about the X5. I suppose I can keep that one in reserve for when the car needs scrapping....

(No I didn't just say that).

mikey72

jase1 wrote: »

I note that mikey72 mentions having no issue with having lesser tyres at the back -- is this a viable way of keeping the price down?

This was a big discussion last year, I've found no problems using Nokians on the front, and Hero on the back.
Other posters insist you will die if you don't use four, all equally matched.

The hero gets a mixed review,

http://www.tyretest.com/pkw_sommerreifen/hero/hr_668/index.html

but I had no problems stopping, starting, turning, anything really, and I wasn't driving too slowly.
Seems a very good tyre.

The only way I could get the car to slide was to use the handbrake playing in the snow.

Kilty_2

Could've sold you 4 Bridgestone A001s for buttons a couple of weeks ago :mad:

jase1

Now that's interesting because that Hero isn't really a winter tyre by the looks of things. I don't think, personally, that mismatching tyres front-to-rear is an issue as long as the tyres have comparable levels of grip (so having Toyo on the front, Pirelli on the back for instance as I have isn't going to cause any problems). Seems that the Heros have been good enough to keep up with the Nokians.

Shame about those A001s, Kilty

Kilty_2

They were epic in ice/snow but expensive. Dealer got them on my P/X

jase1

Noooo!

Dealers have always received the light-bulb treatment when I've traded cars in. No aftermarket stereo (the old one goes back in), no alloys etc etc. I'd have had those A001s off and the cheapest part-worns I could find on

Kilty_2

I know, but I didn't have anywhere to store them

Just drove with full throttle starts everywhere for a week