Snow socks

wannabe_sybil

anotherbaldrick wrote: »

If you look on the side wall of the tyre you will find a series of numbers in large In this number will be an R with a number after it, this number is the tyre size , probably 15,16, or 17

Thank you, this is really helpful for me!

Hammyman

Just buy a set of winter tyres....

wannabe_sybil

Hammyman wrote: »

Just buy a set of winter tyres....

Genuine question, I am honestly clueless, can we get a part exchange on summer tyres? I don't like to ask our nice mechanic neighbour who already has trouble keeping a face straight.

We have nowhere to put the summer tyres so we would have to spend £400 (I think that's right, from the little I have seen) on the tyres and then I guess the same again in Spring. If we can part exchange it isn't so bad. That is why I was looking at snow socks for @ £50.

Though perhaps it would be worth it, just finding the pennies.

anotherbaldrick

To buy a set of recommended winter tyres for my humble golf (Dunlop sport M3) would cost £480 . Being aware of the bead distress a tyre must go through in the fitters hands I would not want to be swapping them on and off the same rims so it's buying another set of steel rims say £200 . Then it's balancing etc. Then it's storing the spare set and finally what if we have a mild winter coming up ?

mikey72

£10 for a set of rims for mine off ebay, and £50 + £10 fitting each for two tyres for the front, and no more problems with hills. Then put the summer wheels and tyres back on in March.

agrinnall

martinthebandit wrote: »

Sorry OP but they, like winter tyres, are a waste of time and money in the UK

In the unlikely event you did ever need them to get you going, you would just end up stuck behind all the other cars that have got stuck because the drivers had no idea how to drive on snow and ice.

Clearly you don't live in the northern half of Scotland where I do, winter tyres made my life considerably easier last winter than in the previous winter when I didn't have them. Of course, people up here actually have some idea how to drive in bad conditions, unlike you southern softies.

[Deleted User]

Did loads of research into this last year, i got some winter tyres after having a car snowed in for 2 years in a row where i am, they were a revelation, my dad has a lexus rx450 and it went through the same stuff his car would and mine was only 2wd unlike his, they are amazing, forget snow socks spend the extra on the tyres you'll not look back....

Imp

wannabe_sybil wrote: »

I have dislocated four shoulders

I sympathise, having dislocated one shoulder five times, however,


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agrinnall

wannabe_sybil wrote: »

Genuine question, I am honestly clueless, can we get a part exchange on summer tyres? I don't like to ask our nice mechanic neighbour who already has trouble keeping a face straight.

We have nowhere to put the summer tyres so we would have to spend £400 (I think that's right, from the little I have seen) on the tyres and then I guess the same again in Spring. If we can part exchange it isn't so bad. That is why I was looking at snow socks for @ £50.

Though perhaps it would be worth it, just finding the pennies.

£400 seems a lot, I got a set of 4 steel wheels and winter tyres from mytyres.com (delivered by courier from Germany) for £260. What size are your tyres, have you found out yet? Also, if you have a front wheel drive car and conditions aren't likely to be too bad then you could just put winter tyres on the front wheels, it's not as good as all 4 but would probably be enough to keep you moving.

You will probably find that tyre fitters will store the tyres that you're not using, they'll charge for it but it may not be a lot. I have enough room to store my wheels but two of my neighbours both used fitter storage, one with an independent and one with KwikFit.

wannabe_sybil

Imp wrote: »

I sympathise, having dislocated one shoulder five times, however,


??????????????????????????????????? - You have FOUR shoulders - ????????????????????

I did both shoulders at the same time (made bathroom visits interesting) and then (a few years apart) the left shoulder twice more then froze it almost exactly thirty days after the last dislocation so couldn't move it for another fortnight. Four shoulders and a frozen. Sprained both ankles and a wrist and dislocated a toe over the years. It was the dislocation/frozen shoulder during the last spell of icy weather but the year before it was a torn ankle ligament during the snow.

I get a bit nervous about falling in icy weather, for some reason...