Tyres New Ones Twice Year or Pay for Storage

Skulls

3 years ago I bought winter tyres for the first time, now I would not be without them in the winter. This year I have replaced 2 of them with new Goodyear Ultragrip9's, not yet on car but will be in the next week or so. The replaced tyres have done about 18k and are more than legal but I would prefer 8mm of tread on driving wheels instead of about 4mm. Nothing beats the feeling when you pass a stuck BMW X5 in a Citroen C1 ! The new tyres cost £39.99 delivered from Germany and guess where I live, Folkestone, Kent the garden of England! As for storage, they fit under my bed.

Gloomendoom

Skulls wrote: »

.As for storage, they fit under my bed.

Don't they stink your bedroom out?

Ultrasonic

getmore4less wrote: »

if it for this vehicle I would not be puuting passengers at risk with cheap tyres.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5105941

From a safety point of view the vehicle is irrelevant.

Out of interest do all season tyres meet the requirements for winter driving in Europe? Personally I have winter tyres on a second set of wheels as all seasons are too much of a comoromise all year round (poorere performance than summers in summer as well as winters in winter).

Goldenyears

I fitted Goodyear Vector 4Seasons because of good reviews. They are marked with the winter symbol so should be legal in those countries which require winter performance tyres.

Iceweasel

Ultrasonic wrote: »

From a safety point of view the vehicle is irrelevant.

Out of interest do all season tyres meet the requirements for winter driving in Europe? Personally I have winter tyres on a second set of wheels as all seasons are too much of a comoromise all year round (poorere performance than summers in summer as well as winters in winter).

There are all different kinds of all-seasons some are classed as winter tyres others are not.

You need to check on the sidewall.

It needs to say M+S, or M+S with the 'Snowflake on the Mountain' symbol, to be a winter tyre - and in Austria they need to have 4mm of tread left.

There are 2 sets of TWI (Tyre Wear Indicators) on a winter tyre - the usual ones at the legal minimum of 1.6mm and another at 4mm.

This is why the part-worn tyre market in the UK is flooded with winter tyre cast-offs from the Alpine countries.

Gloomendoom

Ultrasonic wrote: »

From a safety point of view the vehicle is irrelevant.

Out of interest do all season tyres meet the requirements for winter driving in Europe? Personally I have winter tyres on a second set of wheels as all seasons are too much of a comoromise all year round (poorere performance than summers in summer as well as winters in winter).

I've never found mine wanting, summer or winter.

As an all-season user, they were standard fit on the car I bought, I'd advise reading reviews before buying if at all possible. They are a compromise and you need to make sure that their strengths and weaknesses suit your specific needs.

AdrianC

Iceweasel wrote: »

It needs to say M+S, or M+S with the 'Snowflake on the Mountain' symbol, to be a winter tyre - and in Austria they need to have 4mm of tread left.

M+S does not mean winter tyre.

All M+S means is that there are grooves cut clear across the tread, and that there's a certain ratio of groove-to-rubber. Most budget tyres are M+S marked.

mgdavid

AdrianC wrote: »

M+S does not mean winter tyre.

All M+S means is that there are grooves cut clear across the tread, and that there's a certain ratio of groove-to-rubber. Most budget tyres are M+S marked.

They aren't.
Do you know what M + S actually stands for?

AdrianC

mgdavid wrote: »

They aren't.
Do you know what M + S actually stands for?

Yes, thank you. And - as ever - what it "stands for" and what it actually means in practice are two entirely different things.

Unless, of course, you regard the cheap chinese off-brand 45-profiles my mother got stiffed for on her 207 as "mud and snow"... They could barely cope with dry tarmac.

SG27

Skulls wrote: »

3 years ago I bought winter tyres for the first time, now I would not be without them in the winter. This year I have replaced 2 of them with new Goodyear Ultragrip9's, not yet on car but will be in the next week or so. The replaced tyres have done about 18k and are more than legal but I would prefer 8mm of tread on driving wheels instead of about 4mm. Nothing beats the feeling when you pass a stuck BMW X5 in a Citroen C1 ! The new tyres cost £39.99 delivered from Germany and guess where I live, Folkestone, Kent the garden of England! As for storage, they fit under my bed.

year before last I casually passed a bmw x5 stuck on a slight but protracted incline. Very satisfying.