Tyres non matching tread pattern

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I got Linglong ditchfinders all round. My backend went out last summer in the wet, and my front end had trouble making it round a roundabout in the wet on Xmas day night. Scary scary! :rotfl:

Gloomendoom

sevenhills wrote: »

Has your wife got experience of driving in UK snow, is she expecting some more??

Yes, plenty. I couldn't make them work either and I've got more experience, both in the UK and abroad.

Not on the Landsails, no.


If the weather warms up I may leave them on until next winter.

Joe_Horner

Gloomendoom wrote: »

My wife has Landsail ditchfinders on her car and they are fine... except in snow where they are absolutely useless. They have no grip in any direction at all. Both scary and dangerous.

Really? Not what I found last year (excuse the non-set date & time on the dashcam):

https://www.facebook.com/joe.horner.3/videos/vb.100002326654294/1602127416541465/

Gloomendoom

Joe_Horner wrote: »

Really? Not what I found last year (excuse the non-set date & time on the dashcam):

There's a fair bit of tarmac showing throughout on that video. On fresh snow over unbroken hard packed snow there was virtually no grip at all. They are Landsail LS588 SUV by-the-way.

Joe_Horner

Gloomendoom wrote: »

There's a fair bit of tarmac showing throughout on that video. On fresh snow over unbroken hard packed snow there was virtually no grip at all. They are Landsail LS588 SUV by-the-way.

There's also a lot of solid, hard packed snow (ie: ice), which is as slippery as it gets, across the whole width of the road. Including on uphill stretches, and on several stretches where there was 18 inches or so of snow under one side's wheels and tarmac on the other.

If there was "no grip" on the snow side that would have had me driving in circles! But, as the video clearly shows, driven according to the conditions it really wasn't a problem.

Apologies for not leaving work early to ensure I was the first vehicle down there, but the point remains - the "Landsail ditchfinders" really didn't cause an issue driven appropriately.


eta: incidentally, if you watch closely arond the 1:57 mark you'll see that the back end did start to head off to the right (my error, I'm only human) but a gentle correction caught it without any drama. If the tyres were as useless in snow as you suggest, that would NOT have been possible!

Gloomendoom

Joe_Horner wrote: »

There's also a lot of solid, hard packed snow (ie: ice), which is as slippery as it gets, across the whole width of the road. Including on uphill stretches, and on several stretches where there was 18 inches or so of snow under one side's wheels and tarmac on the other.

If there was "no grip" on the snow side that would have had me driving in circles! But, as the video clearly shows, driven according to the conditions it really wasn't a problem.

Apologies for not leaving work early to ensure I was the first vehicle down there, but the point remains - the "Landsail ditchfinders" really didn't cause an issue driven appropriately.


eta: incidentally, if you watch closely arond the 1:57 mark you'll see that the back end did start to head off to the right (my error, I'm only human) but a gentle correction caught it without any drama. If the tyres were as useless in snow as you suggest, that would NOT have been possible!

Joe... in my experience, they are useless in snow.

You are entitled to your own opinion, but you won't change mine.

thescouselander

Personally I wouldn't mix tyres on the same axle and its usually not recommended. Maybe the tyre place made a mistake. I think you should go back and get them to correct the problem.