Winter tyres

[lozz]

iwouid Re-read all your threads if iwas you,
what youve put in them says mum /dad funds your car. fact!

Mines bought paid for by hard earned cash ive grafted for it makes me feel better actualy owning something ive worked for,
yea may be it has the odd part worn here and there but its safe recently passed its mot with a part worn on so its legal

[grasmere59]

Anyway back to the thread,i put a pair of winter tyres on the front last year and i could'nt believe the difference a tyre could make,it was like a different car,i even parked it in deep snow and from a standstill to try them out and it just pulled itself out with hardly a spin,i drove from Derbyshire to Oxfordshire on that bad weekend when we had all that snow with now dramas whatsoever,i think this weekend they will be going back on for the "winter" season.

[mjb]

i even parked it in deep snow and from a standstill to try them out and it just pulled itself out with hardly a spin,i drove from Derbyshire to Oxfordshire on that bad weekend when we had all that snow with now dramas whatsoever

Sounds boring...

[grasmere59]

I have a bmw 530i sport(rear wheel drive) for when it gets really boring

[mjb]

Yeah, there's "excitement", then there's "totally out of control spinning backwards, sideways, forwards, sideways, backwards down snowy hills"...

[teamster1975]

I had some "interesting" journeys last year in the white stuff, mind you I do have myself to blame as I was running very budget tyres.
Most interesting one was when I tried to make a hill and the car refused to play ball so I used a bit of handbrake and made a 180 turn on the spot!

[grasmere59]

To be honest the bmw went nowhere in the snow,i could'nt even get it off the drive so i just drove the 406 around it !

[OdinEidolon]

To be honest the bmw went nowhere in the snow,i could'nt even get it off the drive so i just drove the 406 around it !

Well, you know that, rear wheel drive on non grippy surfaces isn't ideal.

[grasmere59]

Winter tyres now on,you watch the sun come out !

[steve_earwig]

No, you watch the thermometer - below 7 degrees C they're the best thing to have on your car

[FarmerPug]

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/videos/fea ... tyres.html

[lozz]

Checked the tyres on my car today, Pirrelli on all 4 corners,
Got M+s on the side walls, guess thats Mud & snow?

wished inever looked now,
that means ineed 4 new tyres

Why do these M&s tyres sound so Groany, more noticable in the wet ?

[FarmerPug]

they are not just ordinary tyres, they are M and S tyres

[lozz]

they are not just ordinary tyres, they are M and S tyres

ive gatherd that mate,
but why are they so Groany?
theyve been on the car a year or so perhaps last owner paid good money for em and thought feck it wear em out,
had a partworn put on the spare, last month tyre chap said the 4 tyres where ok, Blind kint wait well isee him
was thinking this car was Tinny and it was just General road noise, but after today with the touch of frost/snow, sleet on the Roads the groan from em is unbearable,
will source a set of alloys that dont look too chavy and fling these M&s things

[grasmere59]

My winter tyres are Goodyears and they are as quiet as the normal tyres,pirelli tyres i find are noisy in standard form let alone m+s ones,i road tested a 406 a while back and it had Pirelli p6000's on and they were noisy.