Technical All Season Tyres

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Technical All Season Tyres

James The Butler

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The Continental All Seasons are on my 4x4 Twin Air, now down to slightly above 3 mm. My Tyres have the Contis at £96 fitted ! I see Black Circles have Goodyear 4 seasons around the £70 mark and these had good reports from this community a few months back, My Tyres also have Nokian and Vredstein 4 Seasons each around around the £70 mark with Nankang at £56. I'm tempted to go for the Goodyears, so glad to hear your experiences of other brands (and any good prices !) I am probably going to keep the car, a 64 plate, for another 12 to 18 months and dither about getting the Nankangs for that time. Thanks.
 
This link shows you a number of tyre tests. There's a general consistency about them although most of the info is particularly relevant to those parts of northern Europe where extremes of cold and snow are more common than in the majority of the UK.

Taking that into account, you might actually be more interested in which tyres perform best in dry conditions and, of course, wet conditions.

http://www.tyrereviews.co.uk/
 
on my second set of Nokian Allweather tyres cant fault them, we do get snow and ice here in the Highlands, and live at altitude, so we have snow for a few months at a time, they only last around 18k, but otherwise great for me.
 
The Continental All Seasons are on my 4x4 Twin Air, now down to slightly above 3 mm. My Tyres have the Contis at £96 fitted ! I see Black Circles have Goodyear 4 seasons around the £70 mark and these had good reports from this community a few months back, My Tyres also have Nokian and Vredstein 4 Seasons each around around the £70 mark with Nankang at £56. I'm tempted to go for the Goodyears, so glad to hear your experiences of other brands (and any good prices !) I am probably going to keep the car, a 64 plate, for another 12 to 18 months and dither about getting the Nankangs for that time. Thanks.
Just checking: the original tyres fitted to the 4x4 are Continentals, but winter tyres, not all season (CrossContact Winter)... so a 'true' winter tyre which should perform better in cold conditions than an all-season (the latter still being much better in the cold than a summer tyre of course). My experience is that they are very long lasting - easily achieving 30,000 miles and still with wear to spare. However, they are (reportedly) not so good in the summer in the wet.
 
Fitted full set of Goodyear 4season 14" couple of months back from kwickfit special offer £179 all in, might be worth checking if offer still on.
 
The Goodyears were factory-fitted on my Cross, and were excellent imo - OK in the summer, and brilliant in the winter. They were also very long-lived (over 35k miles). The only downside was that they tended to squeal on tight roundabouts. Their replacements (Michelin CrossClimates) are quieter, but are wearing more rapidly. Not had a chance to test them in the snow yet.
 
I've just fitted a set of new ContiWinterContact TS860's to my TA 4x4 and they are very good. Amazingly quiet, very comfy ride quality and now that the surfaces have scrubbed up a bit, very grippy in the current conditions. These replaced a set of Nokian Weatherproofs which were also good and lasted about 23,000 miles. However they became noisy as they wore (down to about 3mm at the end) and the ride became more brittle.

A full winter tyre like the original CrossContactWinters with which the car was fitted when I bought it (almost new). These new TS860's are very well reviewed and in one particular All-Season test where they were brought in as a benchmark/reference full winter (together with a Michelin summer tyre at the other end of the reference spectrum) - and they won outright across all conditions. It was a Tyre Reviews test I recall and this included dry grip, wet braking/grip and of course full snow, where they walked off into the distance.

Anyway, they're very good and highly recommended. £50 each, delivered, from MyTyres.co.uk.
 
Thank you all. With a 'Black Friday' offer I have just bought 2 of the Goodyear 4 seasons from Black Circles @ £ 57 per tyre fitted.
 
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