Budget Winter Tyres

[ChrisUK]

I always found Falken Ziex 512's to be very good "all round". Decent in dry wet and wearing.

 

[Peter Pick-Up]

My choice if I wanted an all weather tyre...
( Not Italian though....)



http://www.mytyres.co.uk/cgi-bin/rs...pro_Seite=15&Transport=P&dsco=110&sowigan=GAN

 

[Peter Pick-Up]

My current winter tyres:

Fiat Palio: http://www.mytyres.co.uk/cgi-bin/rs..._pro_Seite=20&Transport=P&dsco=110&sowigan=Wi

Alfa GT: http://www.mytyres.co.uk/cgi-bin/rs..._pro_Seite=20&Transport=P&dsco=110&sowigan=Wi

 

[Ziggy122]

Hi-Fly are budget M+S tyres
i dont really rate them when they were on my alloys

Okay when its dry - so i can wear them down - but not that good in the wet

I've got Toyo 350's on my Steelies atm, there 84 weight rating not 81 and quiet hard, wheel spinning is an easy option, so is understeer....

What im trying to say is Weight rating does apply very much too!

Ziggy

 

[dave]

had the Achilles fitted today, now need weather to test them

 

[dave]

well it snowed today and my Achilles Winter 101 coped just fine

there was a lorry jackknifed on my main route to town, so i cut through miles of country un-gritted back roads, did some emergency stop testing they stopped really well, i was beginning to think maybe the road isn't as slippery as i thought until i came across a car that had come off the road in to a hedge.

 

[Ziggy122]

Snow? All we've got it Bloody cold

forecast for some dandruff thats about it

Im going to try the Uni-royals when i get chance too - they will be going on the rears tho and wear the all seasons out to replace them at some point

Ziggy

 

[dave]

the tyres i bought were £53 when i got them, they are £61 now they probably wont be a budjet tyre this time next year

 

[Ziggy122]

my uniroyal MS plus 6
£40 per tyre (not inc del or fitting)

Loving how brilliant they are on the road! Shame there on the rear, but my back end has been stable and wonderful on the oh so slippy back roads

Come next year i hopefully will have worn down my front tyres to fit winters on them

Ziggy

 

[Peter Pick-Up]

Never, ever mix winter/summer tyres on a car.
It's 4 winter tyres front and rear,( or all season, or summer.)
Mixing different purpose tyres will result in unpredictable and potential dangerous roadholding...!!

 

[Most Easterly Pandas]

Never, ever mix winter/summer tyres on a car.
It's 4 winter tyres front and rear,( or all season, or summer.)
Mixing different purpose tyres will result in unpredictable and potential dangerous roadholding...!!

Not nessecarily. He's got them the right way around though being on the rear.

 

[Peter Pick-Up]

Unpredictable and dangerous.

 

[Peter Pick-Up]

http://tires.about.com/od/buyers_guide/a/What-You-Need-To-Know-About-Winter-Tires.htm

 

[Peter Pick-Up]

 

[306maxi]

Unpredictable and dangerous.

I agree.

 

[Ziggy122]

tbh i find the car way more stable

The rule with tyres is always put your best tyres on the rear - as they are less likely to slide and if a slide occours regain grip

the front will have winter tyres - when the front ones wear out

and on a fwd - if the front aint gonna grip - they aint gonna grip

Ziggy

 

[dragonwagon]

I have Sava Eskimo S2's on my old Panda 4x4. probably the cheapest of the lot on mytyres. But then again, it isn't rapid or high powered......they just work when it counts in heavy snow and sheet ice.

 

[Most Easterly Pandas]

Tire Rack Tire Test - Winter Tires: Mixed vs. Matched Tires - YouTube

I'm sorry but that car behaved no differently to if it had summers on all four wheels. That was perfectly predictable if you understand how tyres work and how to drive accordingly (which I suspect Ziggy122 does).

 

[Caravadossi]

The wisdom of mixing AS & winter tyres fell into disrepute in Canada following the Bathurst School bus tragedy in New Brunswick that was fatal to the school basket ball team.

Interestingly I note that Quebec has ruled that a tyre marked `M+S’ doesn’t make it a winter tyre – perhaps the start of bringing that stunt to an end, at least in Canada.

130125

 

[Most Easterly Pandas]

Interestingly I note that Quebec has ruled that a tyre marked `M+S’ doesn’t make it a winter tyre – perhaps the start of bringing that stunt to an end, at least in Canada.

130125

they didn't need to get that ruled as its fact. Any manufacture can stick M&S on any tyre without justification. It's the winter snow flake symbol which means its a winter tyre.