Snow thread 2013

[dave]

Don't see the point of running 12 months of the year on tyres that are of true benefit perhaps 4 or 5 times a year and worse the rest of the time...also if you fitted them one winter did 12k by the next winter would they be ready for binning anyway?

winter tyres aint just for snow, summers lose most of their properties when they are 7 degrees or less,

A lot of people run happy shopper tyres, happy shopper winters will be better in rain than happy shopper summers most of the year.

( not sure if this bit true? on a rainy day air temp could be 10 but because water is cooling the tyres and preventing friction tyres will be 7 or less)

 

[StevenRB45]

The point is that you're not going to crash in the summer because of winter tyres. It's insurance basically

Theoretically you could, seem to remember a winter versus summer tyre test that was blighted by an unseasonably warm 5 degrees temp and saw summer tyres out performing the winter tyres in the tests. Wish i had a link to it as I'd like to back this up but cannot remeber where it was. This was continental summers versus winters so obviously results may differ with low end tyres.

 

[306maxi]

Theoretically you could, seem to remember a winter versus summer tyre test that was blighted by an unseasonably warm 5 degrees temp and saw summer tyres out performing the winter tyres in the tests. Wish i had a link to it as I'd like to back this up but cannot remeber where it was. This was continental summers versus winters so obviously results may differ with low end tyres.

I've driven on winter tyres in the middle of summer and they weren't fantastic, but they weren't going to be the difference between me crashing and not crashing. Summer tyres in the winter however....

 

[dave]

Theoretically you could, seem to remember a winter versus summer tyre test that was blighted by an unseasonably warm 5 degrees temp and saw summer tyres out performing the winter tyres in the tests. Wish i had a link to it as I'd like to back this up but cannot remeber where it was. This was continental summers versus winters so obviously results may differ with low end tyres.

anyway this was supposed to be a general Snow thread, not a winter tyres debate thread, see the winter thread in 500 section look at the start and see people who had same view to start with, but now wont drive a winter with out winter tyres

 

[Most Easterly Pandas]

Don't see the point of running 12 months of the year on tyres that are of true benefit perhaps 4 or 5 times a year and worse the rest of the time?

It's less than 7C for more than a week a year

 

[homeward]

It's less than 7C for more than a week a year

Round here (in the heart of landlocked middle England...), it can be less than minus 7°C (at night, anyways...) for much more than a week, each year...!

 

[sludgeguts]

Being a tightwad old codger from Yorkshire, I refuse to pay good money for a set of winter tyres on the offchance that we'll get anything more than a hard frost.
Whereas I'm happy that my £50 socks are on their 6th (?) year & done about 20 miles so far this year.
Couple of minutes to boot up (while the car warms up), seconds to take off.

Just trying to find cam footage of the muppets I saw who were going too fast for the conditions.

Sod's law dictates that the one behind me will be just too far back for the rear cam & the one in front of me will have spun out just too soon for the front cam to catch.


edit. what a piece of sh*t. Got footage from both cams. The rear cam stops as the car is a yard away from the kerb - but the audio continues & you can hear me PMSL as the nob goes up the kerb & then up a mound, stopping inches away from the ditch.
The front cam pixellates just as the van turns the corner & clears up just after the driver rights it & drives off.

 

[306maxi]

thing about winter tyres is that they give you x 10,000 miles of tyre life. In the long term they can save you money.

 

[dave]

ive actually got some snow today,

 

[Andy Monty]

Being a tightwad old codger from Yorkshire, I refuse to pay good money for a set of winter tyres on the offchance that we'll get anything more than a hard frost

Been a fellow White rose man i have found my summer tyres last longer when run in conjunction with winters...

Surprisingly summer rubber wears faster in winter...... (hard rubber crumbles on a microscopic level)

and winter tyres due to the softer compound wear faster in summer (well over 7^C)


So it saves you money in the long run if you keep your car a few years :woot: (not to mention the lesser chance of been involved in an accident and having the insurance premium bumped up or having to pay out for a new axle / wheel/ suspension components / drive train having slid into a curb

 

[PuntoHowTo]

Current situation in Norwich

 

[Most Easterly Pandas]

Current situation in Norwich

It started Snowing Lowestoft way about 1600 and is now settling, even on treated roads so I'm told. Is it a similar situation in Norwich at the moment out of interest then?

Will be interesting to see what my drive to work tomorrow morning is like if it is.

 

[PuntoHowTo]

i'm actually in Diss but from what i understand Norwich is not too dissimilar to what youve described for Lowestoft

Snow started hear in Diss at about 15:00 and so far we've had a good inch and a half car currently tucked up in car house ready for work at 6am had to move it right back as the snow was blowing in and covering the windscreen and bonnet

 

[Ziggy122]

well since BBS / MET both said it'd snow from early hours this morning
its only just started at 19:15

Ziggy

 

[StevenRB45]

well since BBS / MET both said it'd snow from early hours this morning
its only just started at 19:15

Ziggy

Its been other way here we weren't meant to get any before last Friday, yet we've had it since Tuesday, had a fresh coat between 8 and 10 this morning.

 

[homeward]

In my day, etc.....

Seriously, though, we were told "flurries", here; and it's snowed constantly for the last twelve hours. The Punto and Panda are buried; and the road is a couple of inches deep in the stuff... -- and it's freezing.... Where the heck is the gritter...? (It's been here twice a day, for the last week or so: but no sign of it, tonight....)

 

[Andy Monty]

In my day, etc.....

Seriously, though, we were told "flurries", here; and it's snowed constantly for the last twelve hours. The Punto and Panda are buried; and the road is a couple of inches deep in the stuff... -- and it's freezing.... Where the heck is the gritter...? (It's been here twice a day, for the last week or so: but no sign of it, tonight....)

probably forgot to fit it with winter tyres and its got stuck :devil:

 

[StevenRB45]

Back with a vengence today


Will be fun going to work in a bit.

 

[dave]

tractors with snow ploughs on stole most of our snow

 

[StevenRB45]

tractors with snow ploughs on stole most of our snow

You can take mine if you want....got about a foot deep in the back street where I park usually, all the roads are covered etc.