Poster: A snowHead
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Now having a bit of a dilema about snow tyres...
I know that weather changes all the time and having experienced using old snow tyres last season in wet snow (read terrible traction in a heavy, front wheel drive estate...) we invested in a new set (Nokian WR's btw... )
However, with unseasonably warm weather forecasted and only guesswork predictions of significant snow during the time we are out (13th-29th Jan) should I take them off and just run my normal summer tyres and have chains in the boot.
Reason for considering this is that I would expect that the new tyres will wear quicker in these high temperatures and seemingly with the absence of major falls it seems a bit pointless/expensive.
Thoughts?
Cheers
David
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well I think the warmish weather you refer to is not that warm. Snow tyres do not wear excessively below 16 degrees and offer better traction even in just wet weather. I put on my snow tyres in November and take them off in April and I live in the south of France. Even though where I live rarely gets below 7 degrees (apart from trips to the mountains) I don't notice the tyres wearing heavily
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Keep them on, at christmas there was not much snow in flaine, but the car parks had lots of compacted icy bits, so pleased i had them on a rear wheel drive estate, especially next to a dutch reg koren 4x4 that just spun its wheels (summer tyres).
One un nerving bit was getting stuck for a bit as snow tyres are directional and don't seem to work very well going in the wrong direction ie. backwards!
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Go on, skinutter, leave the snow tyres at home and provoke the snow gods.... Well no, actually, I agree with Diarmuid. I haven't regretted having my snow tyres on, even though I needed the chains too on the one day of snow we have had this year, to get from here to Les Saisies, past the Hameau where you will be staying.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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