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Do I need winter tyres and a telepeage?
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Megamum - so far so good - no dropped tickets, and my windows are electric, but I have yet to try and get money into the machine with them!
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Flicking through this thread as I'm considering driving out to the Alps for the Winter (working in St Anton for the season) and am a little confused, are M+S rated tyres the same as snow tyres, or are they different? If they are different, which would be the best to use, I'd be heading out end of Nov and returning once the snow's gone (end of April/start of May)?


And don't get me started on dropping tickets, dropped one the other day (was a little token) at the front of a queue to get out the car park and ended up having to get down on my hands and knees to fish it out from under the car Embarassed
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Sitter,

M&S rated tyres are tyres with block patterns able to "dig" into mud and snow to increase traction. It is just a tread pattern.

If one wants to go fast one uses slick tyres without any tread as those used in F1 racing. For fast driving and good stability the tyre needs to have continuous circumferential rings. Blocks are created by cutting up a continuous ring. They generate a bigger road noise and decrease the braking efficiency of the tyre as blocks can deform and some parts of the circumferential ring has no rubber but air!

M&S tyres is a half way house for winter condition. It is certainly better than the fast motorway tyre designed for high speed but not a matchfor the true winter tyre.

Winter tyres also have M&S blocks in their treads but the material has been deliberately softened significantly to increase braking efficient on ice and snow surfaces. Winter tyre generally have loads of zig zag micro grooves call sips for griping the snow to increase traction. Due to the soft compound winter can wear out quickly in summer and hence many European motorists keep two sets of tyres for the two seasons.

A UK motorist can carefully select a set of all season tyre and in new condition that may be adequate for European winter road, as long as a set of snow chains on available on standby.

If you are going to be there for the whole season a set of winter tyres would be a lot safer. UK do sell winter tyres which can be 10 to 40% dearer. If you have a 4WD vehicle a set of newish all season tyres should be OK. At the end of the day it is a matter of the convenience of able to go whenever you want. It is not nice and may be even unsafe if you discover the tyres are not up to the job in a winter journey.
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Thanks.

Swinging towards the flight now I think anyway as it'd be cheaper and although the freedom would be nice, I really don't think I'll use the car that much.
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