 Poster: A snowHead
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If it's compulsory in Austria to put winter tyres on from November to March, why do car hire companies charge extra for them? Do they charge extra in summer for ordinary tyres?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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RachelQ, because they're thieving barstewards?
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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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RachelQ, Is that a hire within Austria? Very surprised about that. If you hire a car in Germany they get away with it as it's not the law in that country. Effectively an Austrian registered car would already has winter tyres on to be road legal.
PSG
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Just a thought. If you are hiring IN Austria, just don't select the winter tyre option as the car will already be winterised to be legal to be available for hire.
PSG
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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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RachelQ, Hire from Salzburg, even if you are landing in Munich. The car hire companies in Germany do not have to put winter tyres on because there is no law forcing them to do so. In Austria they also have no law forcing you to use winter/snow tyres, but they do have the obligation to use "wintertaugliche Beriefung" which means the car hire companies have to provide tyres suitable for winter conditions in Austria.
Catch the S-Bahn from Munich Airport to the Ostbahnhof in Munich, then catch a train to Salzburg and get the care hire to deliver your car to the Hauptbahnhof in Salzburg and you are off! You may still need to book snow chains as they are only obligatory if you are going to mountain areas. Today most cars needed chains to get up to Zauchensee or Obertauern. I've just walked back to Haus Susanne from Radstadt centre and all the roads are covered with compacted snow and more is falling. If you do not have good winter tyres, you would be going nowhere fast. 
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eng_ch, my thoughts exactly!
gilleski, there wasn't an option to choose, but since we were hiring in Ausria, I assumed the car would come fully equipped. We paid the extra for snow chains, although we didn't need to use them.
Samerberg Sue, we flew into Salzurg so that's were we hired from with Sixt. And retrospectively got charged 2.50 Euros per day for winter tyres.
I just think it's a bit naughty to charge extra for 'winterisation of vehicle' during the months that it's mandatory anyway.
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RachelQ, it's only mandatory if the conditions require it (new can of worms) - you might think that should be enough to say they shouldn't charge, but what if conditions did not require the winter tyres? I agree with you on the principle
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