Winter tyres?

Here's a hint, Fred - a successful usenet insult doesn't consist entirely of posting 'that's you, that is'.

Perhaps you could work on some original and inspirational material?

Fred

You always push the teflon cheapies on here when anyone asks.

No, it doesn't.

It shows that you can take an order and post out a tyre. It doesn't tell anyone that you know anything about what you're actually selling.

Punting out s*it to people who won't know they've bought s*it until they lock up when they should be stopping.

You *do* sell crap tyres, it doesn't matter which tyres you, personally have 'drove' (driven, BTW) on, it doesn't matter what you think of Colways, what does matter is that you're punting out tyres that fall way short of the levels of grip most posters in here would expect. I'd go as far to say that a lot of the s*it you recommend on here are dangerous and shouldn't be on sale in a first world country.

Doubt it. I've had a set and rwo people I know have a set (both bought for going to the continent) but that's it.

"Fred"

Fred ("Fred"

PCPaul (PCPaul ) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Of course they didn't. You were expecting them to suddenly fail to grip, so no surprise.

Fred ("Fred"

What do you do when it's 7.5 degrees? :)

The roads are terrible at the moment even with decent tyres. I had thought my clutch was slipping a bit on the G but apparently it's just spinning up the wheels at 80.

Yes. I said that, didn't I? I'm sure I said that, in the bit you snipped...

Anyway, they never suddenly 'failed to grip'. There was never a point where they showed any sign of grip.

In my opinion, all this discussion about winter tyres is just a load of rubbish. I've been driving since 1961, first in a Mini followed by a Ford Anglia, both fitted with crossply tyres. Since then I have driven many

In the late eighties, I drove up to Aberdeen during a very bad winter in my tranny without incident and the roads were down to single track with the snow about 6 feet high on both sides, all without the aid of winter tyres or chains.

I've never even contemplated fitting winter tyres (what a hassle that would be on a cold day) and only remember one incident where I skidded and turned

No tyres will help very much if you hit black ice. Traction control may help a little but I always found cadence braking almost as effective.

Terry D.

Personally? I use winter tyres on one side and summer tyres on the other. Best of both worlds IME.

I never mix crossplies and radials on the same axle though.

Borrow a Passat 2.0 TDI in pavement grey: it's so good it doesn't need decent tyres.

Pass. The rule of thumb I'll work to is "November to April, winters, otherwise, all weather." Or something. Then fudge it around when stuff needs replacement.

That's up to you.

You miss the point about cold weather tyres.

They're cold weather tyres. And you fit them in say November and take them off in April.

Wrong.

You need to do a bit of research into the benefit of cold weather tyres, rather than, "I've been driving for 46 years and I've never needed them so they must be rubbish." That way you'd not make the incorrect assumptions you make above.

You are right, DervMan. I read from a Canadian government tyre safety campaign article that 7ºC was the temperature when the road holding characteristic of standard tyres changed over; specifically it also stated unequivocally that winter tyres remained stable for a much lower temperature. The URL unfortunately has now been lost.

They are called cold weather tyres, but it seam's that no one use's them on this group.

Thanks for your reply.