V70 tyres

I would still recommend P6000's. - I wouldnt have anything else on my vehicles, one of which is a 70 series Volvo.

Tim. .

We do mostly urban driving in inner London with lots of speed bumps and poor roads - I'm wondering if there may be more robust tyres for this sort of thing.

E.

Stick with 6000's - they're fine. They're no more likely to puncture than any other tyre - you've just been unlucky - or careless. Valve problems obviously have nothing to do with the type of tyre fitted - the valve is a totally separate item!

I totally disagree! Get rid of the Pirellis. Always when I bought an

850 or a V70 (had 5 in total so far) I insisted that the original Pirellis were changed to Michelins. Pirellis are never round and very difficult to balance. In addition they live hardly 50 % of a Michelin.

060215120720 HTH, Joerg (from Switzerland)

P.S.: My wife hast the same tyres on her Renault but a heavy duty version which has only a VR-rating - which should be sufficient for the UK and the top speed for most of the V70s. Ask for them if you thin you would need them.

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Where the Michelin is included in the tests published it really rates best for wear. But looses points on wet surface so it does not make it into the top category.

It is often the case that tyres which are good for wear are not very good for grip - particularly in the wet.

The P6000 seems to be a good 'all round' tyre - which is possibly why Volvo fit them as original equipment.

In the US the '01 V70 XC came with Pirelli Scorpion S/T 215/65R16. It is a great tire. I have used Pirelli's in the past and even though they had good traction, they didn't last. The Scorpions last so well that I have used the exclusively for replacement tires also. They have good wet and dry traction and good wear characteristics and good speed performance. A great tire.

Those tyres are cheaper here in the UK than the P6000s - they cost about £75 a tyre (which is now almost $150...)

E.

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The Pirelli Scorpion is not a "summer" tire, it is listed as an "all year" tire, i.e. snow grip better than a usual summer tire but its properties on dry warm surfaces must be worse than a top summer tire.

We don't have summer tires in the US. We have regular, all-weather and snow tires. The Scorpions are all-weather.

But "all year" tires are much better when it rains in the summer. Dry performance varies only slightly from tire to tire, but wet performance varies greatly, so only consider wet performance. The Scorpions have great rain performance, even toward the end of the tread life. I consider hydroplaning avoidance my first concern when buying new tires. Hydroplaning can be deadly.

Probably the equivalents are: regular = what we call in German "summer" tires (Sommerreifen) All weather = "all year" (Ganzjahresreifen) snow = "winter" tires. (Winterreifen)

viktor roskakori schrieb:

I strongly suggest to use specialist tyres for each season i.e. summer and winter. All weather tyres are always a compromise. It is proven wrong that All Weather-Tyres have the better aquaplaning-properties than summer(regular)-tyres. And the performance during the wet and snowy season of specialist tyres with softer rubber with a high content of Kieselsäure (I don't know the english expression for it) is ways beyond All Weather-Tyres. The draw back is a reduced speed rating (which is not relly important given the speed limits).

It is a fact that in Hitech-Markets (as far as cars are concerned) All Weather-Tyres are not accepted because of their mediocre performance. In Europe the market share is close to zero on passenger vehicles.

Joerg

Eastender said he lives in the UK. Unless he lives in the Highlands of Scotland, or perhaps in the Pennines, there is rarely more than a few days of snow each winter. So special winter tyres are not really needed, imho.

I have a V70 AWD, fitted with P6000s. They have been fine so far, and when the time comes I shall probably replace them with the same.

Bill

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Yes indeed, in London, although amazingly we did have snow here the other day - the first I can recall for years. As for the P6000s, I'm still tempted to get something else - was at air line this evening and one of the rear tyres was down to 12psi and one of the fronts at 18psi, the other rear at 25psi and only one front at 29psi (I had them all up to 29psi a week and a half ago). I've had three of these tyres off and two small punctures fixed and three new valves and they've plenty of tread left but I'm losing my patience now.

E.

It depends more on the individual tire than on the class of tire. Some "summer tires" have horrible aquaplaning properties and some have excellent. Same goes for "winter tires" and "all year" tires. Driving is always a compromise. Most winter days are sunny and dry. Some summer days are wet and slippery. That is why an compromise tire is best. It is always ready. When snow is on the ground, then a "winter tire" makes sense, and in Anchorage Alaska, that is just about all winter. But here in PA it is seldom. We usually have salt on the ground, not snow.

Bill schrieb:

Yes they are: Below 8°C summer rubber gets very hard and has no grip anymore. Snow Tyres are not only a question of snow, they are much better in wet conditions and low temps.

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Regardless of which type of tires one uses, maybe the most important thing as usual is: not to turn off the program brain.exe while driving under nonoptimal weather and road conditions. Having the best summer or winter tire under your ass shouldn´t lure you into a false safety feeling.

Gee, that is 46°F. It gets colder than that in the American West at night on the hottest days of summer. In fact in Hell's Canyon, between Oregon and Idaho, I saw it get up to nearly 120°F (49°C) in the day and our water bags froze solid at night. That is not unusual in the "big sky" country. So I guess you wouldn't use summer tires at all here. We do and we don't have any problems. Maybe our tires are a little more accommodating that yours. Try some American "summer" tires, they do have grip below 8°C. If they didn't we couldn't drive to the top of Pike's Peak (14,110 feet) or to the top of Mauna Kea (13,796 feet) without sliding off the roads that don't have guard rails. So our summer tires must have some grip, in fact they have a lot of grip below

8°C. By the way if you do drive to the top of Pike's Peak or Mauna Kea, take a coat. It is unbelievably cold up there on the hottest days of summer and the wind almost blows you over. For example on July 12, 2006, on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the temperature was 2C and winds were 40 mph. Pikes Peak it is even colder.