winter tyres on mx5

[sawman]

ironictwist said:

Munter said:

ironictwist said:

Munter said:

71notout said:

Where are you guys geting your Nokians from?

And are you keeping 195/50/15 or going for slightly slimmer, higher sidewall ratio?

I put the order in with mytyres. I've gone for a 175/65 14 as per the manual recommendation for "snow tyres". Plus there's a lot more choice in that size than in 185/60 14.

The MX5 manual suggests 175/65/14? :O

No really it does!

Here ya go from my MK1 manual.

I had no clue at all! Thanks for that Munter...I'm now pondering as to whether I should go for the recommended size in the manual, or go for the same size tyres that I already have.

Hmmm?! What to do!

as far as i understand, winter tyres tend to worn a little narrower than summer tyres, certainly thats wha the canadians do, heres a link. apparently you can swap a 235 summer tyre for a 195 winter
linky

[GravelBen]

As said winter tyres should be narrower to cut through snow, mud, standing water etc better - though the standard 185 14" isn't exactly wide anyway.

[iguana]

Linglong Radial 650 Winter Hero 185/60/14

£31 each delivered!

Gotta get 'em just for the name

[GravelBen]

Linglong they're generally considered in the same ditchfinder category as Wanli and Triangle!

[Salgar]

I have a logistics question...

Do people get these tires delivered to their homes? In which case how do you get them fitted?

[matt21]

So you guys who bought the stty branded winter tyres last year...how did they do?

I'm seriously tempted!

[Salgar]

They caused my car to overheat and proceeded to warp the head and destroy the engine and so I sold it.

Then again this could have nothing to do with tyres. Or winter.

[Munter]

Salgar said:

They caused my car to overheat and proceeded to warp the head and destroy the engine and so I sold it.

Then again this could have nothing to do with tyres. Or winter.

Definitely the tyres!

If you didn't have the tyres on, you would not have been driving the car, and thus would not have overheated the engine.

(On a more serious note, if snow blocks the hole in the spoiler, a car could overheat. It is known for blocked rad grills to overheat cars.)

[Gizmo!]

Salgar said:

They caused my car to overheat and proceeded to warp the head and destroy the engine and so I sold it.

Then again this could have nothing to do with tyres. Or winter.

My winter tyres caused its cambelt to go a while back, and for me to ignore the car for most of the summer resulting in some very rusty brakes that I'm currently hoping will fix themselves.

Before all that however, they got me to the train station on the day when buses simply didn't exist in London, and drove across sheet ice to get to a friend's house on Boxing Day last year. Quite impressed really. And when I took them for a thrash to Goodwood for the Sunday Service a while back they were better than the old Bridgestones...

Nankang SV2.