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Bought an Abarth 595 Comp in January and 17,000 miles later it needs a pair of front tyres.
We live down a steep woodland track and having seen at first how effective winter tyres are, I am thinking about replacing the fronts with a pair on Conti Winter Contacts.
The question is - is it ok to run winters on the fronts and P Zero Nero summers on the rear?
We live down a steep woodland track and having seen at first how effective winter tyres are, I am thinking about replacing the fronts with a pair on Conti Winter Contacts.
The question is - is it ok to run winters on the fronts and P Zero Nero summers on the rear?
celestequattro said:
Bought an Abarth 595 Comp in January and 17,000 miles later it needs a pair of front tyres.
We live down a steep woodland track and having seen at first how effective winter tyres are, I am thinking about replacing the fronts with a pair on Conti Winter Contacts.
The question is - is it ok to run winters on the fronts and P Zero Nero summers on the rear?
NoWe live down a steep woodland track and having seen at first how effective winter tyres are, I am thinking about replacing the fronts with a pair on Conti Winter Contacts.
The question is - is it ok to run winters on the fronts and P Zero Nero summers on the rear?
are you good at catching snap lift-off oversteer?
A car shod with winters at one end and summers at the other would be horrible to drive in winter or summer
get some shabby Fiat 500 wheels and fit a set of four winter tyres. Personally, I'd find some steel wheels from a lowly 500 model then have huge fun all winter blatting past far more powerful stuff that thought you were running a 1.2 pop with a 595 bodykit....
A car shod with winters at one end and summers at the other would be horrible to drive in winter or summer
get some shabby Fiat 500 wheels and fit a set of four winter tyres. Personally, I'd find some steel wheels from a lowly 500 model then have huge fun all winter blatting past far more powerful stuff that thought you were running a 1.2 pop with a 595 bodykit....
http://www.mytyres.co.uk/ will supply the winter tyres of your choice already fitted to a set of steel wheels.
DO NOT mix summer and winter on the same car, as advised earlier.
PS It's OK to run the winters all year round, (I've done it on my Panda before), especially if you live somewhere like Wales/Lake District or Scotland. IIRC Vredestein looked at UK weather and decided if you had to fit ONE set of tyres then winters would make more sense.
Remember, 'summer' tyres are the one the manufacturers fit in order to cheat their way through the EU emission test cycle.
DO NOT mix summer and winter on the same car, as advised earlier.
PS It's OK to run the winters all year round, (I've done it on my Panda before), especially if you live somewhere like Wales/Lake District or Scotland. IIRC Vredestein looked at UK weather and decided if you had to fit ONE set of tyres then winters would make more sense.
Remember, 'summer' tyres are the one the manufacturers fit in order to cheat their way through the EU emission test cycle.
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