Ling Long Winter tyres, any good ?

[Nigel Worc's]

Anyone have experience of these ?

http://www.tyreleader.co.uk/car-tyres/ling-long/gr...

The label suggests they are as good as anything else (It's the wet rating on winter tyres that concerns me the most).

[Nigel Worc's]

They are cheap enough for me to be able to afford having a set on standby for any winter spells we have (I have spare wheels).

I think I'm going to order them, got to be worth a punt in my opinion.

[Nigel Worc's]

TheAngryDog said:

Goodyear have rated the tyre as an E for wet grip. Much of winter is wet......

I noticed that, the lingy longy one is a C.

Most of the winter tyres seem to have poor ratings in the wet.

[Nigel Worc's]

Captain Muppet said:

I had a set of Linglong winters on my MX5. Compared to other winter tyres I've had (Pirelli, Bridgestone and Toyo) they seemed as good as anything else in snow, about average in the dry, and normally fine in the wet. However occasionally they would be terrible in the wet.

Dunno if it was an extreme reaction to diesel or something, but for a while both my and the Mrs' cars had the same tyres and we'd both find them terrible to drive on the same road home (her in her Civic, me in the MX5), but only in a wet, when it wasn't cold, but not all the time. I didn't do a back to back test with other winters on the same route on the same day, so I can't make any conclusions.

She still has them, wants them fitted this weekend because she hugely prefers them to her summer tyres in winter. But she is only a girl, albeit a girl who is able to spot when it's time to swap tyres just by how her car reacts.

I've got some Vredsteins to try this year, on my Elise. Got the rears for free, so I expect them to be terrible because of market forces.

Many thanks