Snow Socks?

[GreigR]

Hello

I cannot seem to find any winter tyres in 205/45/17. Does anyone use snow socks? The only thing that puts me off them is having to stop as soon as you hit a clear road then back again once one snow. I take it driving on a clear or slushy road ruins them?

[CraigyMc]

GreigR said:

Hello
I cannot seem to find any winter tyres in 205/45/17. Does anyone use snow socks? The only thing that puts me off them is having to stop as soon as you hit a clear road then back again once one snow. I take it driving on a clear or slushy road ruins them?

I was reading up on these earlier today. Some reviewers said runinng over 30mph or on clear tarmac for more than a few miles ripped them. Ive not personally tried them at all.

Incidentally, your wheel/tyre size is very odd, but even so here's a tyre that's in stock - http://ssl.delti.com/cgi-bin/rshop.pl?details=Orde...

Are you sure you're not running slightly different sized tyres? 225/45/17's are FAR more common... (75 hits versus one for your shape/size)

C

[plasticpig]

Vredestein do 205/45/17 Wintrac Extremes. They also do all season Quartrac 3s in that size.

[Tea Pot One]

Snow socks seem to work ... but getting them on things like M Sport BMW wheels is a bit on the difficult side !

You need to be able to get your hands over and behind the top of the wheel to fit them .... not that easy on sporty cars ...

[V88Dicky]

We've currently got the snowsocks (Autosocks) on the wife's Jag (S-Type V8) and they've been excellent, allowing us to plough on where other cars were getting bogged down. The bigger and lower the profile your wheels are, the more difficult they are to fit, although it only took about ten minutes to fit them to the Jags 245/40/18s.
Just make sure you take them off if you hit dry tarmac. Wet slushy tarmac is ok if you keep below 30.
HTH

[nottyash]

OP I did the exact same as you. I looked for snow tyres that same size for my Prelude and the snow socks come up.
I am not conviced by them, so I think I will use the snow as an excuse to buy a Mitsibishi Shogun for the winter

[christofmccracke]

I have orderd a set will post up the results, they should hopefully be here by the end of the week