Winter tyres all year round?

[Liquid Knight]

Here's a serious accident waiting to happen.....





...spiked ice tyres in May!

[300bhp/ton]

Aren't studded tyres illegal for road use in the UK anyway?

[Liquid Knight]

You can use fog lights in broad daylight so ice tyres in Summer should be fine.
















(Sorry weird mood today)

[ewenm]

"Winter tyres" DOES NOT MEAN "studded/spiked tyres".

[thinfourth2]

I run winter tyres all year round as i have yet to get stuck because of too much sun

[snotrag]

thinfourth2 said:

I run winter tyres all year round as i have yet to get stuck because of too much sun

I actually have my winter tyres fitted at the moment, because my 'nice' wheels are off for paint. I havent' died yet...

[durbster]

I've driven a car with a spiked tyre on a dry road.

After about 20 miles on a motorway it exploded at high speed, with a massive bang and a force that took a good chunk of the wheel arch with it.

I wouldn't recommend it.

[G0ldfysh]

winter tyres still on my shed, will stay there too. Not studded just better cold condition rubber

[Bluebarge]

durbster said:

I've driven a car with a spiked tyre on a dry road.

After about 20 miles on a motorway it exploded at high speed, with a massive bang and a force that took a good chunk of the wheel arch with it.

I wouldn't recommend it.

You're not supposed to exceed 90kph on a studded tyre on a dry road. Which may explain what happened.

[MattOz]

Was in St.Tropez last summer and a number of cars were still on winter tyres. Don't believe it has any detrimental effect apart from wearing them out a little quicker. Would undoubtedly be better on greasy wet roads I'd expect.

[Caulkhead]

thinfourth2 said:

I run winter tyres all year round as i have yet to get stuck because of too much sun

Though that's largely because you live within the arctic circle!

I once turned a set of full winters on a Chrysler Voyager we were using in Austria into jelly by running them at 100mph in 30 degrees C along the A8 in the South of France seven up for two hours. You could move the tread blocks around by hand!

[durbster]

Bluebarge said:

You're not supposed to exceed 90kph on a studded tyre on a dry road. Which may explain what happened.

I'm well aware of this now.

[Hugo a Gogo]

there was snow in the Harz mountains last weekend here in Germany, while the rest of the country had 28°c

[MX5guy]

I still have my winter tyres (non-stud) on the car at the moment. Just waiting for the Toyo T1Rs to arrive. Need to find somewhere that I can finish the winters off when I get the others, as I'm not using them again next year.

[nouze]

Winter tyres above 7 degs are lethal. I presume we need both winter and summer tyres legislation.

[NHK244V]

I use winter tyres all summer and summer tyres all winter (Very very cheap makes of course) in the vain hope some sad cooont on here will spot me at some traffic lights and make me famouse with a pic and a rant.
No-one has yet despite my continuas oppo locking and nun killing/bus stop plow throughs, so unfair, some peeps just buy what they can afford and get a thread on here why not ME!!!!

[NHK244V]

durbster said:

I'm well aware of this now.

so what you ment to say was i wouldn't recomend driving faster than the safe limit of what ever tyres you have on the car,slash, do some research before risking everyone elses lives and then blaming the tyres ?

[liquidken]

nouze said:

Winter tyres above 7 degs are lethal.

I wouldn't go that far - unless you got some of the questionable chinese import tyres that are so popular in the UK.

For those that enjoy driving hard, cold weather tyres certainly start to diminish once you're in double figures. I changed mine over in early February as I noticed they were struggling under braking.
Having said that, if you're happy to just tootle about, you can leave them on all year round.

[soad]

thinfourth2 said:

I run winter tyres all year round as i have yet to get stuck because of too much sun

[rob.e]

Is that a spiked tyre? I don't think so.

Looks like a winter tyre alright, but with a few bits of gravel stuck in the treads..