School of thought, are cheap winter better than summer tyres

[p1tse]

During our winter periods, cold, wet, occasional snow, ice

Would cheap winter tyres be better than summer

Anyone heard of sunny, rockstone, wanli, fortuna etc?

[snuffle]

I think that I may have seen them on X factor

[CalculatedRisk]

think its very much dependent on the two choices..

how summer'ey are your summer tires? and how crappy are you looking at?

[NiceCupOfTea]

Never skimp on brakes and tyres. Unless you plan on changing your car soon you will not be using any more rubber - 2 sets of tyres will last twice as long. Assuming you run both sets until they are worn out, the only expense is a spare set of wheels (which you can sell).

[poing]

I think the biggest problem with cheap winter tyres is their performance when it's not snowing, which in the UK winter is quite often. I decided to go for decent ones because driving on wet winter roads is far more common. On just snow the cheap winters will likely be better than decent summer tyres.