Winter tyre users: Do you use more extreme summer tyres?
Poll: Winter tyre users: Do you use more extreme summer tyres?
Total Members Polled: 72
Discussion
Hello.
I accidentally got in to using winter tyres because I was given a set. The car they fitted was my track MX5, which at the time was on A048 cut slicks (rubbish in winter, obviously, but also never actually immobile unless the snow got really deep).
So for a couple of years my tyre routine on that car was sticky cut slicks in the summer and winter tyres in the winter. My other cars just used normal tyres (or normal "summer" tyres) like T1Rs all year round, like normal people do.
So, winter tyre users, do you use extreme summer tyres too?
Or do you just use normal summer tyres in summer?
Or do you use normal tyres in summer (I'm not really sure which tyres count as "summer" tyres, but other people seem to)?
Or do you use winters in winter, some kind of wet weather tyre for spring/autumn and extreme summer tyres (because you don't compromise on tyres - they are the only bit in contact with the road you know*)?
Or do you leave winters on all year (lazy, but seems to work)?
Or the other pole options?
If you run several cars just use the one you drive in winter.
It makes sense to have a track car set up for summer and use something else in winter, but I use winters on my track car because it's already crash damaged, has a snow-friendly welded diff and a roll cage.
Vote now, ignorance is bliss and with enough data we can win the war on bliss.
No one likes happiness.
* I hate that phrase, stating the obvious and then expecting a round of applause for it.
I accidentally got in to using winter tyres because I was given a set. The car they fitted was my track MX5, which at the time was on A048 cut slicks (rubbish in winter, obviously, but also never actually immobile unless the snow got really deep).
So for a couple of years my tyre routine on that car was sticky cut slicks in the summer and winter tyres in the winter. My other cars just used normal tyres (or normal "summer" tyres) like T1Rs all year round, like normal people do.
So, winter tyre users, do you use extreme summer tyres too?
Or do you just use normal summer tyres in summer?
Or do you use normal tyres in summer (I'm not really sure which tyres count as "summer" tyres, but other people seem to)?
Or do you use winters in winter, some kind of wet weather tyre for spring/autumn and extreme summer tyres (because you don't compromise on tyres - they are the only bit in contact with the road you know*)?
Or do you leave winters on all year (lazy, but seems to work)?
Or the other pole options?
If you run several cars just use the one you drive in winter.
It makes sense to have a track car set up for summer and use something else in winter, but I use winters on my track car because it's already crash damaged, has a snow-friendly welded diff and a roll cage.
Vote now, ignorance is bliss and with enough data we can win the war on bliss.
No one likes happiness.
* I hate that phrase, stating the obvious and then expecting a round of applause for it.
On the V12V, I use the standard P-Zero Corsa System tyres in summer and slightly narrower SottoZeros in winter. It's mid-October and I can already feel decreased grip levels on the morning drive to work.
On the X5, it's mad, huge Bridgestone Duellers for summer and Conti 4x4 WinterContacts on a smaller, narrower wheel for winter.
edited to remove a typo
On the X5, it's mad, huge Bridgestone Duellers for summer and Conti 4x4 WinterContacts on a smaller, narrower wheel for winter.
edited to remove a typo
Edited by Zod on Thursday 11th October 11:36
doogz said:
There's no option for just using a more suitable car.
I use M&S tyres in winter, and summer tyres in summer. But that's because the 4x4 has M&S tyres, and the poof chariot has summer tyres.
Sorry, I got carried away with providing poll options for the people who hate useable data.I use M&S tyres in winter, and summer tyres in summer. But that's because the 4x4 has M&S tyres, and the poof chariot has summer tyres.
If the 4x4 has M&S (oooh, posh) tyres on it all year round then click the winters all year option, and we can have a pedant tell us the difference between M+S tyres and "proper" winters (I can PM a chap on MX5OC who would be perfect for this).
If your poof chariot is a summer only car you earn extra poof points as a result. Save up enough and you get a motorcycle and a jacket with tassles.
doogz said:
I found the Duellers to be utterly crap in pretty much every possible set of weather conditions.
Using some Yoko Geolander A/T things just now. Not the most refined tyre, but then I don't have a very refined 4x4. Using them all year round, and they've been great so far, including the snow last winter.
The Duellers are fine in the dry and utterly awful in anything else. They are a joke on mud.Using some Yoko Geolander A/T things just now. Not the most refined tyre, but then I don't have a very refined 4x4. Using them all year round, and they've been great so far, including the snow last winter.
doogz said:
Zod said:
The Duellers are fine in the dry and utterly awful in anything else. They are a joke on mud.
I didn't think they were bad in the dry, mine weren't that low on tread when I replaced them, but the Yokos I replaced them with, whilst much 'chunkier' seemed better. I have a bad habit of doing silly things in my 4x4. it wasn't really built for drifting in the dry. but the Yokos are much more progressive, although perhaps not quite as good in terms of overall peak grip. Not much in it though.Dire in the wet though. Never got stuck in the snow with them, but last year with the Yokos, only actually needed to stuck it in 4 one time, left it in 2 the rest of the time.
I use cheap "normal" tyres. If I need to get somewhere and it's really snowy, wherever I need to get to is probably closed. If I need to get somewhere in an emergency, there are enough friendly neighbours with 4x4s. In the event of a zombie apocalypse, again, 4x4 owners are all nearby.
kambites said:
What's the difference between "normal" tyres and "summer" tyres. I always though normal was just a term used to mean summer ones? I don't think I've ever seen someone use the terms differently.
By normal I supposed CaptM to mean 'All-season'. There are three basic types of tyre, winter, all-season and summer. Most tyres are all-season. The difference is in the rubber compound, I know winters have more silica in them, I guess summers have less?Mud&Snow (M&S) badged tyres are usually all-season compound.
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