Porsche All season tyres

[bananarob]

Driving to Morzine in the French Alps this coming Christmas. My Macan GTS is fitted with all season tyres on 20inch wheels. My guess is that the fitted tyres are fine in this country but not that great in snow. I don’t plan to do much driving whilst in Morzine.

My dilemma is whether to just buy snow chains, Porsche don’t make chains for 20inch but there are options on the market (about £600)
Another option is to fit winter tyres, Pirelli make some and buy the relevant chains (£1800)
Final option is to buy another set of wheels (cheapest option is the 19inch turbo wheels as the GTS won’t take the 18s) and then the Porsche chains (£3000 approx).

Thoughts?

[psi310398]

I regularly drive a Panamera S in the Alps without the need for snow chains. The winter tyres tyres I use are ContiVikingContact 6s. Never yet had a brown trouser moment.

[footsoldier]

You won't need chains on proper winter tyres with 4WD, (I've driven round the Alps in all sorts of conditions over last few years, and don't bother packing chains now), but can't be so sure on the all-seasons.
Either buy the chains or buy the winters, no need to do both.

I always go for winters as there's no hassle taking chains on and off. My wife's Macan was kitted out in them last year for Scotland and worked very well in the snow we had.

Edited by footsoldier on Saturday 21st October 11:59

[Cheib]

It's totally dependent on conditions....I was in Verbier over Christmas two seasons ago, there was a big snow storm that hit during the day and the local roads were utter chaos (must have seen twenty cars that had been in some kind of "off") late afternoon when there was maybe six inches of fresh snow. That was generally locals who should know how to handle cars in those conditions and all with snow tyres. The only vehicles that could cope with it were the buses which all had chains fitted.

Depends on the country but certainly in Switzerland they can make the use of chains mandatory on certain roads if the conditions are bad enough...police won't let you up the mountain without them on.

In many countries it's a legal requirement to carry them

https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/travel/driving-abroad/...