Tyres for Disco 4 - winter and summer

[Tazza]

Help and advice required. I'm looking for a set of winter tyres for the Discovery 4. We live up a hill in rural devon and for the past couple of years have had a decent amount of snow, AND it has spent many months at low temps. Planning to buy a set of winter tyres now and all rounders later in there year.

What are recommendations for a set of winter tyres. Michelin Alpin A$ get good reviews but I'm not sure they are good for a Landy. Continental Winter Contact also get good reviews and seem more suitable for a 4X4. Any better ideas? If possible, I'd like them not to wear out in a couple of weeks and not sound like I am in a military vehicle!

As for the summer tyres, to be honest, the standard pirellis have been great, but not that good in mud of which there can be a fair bit round here if (when) we get a wet spell. Is there a good alternative which is great on road (85%+ of the time) but a bit better in gloop. Again, I don't want something that will turn it into a complete truck!

All advice great fully accepted - tyres aren't my specialist subject !

Thanks

[Sarge 4x4]

Both General AT and Pirelli ATR would do what you need but are not Winter tyres, I am guessing you are on 255/55x19, if on 255/50x20 it gets a bit more differcult.

4x4 tyres are my passion, sounds a bit kinky but have 37 years experiance with tyres.

What you need is a sort of "jack of all trades" tyre which I feel the General and Pirelli will do for you.

[BigBazza]

Another massive thumbs up for the Pirelli ATR if you are on 19" rims. Not a winter tyre but an amazing and hard wearing all rounder.

Sarge, i'm on 20" in my Disco 4 and trying to re-create the usefulness of the ATR, how do you rate the Cooper Zeons?

[Tazza]

Thanks for the advice Sarge.

Do you think I'm wasting my time with a set of Winter tyres over the ATR's? If not, what winter tyres would you suggest. (and yes I am on the 19's)

Thanks

[cptsideways]

I think ATR'2s have the snowflake symbol

[Sarge 4x4]

If you are only driving in the UK it's not to much of a problem with the 255/55x19 Pirelli ATR or the General AT, I like the General better and so do most of my customers but if you are going to Europe you may have to use a winter tyre.

I like the Vredestein Wintrac 4 Xtreme's as a winter tyre, very many happy customers.

The 255/50x20 size is a tad more differcult to find a nice tyre that will work well all year round, the Cooper is fine but a little hard for the cold and snowy conditions, you could go for a 275/45x20 General AT, these work quite well, or find a winter tyre.

[grand cherokee]

Sarge 4x4 said:

If you are only driving in the UK it's not to much of a problem with the 255/55x19 Pirelli ATR or the General AT, I like the General better and so do most of my customers but if you are going to Europe you may have to use a winter tyre.

I like the Vredestein Wintrac 4 Xtreme's as a winter tyre, very many happy customers.

The 255/50x20 size is a tad more differcult to find a nice tyre that will work well all year round, the Cooper is fine but a little hard for the cold and snowy conditions, you could go for a 275/45x20 General AT, these work quite well, or find a winter tyre.

have wintrac 4 xtremes on my ffrr - fitted last week on 19" rims

done quite a few tests on 'clean' ice/water on ice etc etc

simply stunning

then went offroad on frozen grass and thick mud

job done

just fitting vred snowtrac 3's to fathers ford focus

as best as i know Tyremen in hull are one of the few dealers with vreds in stock at non over inflated prices and £10 delivery for 4no ffrr tyres

[macar]

Fitted a set of Conti Cross Contact to our Disco 4 a couple of weeks ago, seems to be a lot better braking in the cold/wet. Had no snow yet, but based on the write ups then should be better than the Pirelli's. When the snow does come it will be interesting to see how the road biased Conti's perform against my Defender's
Cooper ST's

[David911RSR]

We have 20" wheels on our Disco 4 specified when new. I had a spare set of 19's from our disco 3 and decoded to opt for Wintrac Extreme. I purchased them from Tyremen for 165 quid each including vat and delivery. No had any bad weather to pass comment on their performance however, they have plenty of grip in normal conditions.

[Sarge 4x4]

Wintrac 4 Xtreme's are very good and work well for the rest of the year, best to change though.

[mattdaniels]

THe gf has a set of Pirelli Scorpion ATR's on her D3 G4 and has been very impressed with them. The OEM-fit Wrangler MTRs are better off road / in the slush but run out of grip very quickly on road in greasy conditions and are bloomin noisy too.

[Tazza]

Thanks to everyone for the replies. I'll see how the finances go after Christmas and either just go for the ATR's, or if weather goes s***e and I'm not broke, might go for a set of the Vredsteins now and ATR's later in the year.