Winter tyres: With a difference

[rf065]

I'm intrigued as to how having a 4WD vehicle, even with winter tyres can stop another car from sliding into you. Does it come with a built in force field around it?

You cannot ever stop another vehicle sliding into you no matter what tyres you use, but in 11 years of winter tyre use it has never happened to me and that is using the car every single day of the year regardless of weather. You can however take avoiding action on winter tyres while those on summer tyres are merely passengers in a car with zero grip, I'd rather have control of my car and a chance to avoid those that don't.

Russ

 

[Andav]

It can't stop anything but it's a lot cheaper to repair an old shed than a 17 plate E63s

The only downside is, you end up with an expensive depreciating ornament for the winter months.
You pay a lot of money for a car, why lay it up and not use it?

It’s a bit like not sleeping with your girlfriend so you keep her nice for the next guy

 

[daveenty]

The only downside is, you end up with an expensive depreciating ornament for the winter months.
You pay a lot of money for a car, why lay it up and not use it?

It's not being laid up, just not being used in really bad weather which, to me at least, seems sensible. It will be used on fine clear days, just not the dirty horrible ones which we seem to have a lot of at the moment. Also a big estate is pretty handy for tip runs and pottering about in to save taking the white one out. Oh, and I'm used to depreciation. I had a Jag.

It’s a bit like not sleeping with your girlfriend so you keep her nice for the next guy

Alex (Silver E55) used to have that as his sig file.

 

[CaptainChaos]

I'm intrigued as to how having a 4WD vehicle, even with winter tyres can stop another car from sliding into you. Does it come with a built in force field around it?

What a bizarre post!

 

[PenelopePitstop]

We had 1/2 inch of snow a couple of days ago and the SLC was booked into the dealers for a recall, our driveway & street are both on slight inclines, after taking the car out of the garage just the slightest touch of brake had the fronts locking up and it was impossible to reverse back onto the driveway and thats a new car with 2000 miles on the clock so the tyre tread is still as new but has absolutely zero grip in snow.
Russ

SLK is the same. Reversing was ok but when moving forward it was going sideways. 1cm of snow couple of years ago and I had to rent Golf for a day. Different story with winter tyres but still not great in deep snow.

 

[Andav]

It's not being laid up, just not being used in really bad weather which, to me at least, seems sensible. It will be used on fine clear days, just not the dirty horrible ones which we seem to have a lot of at the moment. Also a big estate is pretty handy for tip runs and pottering about in to save taking the white one out. Oh, and I'm used to depreciation. I had a Jag.



Alex (Silver E55) used to have that as his sig file.

Each to their own I guess and I get that it’s handy for the ‘tip run’ I use my wife’s Evoque for that lol.

If you think the Jags were bad, My last car was a 6 Series, jeez that was eye watering depreciation

 

[fabes]

No force field young Jedi, but I have been able to avoid an out of control (but slow moving) car in snow when on winters. Without, I believe I would have been slid into, in slow motion....
Speeding car, no more chance than in summer, but they saved me in a hire car in Poland

Also, after crashing my old Merc into someone parked car 300 yards from my house, and it turns out I knew them, winters now go on my MBs

 

[Deleted member 37751]

You’ve done the right thing in my eyes Dave, a winter snotter is the way forward!

 

[Cymruambyth]

[QUOTE="CaptainChaos, post: 2542437, member: 122698" That’s why you see so many high performance SUVs struggling - because they have high performance road summer tyres on them. 4 x 0 grip = 0 grip.[/QUOTE]

I bet that`ll be me this winter......390bhp 4x4 but on normal summer tyres

 

[daveenty]

Well, my next post on here was supposed to be a quick review of the Jeep which was allegedly arriving on Wednesday. I got a message on Tuesday late afternoon stating that the driver had a problem so it would be Thursday instead. No problem really as it wasn't going to get taxed till today anyway.

Another message yesterday stating that they had issues with the car affecting the idle and mixture, by which stage I'm getting a bit nervous as to what I'm getting into. Eventually managed to speak with the guy last night and he's agreed to refund the deposit so panic over. Apart from the fact this leaves me without a car.

As it happens, last Friday I went to look at a Nissan X-Trail which, although a bit dearer than the Jeep, ticked al the boxes and comes with a full MOT, 12 month warranty and a new set of winter tyres on it. I phoned about it yesterday to see if it was still available and will be picking it up in the morning hopefully.

Oh, and it's a 2.5 petrol so none of the intercooler problems associated with the early diesel models. Pictures when it arrives all being well...

 

[CaptainChaos]

Sounds like you might have dodged a bullet there. The Nissan will probably trundle on forever, plus winter tyres too!

 

[Hacker]

Anyone sussed out wheel sizes for a C43 coupe. MB want over £2k for a set of 18" with Contis fitted. I prefer Nokian WRA but cannot work out what 18" alloys will work. Currently have 19" AMG mixed sizes. I was thinking of going 225/45/18 as these are within 1% of the original circumference

 

[CaptainChaos]

Anyone sussed out wheel sizes for a C43 coupe. MB want over £2k for a set of 18" with Contis fitted. I prefer Nokian WRA but cannot work out what 18" alloys will work. Currently have 19" AMG mixed sizes. I was thinking of going 225/45/18 as these are within 1% of the original circumference

If you trawl through this site, you should be able to find the ones which fit your car:
Tires wheels & rims Mercedes-Benz | AMG Brabus Lorinser | Kunzmann Germany

I bought my wheels from them last year, but chose my own tyres (Continental TS860).
I'm a big fan of Nokians too, but the TS860 was topping the reviews and have proved excellent.

 

[Hacker]

Thanks. Had a look but still confused. There were 2 18” options. One being the standard 5 spoke with different front and rear widths. The other was a lot cheaper but same size for front and rear; these were specifically mentioned as not suitable for the C43! Couldn’t understand that especially as these were the wheels suggested by my local MB dealership.

 

[PenelopePitstop]

Just got back from Euro trip, 2800 miles in two weeks (doubled car mileage). My nearly new tyres from Ebay worked as expected and I'm quite happy with the purchase. Seller was called: genuine_tyres

 

[markjay]

Drove 200 miles in Scotland this Christmas.

The rental car was supplied with 'all weather' tyres (they explained that this way they don't have to change tyres every 6 months).

It didn't snow and there was no ice so I couldn't really put the tyres to the test, but the temperature did dip below 7 degrees occasionally and it was reassuring to know that the car won't skid into the nearest ditch as soon as the mercury showed 6 degrees.