Winter tyres/chains/studs/stay-at-home

[Dibs-h]

PaulM - you might get your wish tomorrow according to the forecast?

I tried to but some Rock Salt today without success - do any of the Sheds sell it?

Rod

Your local Wickes is probably the most likely one. Although of it has snowed - they'll have no doubt sold out.

Dibs

 

[paulm]

PaulM - you might get your wish tomorrow according to the forecast?

I tried to but some Rock Salt today without success - do any of the Sheds sell it?

Rod

Might well do Rod

Only thing is the jeep is getting picked up tomorrow and will be off the road for a week or so getting some body work repairs done after a bit of a tussle with a council refuse truck Not my fault and all covered by insurance though and I am supposed to get a hire 4x4 of some description for the duration so will see what turns up.

We picked up a few bags of salt/grit stuff from the local coal merchants last week, don't know if you have something similar close by ? Was a bit of a rip-off though to be honest, as you might expect when buying something at a time of peak demand I guess :lol:

Cheers, Paul

 

[RogerS]

PaulM - you might get your wish tomorrow according to the forecast?

I tried to but some Rock Salt today without success - do any of the Sheds sell it?

Rod

Your local Wickes is probably the most likely one. Although of it has snowed - they'll have no doubt sold out.

Dibs

My local focus does at £16 a smallish bag

 

[Dibs-h]

My local focus does at £16 a smallish bag

I've still got 4 or 5 large bags from last year - so not terribly bothered. Wickes usually sell bags the same size as most builders merchants sell river sand in, <£5 each. Although, now that the winter tyres have turned up and will be fitted this evening, even less bothered. :lol:

Dibs

 

[RogerS]

...... Although, now that the winter tyres have turned up and will be fitted this evening, even less bothered. :lol:

Dibs

Yes, you guys do 'do' snow quite well up there. I remember coming down off that exit from the M62 IIRC and saw that permanent sign with lights against which roads were blocked with snow!

 

[goldeneyedmonkey]

Winter tyres are in short supply it seems, 400% increase in sales on last year and apparently they're putting insurance premiums UP for some people!

See here @ AutoExpress.

Cheers_Dan.

 

[RogerS]

That's absolutely typical of those money-grabbing financial shites.

EDIT: How can they claim that you have 'modified' your vehicle by fitting winter tyres? By extrapolation that means that if you fit any other make of tyre to that which came with the vehicle or even any other type within the same brand then you can be said to have 'modified' your vehicle.

And what is supposed to happen when the tyre manufacturer stops making the original 'fit'?

 

[Dibs-h]

Got mine fitted yesterday evening and tootled into work this morning even going along snowed in streets that I would have given a wide berth before.

Stopping - as long as you drive to the conditions, no slipping or skidding, so very impressed.

As for telling the insurance companies - kiss my @rse they can!

Dibs

 

[Ironballs]

Agree, don't plan on telling my insurance company as I don't think they need to know. Like you I took all the back roads and short cuts to avoid the queues, had great fun overtaking all the cars slipping up the hill coming out of Harehills

 

[oddsocks]

Have a look in the car manual - most list a winter tyre option (it would be as M+S = Mud and Snow). My wife's BMW has that listed and we just bought the correct size Nokians and fitted them to the original 17" alloys. In the summer I had already informed the insurance company that I was swapping to 18" alloys and tyres and there was no change in premium as long I was within the ranges listed as options in the manual (and for the BMW520 that covers 16" up to 19" with M+S at 17")

I bought them from pneu online in October -they ship in from Holland to a local independent garage and took about 4 days to arrive

Dave

 

[Ironballs]

You're right Dave, as long as you buy tyres with the correct speed ratings and correct diameters if you muck about with smaller rims and deeper profiles then you're fine. Some good online circumference % calculators if you do go down that route, always worth considering if you can get smaller rims and you're struggling to get tyres in your normal aspect ratio

 

[dickm]

Sorry to resurrect this thread again, but I had an amusing and enlightening experience today; went to the local country park to walk off too much food, and discovered that off the main road, the plough hadn't been through and there was a good 8-10" of lying snow, more or less undriven. Except for the big Audi Allroad that was ahead of me, with all four wheels spinning wildly. A group of us pushed him out of the worst of it, and I noticed that the car behind me was spinning wheels too. Drove the Golf steadily forward, with the chin spoiler acting as a snowplough, and didn't have a moment's wheelspin. Suggests that winter tyres (Falkens on the front, slightly more worn Vredesteins on the back) are a better bet than 4wd and summer tyres!

 

[paulm]

Except for the big Audi Allroad ...... Suggests that winter tyres (Falkens on the front, slightly more worn Vredesteins on the back) are a better bet than 4wd and summer tyres!

That's not a proper 4wd though Dick, just a mumsmobile for the school run :wink:

Cheers, Paul (hoping for some more snow down south to play in :mrgreen: :lol: ) :ho2 :deer

 

[Ironballs]

You're right Dick, though the woman in the Frontera I overtook last year because she was driving in the snow too slowly didn't agree. Well, I assume she didn't agree judging by the nob-head gestures and mouthed obscenities

 

[RogerS]

Had enough of snow now. Bored. Too cold. Need sun. Need lots of sun .....

In my dreams.....sigh...