E30 Zone

What would happen?

I think you could get more grip on dry surface but they will wear faster in summer conditions and will not last much. The difference in summer and winter tiers is that winter ones have more natural rubber in they`re composition.

Yea I do mean for driving in the winter - would you just have massive oversteer from having grip at the back and none at the front?

bpowell555 wrote:Yea I do mean for driving in the winter - would you just have massive oversteer from having grip at the back and none at the front?

You would more likely have understeer having more grip at the back! If im right in thinking winter tyre's will only workwell on snow and it aint like we get alot of that really

Unless they are actual snow tyres I don't think you'll notice a whole lot of difference.

We had a shed load of the stuff last season, and living in the bloody Alps so to speak , I would like to know what very cheap tyres I could fit on the rear,Im not going near a motorway or doing any sort of speed (my 525 does that !) and many moons ago I had a couple of "town and country " remoulds fitted to my MK 2 escort and they were spot on in snow.
Can you still get hold of tyres like these and for how much please ?

Mart.

The person in the next block from me put snow chains on his E46 last winter, i watched him drive off, went to turn the corner but the vehical slid straight into the lamp post.

Morat wrote:Unless they are actual snow tyres I don't think you'll notice a whole lot of difference.

Ive just read "rip off"

Bloody hell !!!

Who did this happen to ?
Tell me it wasnt you ?

Mart.

martauto wrote:

Morat wrote:Unless they are actual snow tyres I don't think you'll notice a whole lot of difference.

Ive just read "rip off"

Bloody hell !!!

Who did this happen to ?
Tell me it wasnt you ?

Mart.

i think you may have missed quoted there

What I'm saying is that you can get winter rated tyres which look like normal tyres but have a slightly softer compound or you can get full on skinny and knobbly road tyres (optionally with studs if you're barking). I doubt you'll notice much difference in handling if you use the winter rated tyres on the back.

As I see it, winter rated tyres are for driving on really cold, but dry roads. I could be wrong but I don't think they're much use in the UK. What you really need is a spare set of bottletops with snowtyres.

I had a Mk 2 cortina gt estate many moons ago and fitted " mud and snow" tyres to some standard 4 inch rims on the rear . In snow it would go almost anywhere it was pointed , the problem was getting it to go where you wanted . Most of the steering was by the throttle and the hand brake stopped you quicker than the foot brake . But the sound of the twin 40s and the rooster tails of snow out the back put a very big smile in my face .

Great you could accelerate but not turn very good and most of your braking force is on the front so stopping would suck to

Id just get a set of 14 inch Greenway Forest Rally tyres for about £80 a set brand new!

martauto wrote:

Morat wrote:Unless they are actual snow tyres I don't think you'll notice a whole lot of difference.

Ive just read "rip off"

Bloody hell !!!

Who did this happen to ?
Tell me it wasnt you ?

Mart.

No it wasn't me! but they're trying to take over no1 spot on Google for the builder's name... and one good way to help with that is provide lots of links to their site

town325i wrote:

bpowell555 wrote:Yea I do mean for driving in the winter - would you just have massive oversteer from having grip at the back and none at the front?

You would more likely have understeer having more grip at the back! If im right in thinking winter tyre's will only workwell on snow and it aint like we get alot of that really

Winter tyres work well in the cold, not just snow. Summer tyres are too hard in cold weather, plus less tread.

Admittedly there is a bit of snow here, but they work in the cold too honest

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