snow tyres

Tommo wrote: Bfgoodrich AT's any day,
For road, off road, snow, ice, and looks, with white writing, it looks good

And they are superb for wear, after 3 years of use, every single day, I've still got 8mm backs and 10mm
On the front tyres
Which is probably more than a road tyre from new

Do you run 205s? How much did a set of them set you back?

AT tires are useless in ice and snow!
Nokian Suv 8 or suv 7 is the best winter tire

Greetings from northern Norway

Mescort wrote: AT tires are useless in ice and snow!
Nokian Suv 8 or suv 7 is the best winter tire

Greetings from northern Norway

We cannot use studded tyres in the UK, just winter tyres without studs fitted.

Mitchelin Latitude alpin get good reviews for road use.

I have a set on mine, no idea if they do anything as Global Warming means we didn't have a flake of snow last winter.

i run hankook dynapro atm rf10. these do have good user reviews in snow. i read hundreds of tyre reviews before settling on these.
www.camskill.co.uk/m26b0s243p115385/Hank...s%3A_3_Noise%3A_73dB

How much time are you likely to be driving on snow? The Grandtrek and Hankook tyres are both rated F for wet grip. If you expect to drive a lot more in rain they may not brake as well as you hope and roundabouts could be interesting. I went for Yokohama Geolandar AT as they are rated 'C' for wet grip.

National tyres website says...

"Tyres are rated A – G; A being the shortest braking distances in the wet, G being the longest braking distance in the wet.
The difference in each category can mean an extra one to two car lengths (3-6 metres) on the stopping distance.
Please note: categories D and G are not used."

From that I guess the options are A, B, C, E, F. If F is the lowest legal rating a tyre can be sold at I am not sure I would be confident that would stop me in the frequent wet weather. My last two cars were front wheel drive and I got both of them home in snow, but only just, and on summer tyres. I bought a Jimny and put on ATs because I wanted to be more confident in bad weather. When I first got it the tyres were original Bridgestones and they were breaking away at the back on roundabouts in a bit of rain. The Geolandars are a lot better so far but I am hoping for some snow to try them out.


Ray