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4x4 vs winter
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Three peaks snowflake are better.
No norwegians use summer tires in winter here, and half use steel dubbed tires.
Still most main roads are salted.
Foreign trucks enter Norway on M+S tires tjhinking it will be adequate:
www.at.no/artikler/video-fra-e6-fikk-pol...tog-i-fronten/455597
Hopefully M+S tires will not be allowed anymore now..
Norway 2005 Jimny M16A VVT, 235 BFG MT, 2" Trailmaster, ARB rear lck, 17%/87% high/low gears.
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Bill Portland wrote: Where do mud and snow (M+S) tyres come into the scheme of things? .
I dont think they do Bill. I was having this very discussion with my neighbour earlier this evening.
I think that for tyres to be deemed as "winter tyres" and meet the minimum standards set for performing in cold or winter conditions only then can they have mountain snowflake symbol on them
I might be wrong but I think that M+S tyres without the mountain snowflake symbol won't be made of compounds suited to cold weather situations.
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Studded tyres are illegal here apparently
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The new Jimny just has summer tyres doesn't it? I wonder if they will do alternatives as an option?
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They are covered with those tiny sipes that supposedly grip a bit on wet ice.
I was hoping to just pop them on The New One when it arrives, but they will be too small, even if the wheels go on.
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Bill Portland wrote: I just popped out to check and the Peugeot 2008 comes with m+s tyres which also have the mountain snowflake logo. I'm impressed. They're Goodyear vector 4 seasons.
We had the G'year Vector 4 Seasons on our Meriva and managed to get out in the snow last year (just locally). We live on a hill that doesn't get gritted and we didnt get stuck,
They get pretty good reviews, and weren't particularly expensive either
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Ah so, you have a new JImny coming. Nice.facade wrote: The New One when it arrives, .
We have such little snow here that I am more worried about wet and in particular ice because we have a menace I never thought I would experience so much...........twisting bendy roads; they are a ruddy nightmare ...........and narrow with it.
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On another forum, there is a heated debate every year about whether it is worth fitting Winter tyres in England, when there are only 3 or 4 days a year at the most when you actually need them.
My argument is that if you can simply leave the car on the drive for those 3 days, then it isn't. However, if you might have to go to work then it is, as even the slightest bump will cost more in time and insurance hikes/excesses than the Winter tyres, but of course, you can't actually quantify this, as a bump you didn't have is nigh on impossible to value.
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facade wrote: On another forum, there is a heated debate every year about whether it is worth fitting Winter tyres in England, when there are only 3 or 4 days a year at the most when you actually need them.
I thought the main reasoning was that the compound worked better at temperatures below 7C, so probably 3-4 months a year in the UK.
I'm a big fan of winter tyres. My current daily driver is a 2nd generation Berlingo (XTR) which are terrible on ice/snow. I live at just under 1000 feet above sea level and run winter tyres all year to save the hassle of swapping over. I was expecting tyre wear to be an issue but the set of fronts I've just changed lasted 32K miles ( Continental Winter Contact TS850 ).
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reedx wrote: I thought the main reasoning was that the compound worked better at temperatures below 7C, so probably 3-4 months a year in the UK.
It is for me, but I can drive the
Plus I have already bought the things, I need to wear 'em out before they pass their "best before" date
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reedx wrote: run winter tyres all year to save the hassle of swapping over.
Precisely.
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What has really surprised me is the Duelers fitted on the new Jimny are summer tyres even though they are marked M&S. I would have expected them to be All Season?
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