2011 Winter Tyres - What are you opting for?

[dazvessey]

i opted for my goodyear eagle f1's on wear pads and had no issues yet, glad i didnt spend loads on new tyres as i havnt needed them

 

[Dave_R]

I've got a pair of hankook ice bear on the front. Very impressed...feels really grippy on wet roads and just tried it on snow and ice over the past couple of days and the grip is amazing. I've got summer tyres on the back and it stil feels fine unless you really try and provoke it. Can brake hard without abs cutting in on ice

I got the wintercept and well impressed with them in the dry and the hailstones the other day left a White blanket on my hill, leaving a BMW and a fiesta stuck half way up and my 4motion Passat cruised pass them!


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[Fishy]

In the wet/rain the quadraxers have been fine, so a little suprised. As I said maybe some milage will help them.

If the worst happens, I'll move the Wintrac's from the rear to the front.

Fish

 

[idjbell]

So we've got Goodyear Ultragrip 2's on the Cupra R and Continental Winter TS830's on the FR.

Never done winter tyres before, but the wife is due in Jan so can't take any chances.

Initial feedback is the Contis are great, even with very little mileage on them, but they've only been out in normal conditions, very similar to drive on as a summer tyre.

Goodyears are taking some warming to. Just gone on this week and in the dry/wet they were quite scary over the first few days, but they've been brilliant in the recent cold snap, on ice they've been amazing, near full on throttle attempts to spin the wheels have just resulted in going forward with no fuss or drama. Just put 600 miles on them on a round trip to Newcastle so hopefully that's all they needed for when it warms up again this week.

 

[SteveTDCi]

I've been brave and just stuck 2 Nexen Winguard Sport on the Cupra, I know 4 are best but went with the advice of the tyre dealer, i've known them for 20 years and never had any bad advice, and he runs them too on 4 of his cars. Now i want some snow !

 

[yak00]

My FR came with the seat upgraded brakes, I presume if I wanted another set of spare alloys to put the tyres on i can't go lower than 18" ?

 

[Fishy]

I have the MK2 Leon Cupra brakes fitted under some OE 17's.

Fish

 

[Dean T]

My tyres are on the way out, was thinking of picking up some dedicated winter tyres, is it worth it do you guys think, given we are a few months into winter?

I was thinking about getting a pair of the nankangs mentioned in this thread then swapping to some summer rubber later on

 

[idjbell]

260bhp and decent weather....... Whoops.

Am happy to get my winter tyres off the car. Had some scary moments in the early days. Wouldn't do it again unless as per this year we had a baby on the way and couldn't take the chance.

Now how do I describe them in 8 months time when I want to sell them. . .

 

[JonTelfer]

Wow. Were they running over pressure? Looks like the damage is just in the centre. I took mine off this week and they look fine. Then again, the car doesn't really see much in the way of full throttle nowadays.

 

[idjbell]

Yeah, right pressure, had no uneven wear on the normal tyres, It's just a lot of full throttle in warm weather. Clearly not designed to be driven hard in the mild winter we've had.