every year the swiss and german motoring magazines do a test of winter
tyres, always near the top are the michelin alpin's and the continental
winter sport (these are the ones I have). I will keep an eye out nearer
the time and post a review to teh list if anyone is interested. In
your book for the car you should have recommendations for winter tyre
size, and yes they are usually narrower.
Unfortunately since swapping the landrover the four snow chains I had
for it won't fit the bigger tyres on the new one, never had to use them
but it made journeys in the alps more reassuring.
With winter tyres age is also important (probably also for summer
tyres), my Audi has the original set of winter tyres I bought when new,
and they were brilliant coupled with the 4wd when new, for example I
went on a skiing trip with pals to arosa and had no problems at all, all
the others in the party had to stop and put chains on. Now however they
still have plenty of tread but are 9 years old and are useless in the
snow, I guess the rubber hardens over time. As an aside I swapped the
summer tyres which lasted 8 years last year, (it costs over an E-5 a
set) and that transformed the car - but thats another story.
IanW
On 21/09/2010 09:07, Johan Malmstrom wrote:
> I'll bounce back this subject when we're on the tyres subject.
>
> I recently bought a new (used) car, Volvo V70 bi-fuel. Bi-fuel means that it
> runs on petrol and on our bio-garbage and farm waste.
>
> Anyway, this car is "typed" to run on 16" or larger wheels, for the summer
> tyres it's equiped with 17" wheels. I'm now looking for new winter tyres, but
> I don't know how the system works. For winter I like to have narrow tyres so
> that they does not "float" on snow.
>
> Any one have some insight on how to choose good winter tyres?
>
> / Johan
> Sent from my iPad
>
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