Make a donation

Poll

What are your plans for winter tyres??

Buying new winter tyres
keeping summertyres on
The old wintertyres are good enough
what are tyres?? ;o)

Author Topic: Well it's almost that time of year: What are people considering for wintertyres?  (Read 1197 times)

Offline danishmkvgti

  • Just look at my post count
  • ******
  • Thank You
  • -Given: 243
  • -Receive: 154
  • Posts: 3680
    • Email
  • My Ride: http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,7823.0.html
Well, just sold the 17" Monza´s with the old Goodyear Ultragrip Performance yester day, so i'm stepping up the game and go from 17" to 18" with these

http://ssl.delti.com/cgi-bin/rshop.pl?details=Ordern&cart_id=55438623.123.20410&typ=R-119182&ranzahl=4&Breite=225&Quer=40&Felge=18&Speed=W&weiter=0&kategorie=1&Ang_pro_Seite=10&Transport=P&dsco=123&sowigan=Wi

and the Pescaras as winterrims  :jumping:

It's quite difficlut finding winter tyres that are rated higher than 240km/h, but these are one type of them
Well, looking forward to your choices and reasoning behind them  :popcornsoda:

Over the top mod list ;o)

Offline cmdrfire

  • Just look at my post count
  • ******
  • Thank You
  • -Given: 0
  • -Receive: 14
  • Posts: 1359
    • Commander Fire - my blog
    • Email
Not sure what make of winter tyre but I reckon some 18" steelies will look pretty good  :laugh:
Need a roof rack to complete the job though...

Offline PDT

  • Just look at my post count
  • ******
  • Thank You
  • -Given: 3
  • -Receive: 142
  • Posts: 2010
    • Email
I vote for driving a bit slower  :smiley:

Offline danishmkvgti

  • Just look at my post count
  • ******
  • Thank You
  • -Given: 243
  • -Receive: 154
  • Posts: 3680
    • Email
  • My Ride: http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,7823.0.html
My own considerations are:

In Denmark we do get snow but come past midday the roads have been cleared so no need for wintertyres that are slim as i don't need to drive through inches of snow on the main roads.
At the same time i'm no fan of going down in rimsize as you lose the responsiveness of the steering by doing so. So the last 2 years has been with 225/45-17 and now i'll try with 18".  :driver:
My personal experience is that when the sun can't dry the roadsurface before midday you are better of with wintertyres. The temp of the surface is to cold for it to help the sun dry the dew off.

 :smiley:

Over the top mod list ;o)