Winter tyres - no stock of Vreds?

[PND]

I'm looking at getting some winter tyres to put on my 18" Monzas.  There seems to be a lack of stock of Vredestein Wintrac Xtremes 225/40/18 at the moment from the places I've tried.  My local tyre place said they've been told not to expect any more till January!!!  I'm not going to be doing many miles over Christmas but just want to be able to get around a bit better than last year! 

Does anyone know anything about Lassa Snoways Era winter tyres?  Lassa tyres are supposedly manufactured by Bridgestone but other than that, I don't know anything about them.

Any experiences of Lassa tyres anyone?

[Thor]

You have a PM, as i know who still has stock. 

[kirkland]

If you have no luck,,, ring Vredestein UK.
Thats what I did to track down supplies.
Shipments arrive from Holland quite frequently since winter tyre production resumed in September.

[182_blue]

Mytyres have some, although they are £50 more than my 19's cost me !!

[PND]

You have a PM, as i know who still has stock. 

Thanks for that Thor - bit pricey though!

If you have no luck,,, ring Vredestein UK.
Thats what I did to track down supplies.
Shipments arrive from Holland quite frequently since winter tyre production resumed in September.

I might see if there's any locally..

Mytyres have some, although they are £50 more than my 19's cost me !!

Yes - I've just spotted that!!! What's going on???


Cheers for the replies chaps!  Anyone know anything about the Lassa tyres (they're just over £100 per corner)?

[182_blue]

To be fair i think they had the pricing wrong on mine, they were £130 whi IMO was a bargain

[Thor]

You have a PM, as i know who still has stock. 

Thanks for that Thor - bit pricey though!

Yeah not cheap but i wanted a tyre which had great independent reviews and i know will work. 

Buy cheap buy twice as they say.

[Beddie]

I've gone for the Hankook Ice bear W300, £99 a corner from Camskill 

[SteveP]

I have been looking at the hankook's too, let us know how you get on with them Beddie 

[Andy]

i sell the hankooks at work and sold a few of these last year for the winter..every body who bought them said they were good  there is also avon snow tyres as well

http://www.avon-tyres.co.uk/car
Hankook report
http://www.tyretest.com/wintercar_tyres/hankook/icebear_w300/index.html