Since I live where long-term snow isn't a problem, I don't know about summer
and winter tires. No one sells them here as there is no market for something
that is used less than a week out of a year (he says with a sly look on his
facce).
Bill Pearce
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From: SwissPace [mailto:ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 2:31 AM
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] Tyres was Re: Soon we will have winter again
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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