Winter tyres

[smiffy]

Got a set of good as new khumo kl71's on Surf. 265 75 16's.

Just wondering if its worth gettin a nice set of narrow tyres for the winter as i need to drive in snow to get to work and fancy doing some snow hunting!

Anyone know what the 750 16 size equates to,or recommend a narrow tyre size.

Cheers.

[DaveHMS]

Following the Inge's 'upset' with the truck last year, I was kicking around the idea of winter boots for this year.
I don't think winter rubberware would have helped in that instance last December - the stuck fire truck & falling down traffic cops who came to assist on the ice, probably said it all re conditions on that occasion.

Assuming a similar winter to last year, any of you chasps reccon winter tyres are a worthwhile purchase, given they won't get any vehicle out of the jams caused by other motors stuck in the snow?

[Diezel Weazel]

Got a set of good as new khumo kl71's on Surf. 265 75 16's.

Just wondering if its worth gettin a nice set of narrow tyres for the winter as i need to drive in snow to get to work and fancy doing some snow hunting!

Anyone know what the 750 16 size equates to,or recommend a narrow tyre size.

Cheers.

My Khumo's did just fine.... oh I mean great Fraser just let a little air oot..

Jess
"Cos short cuts can cost more in the long run"

[TonyN]

A fat set of A/T's work just fine, the more snow you can get packed in the treads the better it sticks to fresh snow on the next revolution of the tyre.



From last year, no lack of traction from 12.5" wide tyres.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=236942789073

[smiffy]

Hmmmmmmmmmm,thought narrow was the way to go. My 2.4 surf on 33 12.5 15's was hopeless in snow.

The snow blower at work must weigh 5t and its on the narrowest tyres.
Maybe it'll not snow this year.

[Koi]

I think the above is all well and good if your driving on virgin snow, yes narrow tyres and yes snow in the treads sticking to fresh snow.
If your thinking for the roads etc once its been compacted down by lots of other users and its solid then you need spikes on your tyres.

[J i m s t e r]

^^ THIS.

I drove around Kiruna a few years back (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiruna), it's 145km into the Arctic Circle. Everyone there legally must be on studded tyres through Winter.

The difference is massive. I remember making my first tentative turn out of the airstrip - on UK tyres, these conditions would have created traffic conditions like multi-puck air-hockey (at 2mph), but here we were, at speeds well in excess of 10 mph (!), and the car was following the steering wheel without fuss.

By the end of the trip we were hooning on frozen lakes and drifting the corners (this was in a Saab 9-5 with ESP). Great car. I've got two.

If you have the money and storage for another set of wheels for such conditions, I'd certainly invest in them. But IIRC, their legality over here is not clear and you can imagine they destroy the roads and themselves on tarmac.

[Apache]

Last year I got around fine, and towed others out of trouble on 33 x 12.5 BFG ATs. Better on fresh snow admittedly, but when its compacted to ice, no-one is going anywhere. (Well, going yes, stopping, not really...) - without spikes.

A set of chains and some ATs might be the answer? I'll be going the chains route this year if necessary. Got road biased ATs on the truck (as I bought it) at the mo and wont be buying decent rubber til after christmas. Then it will be BFG ATs again. Unbeatable!

[TonyN]

Hmmmmmmmmmm,thought narrow was the way to go. My 2.4 surf on 33 12.5 15's was hopeless in snow.

The snow blower at work must weigh 5t and its on the narrowest tyres.
Maybe it'll not snow this year.

Technically it is, especially if your racing, but most cases the day after all the roads in this country are just ice thanks to the crappy salt, so it dosn''t really matter what tyres you have unless you have chains or spikes.

Personally, I don't see the need, but I've never had a Surf on road tyres or cheap A/T's so it's not been an issue. If you run road tyres normally or M/T's then get some chains or winter tyres. Or just buy decent A/T's and be sorted all year.

M/T arn't that good on icy roads at all, A/T's are really the best all round tyre.

Deep snow like in the vid cutting down with narrow tyres is irrelivant, cos the axles just snow plow, so you're better of 'floating' as you can see there is no shortage of traction on virgin deep snow. Would you walk on snow in high heels, or tennis rackets?

[J i m s t e r]

Hairakkususāfu

LOL. Yet this is the official translation.

I have a mate who works in shipping and he has to deal with Japanese-engrish a lot. We have a right old chuckle at some of the approximations.

I might consider removing the badges off mine to travel innucoggorido.

[Smego2]

I had no issues with the BFG Mt's last year on the snow or ice (yes obviously you don't drive the same or at the same speeds) found the levels of grip fine, had some issues on the steeper slopes but a careful right foot going up and low box with a run off coming down.

[Apache]

Would you walk on snow in high heels, or tennis rackets?

At weekends, in the dark?

[TonyN]

At weekends, in the dark?

If any one would...