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Jun 20, 2022 8:54:32 GMT
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Post by Humph on Jun 20, 2022 8:54:32 GMT
Finally got around to getting my summer tyres back on my car last week. Should of course have done it weeks ago, but it was a bit low down my list of priorities at the time. Car certainly feels more planted on warm tarmac. And quieter.
Our Aygo is on fairly inexpensive Hankook summer tyres. Seems pretty much at peace with those, even when it was cold. I imagine it would have been even better in snow etc on full winters, but it did very well on the two days this winter when it was asked to cope with more extreme conditions.
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Jun 20, 2022 13:53:29 GMT
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Post by EspadaIII on Jun 20, 2022 13:53:29 GMT
Narrow tyres always do well in rain and snow.
The design of current tyres is based on a Continental patent first granted to an individual in the 1980s when his Lotus Esprit Turbo was overtaken on a motorway in driving rain by a 2CV.
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Nov 10, 2022 10:07:44 GMT
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Post by Humph on Nov 10, 2022 10:07:44 GMT
Merc in tomorrow to have its winter tyres put back on.
Aye, the nights are fair drawin’ in noo ur they no?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2022 10:42:34 GMT
Aye. You'll have had your tea.
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Nov 10, 2022 10:52:44 GMT
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Post by bpg on Nov 10, 2022 10:52:44 GMT
Aye, we've lost 34 minutes daylight since the clocks went back. It'll be more for you oop North.
That reminds me, need to put more air back in my tyres since the service. The garage reset to normal settings, I usually run Eco while the temps are still in the mid to high teens.
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Nov 10, 2022 11:03:02 GMT
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Post by Humph on Nov 10, 2022 11:03:02 GMT
I would prefer BST all year round to be honest. Dark evenings restrict opportunities to do “stuff” outside and mean that more people are travelling/driving in the dark when they are tired at the end of a day's work.
Makes sense to me anyway.
There.
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Post by EspadaIII on Nov 10, 2022 21:41:39 GMT
I don't mind GMT or BST but I don't see the point of changing every six months.
If the farmers in Scotland want GMT in the winter, let's have two time zones. Whilst light mornings are nice, lighter evenings are nicer.
I wonder how they get on in Chile with a huge distance between the North and South of the country and big differences in daylight periods, especially in the winter.
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Nov 11, 2022 7:58:48 GMT
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Post by bpg on Nov 11, 2022 7:58:48 GMT
Probably the same idea as Norway. Although Chile is longer when you get to the extremes of North and South in winter in each country, dark is dark whether it's 10 in the morning or 2 in the afternoon.
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Nov 11, 2022 10:24:57 GMT
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Post by Humph on Nov 11, 2022 10:24:57 GMT
Right well, winter tyres on again this morning. Just as well really, it’s a bracing 16C out there today…😉
Actually, although I have kept the summer tyres, and have just stashed them in the garage, I can see that they are all pretty close to the end of their legal life. Maybe 3mm left on all of them. In the spring, I’ll most probably get some new ones but I’ll hang onto these for now as emergency spares because it’s sometimes difficult to get the funny sizes these are.
In the past, I’ve looked into all seasons for it but at the time they were like hen’s teeth.
Might look into sourcing a second hand set of wheels to put the summer tyres on so it’d be easier to swop them around myself.
Should have plenty of time for such faffery in due course. 😄
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2022 10:32:09 GMT
Not sure I'd want to put a worn summer tyre on, even as a spare, with 3 winter tyres? Unless it really was just for 5 minutes/half a mile to Kwik Fit.
I've now got All Seasons on both the Leaf (Michelin) and the Corolla (Uniroyal), and they really do feel good all year round, but when the Civic needed 2 tyres this summer (due to age, not wear), the other 2 were in such good condition still that I couldn't bring myself to fork out for 4 tyres. I have to say though the OEM Bridgestones on the car feel excellent in the wet, and I had plenty of opportunity to find out on my recent expedition North of The Wall. I think they'll probably be fine in snowy/icy stuff if that happens this winter, with the usual driving adjustments for conditions of course. But if we do get some, and the roads aren't blocked with abandoned SUVs on 21" wheels with summer rubber bands showing the cord, I might well take the Leaf or the Rolla out.
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Nov 11, 2022 12:03:27 GMT
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Post by Humph on Nov 11, 2022 12:03:27 GMT
Yeah I agree Al, I was just thinking of emergency use really. Get to a tyre garage solution. Much the same as having a space saver. Actually, come to think, I could just buy a space saver for that. Be cheaper than a set of second hand wheels I suppose.
Oh well, I’ll have plenty of time to think about it…😄
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2022 12:49:34 GMT
The big drawback of the space saver (aside from 50mph), is not being able to put it on the front. Well, people do, there's a Lexus IS parked in the next street to me today with a space saver on the front, but you know what I mean. I'm sure none of us on here would get that one wrong.
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Nov 11, 2022 13:05:37 GMT
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Post by bpg on Nov 11, 2022 13:05:37 GMT
I always thought it was the driven wheels you didn't want the space saver on to save the diff.
Difficult one with some Cherman cars having different sized front and rear wheels and AWD/4WD cars.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2022 13:20:05 GMT
Is it? Maybe I'm wrong then. I thought it was always wrong to put it on the front because those are the wheels which steer and having less grip on one side than the other would be dangerous.
Perhaps RTFM applies for any given car.
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Post by Humph on Jun 7, 2023 9:07:40 GMT
Sometimes I can get myself in a pickle with cunning plans. Thing is, I’ve been in the habit in recent years of swopping winter and summer tyres in November and May.
But, if you’re still awake, here’s where it gets complicated. My summer set are pretty much worn out, down to 3mm all round but I’ve kept them anyway for reasons I can’t remember. They are on a shelf in the garage.
I’ve left the winter ones on for now this year because I don’t think they’ll be good enough to go back on this November as the fronts are down to 4mm and the rears are at 3mm, so I thought I’d just wear them out and start again.
But, I’m going to the south of France with the car next month and will do about 2000 miles in the process.
Trying to decide whether to leave the winters on to finish them off, or put the old summers on to do the same to them, or just bin both sets now and get some fresh rubber for my trip.
I’ve driven in hot weather with the winters on before and they perform fine, so it’s not about safety really, just trying to decide what makes the most sense of it all.
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