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Winter Tyres - to fit so late in the season or not?
XFullFatTim
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Winter Tyres - to fit so late in the season or not?

I got home last week having left the car on it's 20" summer tyres over the winter. I wasn't expecting to come back to a mid-winter that has arrived at the end of March.............. Now I have used my 20's in cold temperatures without problems before but not in several inches of snow. I have a trip to Chester coming up in the next 3 weeks and I wonder if it will be worth changing over to the 19" Ice and Snow tyres I have for winter use. They are brilliant in heavy rain too, but I'm not expecting torrents of rain.
Anybody any thoughts on whether its worth changing over for a couple of weeks when we could suddenly be plunged into summer temperatures!

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26-03-2013 12:36pm
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Evogirl
 

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RE: Winter Tyres - to fit so late in the season or not?

All this snow could be gone within the next week or so. I am in Whitby and a friend drove from here to Preston on Sunday with no problems whatsoever he said the roads were absolutely fine.
26-03-2013 12:51pm
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peet
 

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RE: Winter Tyres - to fit so late in the season or not?

I took my winter tyres off 3 weeks ago because somebody told me it was almost spring Smile

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26-03-2013 01:30pm
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Bodlyfunctions
 

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RE: Winter Tyres - to fit so late in the season or not?

I had mine booked into my local garage this weekend to put my 20" style 6 back on - cancelled that on Friday morning. Given that West Yorkshire is still under a foot of snow in places with roads still blocked and threats of more later this week, i think i may wait a while longer...
Who knows, maybe my summer tyres will not even go on this year...???
26-03-2013 05:02pm
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XFullFatTim
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RE: Winter Tyres - to fit so late in the season or not?

Actually the summer tyres aren't too bad in snow, and I still have lots of tread left on them but it seems a waste to have a set of proper winter wheels/tyres and not to use them this year!

A Pangea Green New Defender 110 First Edition is now sitting on my drive alongside British Racing Green Electric Mini Cooper SE Level 3. After 21 years in my hands my TDI300 90 was handed on to the next custodian on 15 July 2022.
26-03-2013 06:07pm
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Offroadstu
 

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RE: Winter Tyres - to fit so late in the season or not?

Had no issues with 20s in the snow.
26-03-2013 08:10pm
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timhum
 

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RE: Winter Tyres - to fit so late in the season or not?

If you have your winter tyres mounted on rims it's no problem to change them over, better safe than sorry. I've used my winter tyres in warmer weather and there's no issues with them,
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26-03-2013 09:27pm
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