Show us your Winters

(26-11-2011 10:25pm)ytshome Wrote:  Yours look fantastic and the weather is just so right. You're lucky to live in such a beautiful part of the world and have a lovely motor too. Enjoy the snow. If anyone can give some basic advice on posting a photo I'd appreciate it as I've tried to add an attachment and nothing happened.

same as mine...though mine are 17"

(26-11-2011 11:34pm)PhilSkill Wrote:  Looks great Evoqess, like the wheels and good to hear it improves traction and confidence, did you sort out the TPMS?

Thanks for all the positive feedback! I'm pretty chuffed that I was able to locate some aftermarket rims that look great / fit the car. My TPMS dilemma was sorted by the service tech - he basically told me not to bother with sensors as they weren't guaranteed to work on non LR rims anyway. So I saved some cash and just have the infinitesimally small annoyance of a "TPMS not available message" on the dash at car start up. The red TPMS warning light does not illuminate. I'm keeping a digital tire gauge in the glove compartment and will buy a dozen bottles of red wine with the money saved lol!

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Those rims are tasteful YTS! When I placed my Style 4s in storage I noticed they were made in Italy which I thought was interesting - for even bits of my Italian Vespa are made in China! (I guess the Italians have their hands full making wheels for Landrover eh?).

What's the weather forecast look like in your parts for the next week? We will be down to 1 degree by week end so I am keeping my fingers crossed for some downtown snow.

(27-11-2011 10:31am)griff Wrote:  I can categorically confirm that after two years of winter where I could not get my BMW out we will now have no snow in southern England this year.
Why - because I have now bought a 4x4
Griff

Yep bought my Evoque purely to ensure we have no snow in southern England for the next 10 years!

My Style 4's will be my winters once I've had the use out of the Scorpion tyres on them! Need to get the wheel seal on them asap!

so that's what snow looks like.. We're just heading into a long hot dry summer, Xmas last year was 38' so seeing snow and that scenary makes me jealous..

What a view..

When I saw the title of the thread I thought, strange Evoquess wanted to see pictures of winter scenes, surely she sees enough snow in and around Vancouver not to want to see the snow others get......................... and on reading the thread I see you are talking about winter tyres (yawn, again) I have a set of Continental S&I fitted to 19" standard RRE wheels waiting to be fitted to the car when I get back. I went to the expence also of buying the TPMS sensors for the wheels at £220 for 4 OEM sensors, so they had better work properly.

Just the standard evoque tyres for me, over the past few winters my freelander 2 has coped well on the standard tyre.

(30-11-2011 11:48am)XFullFatTim Wrote:  When I saw the title of the thread I thought, strange Evoquess wanted to see pictures of winter scenes, surely she sees enough snow in and around Vancouver not to want to see the snow others get......................... and on reading the thread I see you are talking about winter tyres (yawn, again) I have a set of Continental S&I fitted to 19" standard RRE wheels waiting to be fitted to the car when I get back. I went to the expence also of buying the TPMS sensors for the wheels at £220 for 4 OEM sensors, so they had better work properly.

Hi Tim, Yes lets get some Evoque in Snow Pics...

Welcome back Tim! As you can see I have increased my post numbers considerably since you left with all sorts of fascinating and interesting contributions
Winter tires included! Well I really just wanted to show off those BBS wheels because I was amazed to find a neat new set on the used market.
I fully expect your TPMS sensors to work as they are mounted on OEM wheels.

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(30-11-2011 05:10am)3VOQU3 Wrote:  so that's what snow looks like.. We're just heading into a long hot dry summer, Xmas last year was 38' so seeing snow and that scenary makes me jealous..

What a view..

38 degrees, holy!! I grew up in Hobart so xmases were warm for sure, but Nth Hemisphere xmases are picturesque indeed with locals needing some cheering up in the darker, gloomy months!

Snow !!!!!!!!!