Tyre question again ..

I am going to order an sd4 4wd. I am concerned that the summer road Tyres that are fitted will render the car useless in the snow.

Which means I am still going to have to buy winter Tyres anyway .

Or am I wrong ?

Hi Jonathan 555
All the Evoques, to my knowledge, are booted up with all season rather than summer tyres. My dealer and those I spoke to on the unleashed days confirmed that it would not be necessary to buy winter tyres. Notwithstanding that winter tyres would give better traction but they are not vital.

Cheers

Hi Griff, I am not sure that is accurate in reality (it would not be the first dealer to talk nonsense)... the contis which are being specified are summer tyres (ContiCrosscontact UHP).
I have specified style 6 and I am looking to get some Pirelli Scorpion Snow & Ice.

I know my tyres are Pirellis on my car but I too am planning putting Pirelli ice and snow tyres on. The tyres on the prestige I drove at the unleashed event were cross contacts.

The only Tyres I have seen so far on evoques are conti cross contacts and Michelin latitudes they both appear to be summer Tyres.

Which is disappointing as I would like ones for all year round.

If you have the Conti's they are a summer tyre, if you are looking for Pirelli S&I you will have a long wait as there is no stock in the UK at present and my tyre supplier has changed my order to Conti's equivalent and there's a shortage of them as well. I'm thinking of cancelling my order at the tyre centre all together and just making do with my Defender on it's AT's if I have to travel in the snow over the winter

So will a standard 4wd Evoque be useless in the snow ?

Absolutely not! LR has engineered the car to run year round on these tyres, it's only personal preference or legal requirements in Europe that people want winter tyres. I suspect LR fits the tyres it does for either fuel economy reasons or noise reasons.

No it won't be useless and it will be better than any 2 wheel drive car fitted with summer tyres. Providing you drive at a sensible speed for the conditions and allow more time to slow or stop you should be fine. Last winter in my Freelander 2 on standard Continental 4x4 Contacts I had no difficulty in negotiating the snow and also coped fine on a trip to the Swiss Alps in my previous Freelander 2 on standard Wrangler HP tyres. Land Rover Experience vehicles run on standard tyres all year round and don't seem to have too many problems in snow and ice.
Obviously though winter tyres will probably be better.

In a previous Discovery on standard tyres the French Gendarmes waved me through despite the sign stating chains were obligatory and I had no problem climbing the hill to the village centre.

Over here 20" is summer tires. Terrible in winter conditions. As I said in another thread not much help that you have a 4*4 when you are on summer tires.

All year are bad "all year". Maybe ok in the UK. In Sweden no people go for all year.

I will buy aftermarket 19" and winter tires for mine. (if I get it when its still snow. Who knows... November production might go into June considering how lousy LR seems to be...) I will probably go for Nokkian Hakka 7 SUV or their non spiked winter tires. Made in Finland for winter conditions in the North.

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And yes summer tires are lousy in Snow and really dangerous on ice. Trust me Im from Sweden.