Tyre question again ..

Won't we see market differences in the tyres LR fit as standard?

In Sweden they say summer tires on 20" and all year on 19". Sound strange as most people over here really don't want all year tires...

So if I spec 19" wheels will i get all season Tyres as standard ?

Or would an ED4 on winter Tyres perform better ?

(15-10-2011 05:53pm)Jonathon555 Wrote:  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.

According to the following article, the Contis are all seasons. As mentioned, with proper driving technique and care a driver might be ok. However - with the $ being spent speccing this car across the forum I'm wondering why people are contemplating not getting winter tires - a safety item. With the 4x4 we definitely won't have trouble maintaining momentum but what about when the car in front of you wearing winters stops readily, but you can't and rear end it? How would you feel if your brand new Evoque was rear ended by a car not on winters?

It seems that we only "um and ah" about winter tires where snow is infrequent and in these areas a snowfall causes utter chaos (Hello Vancouver).
I guess the crucial question is - is it worth taking a chance? Do you live in a busy, urban, hilly area? Do you want to go play in the mountains? I'd rather
spend $ on those glossy 20 inch alloys but I'm a bit risk averse.....

http://www.roverguide.com/8890/2012-rang...l-options/

Oh, and listen to Hybris! Our winter specialist

I could not tell you what to do in your country as I have no clue how much snow and ice you do get. Over here there will always be both. The weather in the Nordics can vary a lot during the winter. -35 one day and +10 another. So we need our winter tires. Over here the discussion is more if you should have spikes or not. Personally I like spikes as they are superb on ice and when you are not a pure city driver. But for the UK I would assumed spikes might be overkill.

In the Uk we rarely get enough snow to cover the road surface fully therefore spikes would be a definite overkill. Mostly we tend to get a mixture of slush and snow with temperatures varying between about +5 and -10. There has been no tradition in UK of fitting winter tyres although after the last 2 years of more severe weather and more settled snow there is a growing demand for them particularly among the BMW/Audi/VW drivers.
Most 4x4 vehicles in the UK fitted with standard tyres will cope reasonably well with the typical conditions we find but for extra peace of mind I would opt for winter tyres particularly if I lived in one of the more hilly areas of the country and certainly if I lived in one of the more Northern areas where there is a greater likelihood of significant snow and ice.

During the snow last winter the guys at Land Rover Experience helped out Northamptonshire Police using vehicles fitted with standard tyres without any prolems.

Spikes are illegal in the UK! IIRC snowhains are also banned here as they do too much damage to the road surface and your tyres if left on when they should not be

One great thing that helps keep you moving on summer/all season tyres in a modern Land Rover is the Terrain Response - you have a "Grass, Gravel and Snow" setting and it really works wonders, completely remapping the engine and associated systems like HDC, ABS, Traction Control, and the way the throttle works. It just will not allow you to try full power pull aways when the GGS setting is selected. I drove my last RRS on 20" summer Pirelli Assymetricos from Southampton to Stirling on the day after Bassingstoke got cut off from the rest of the UK. The English motorways had a little snow on them................ but at Gretna it was just a white line on the road at the border. 10" of snow all the way to home 100 miles north. I was prepared to camp out in the car that night as I had my full winter camping kit in the boot - spade, sleeping bag, camping gas ring and food (yes some of us used to winter travelling up here do make these precautions) - 3 hours later I was stepping in my own front door after the police and a griter truck had cleared the snowed in 2WD vehicles off to the hard shoulder - at one point I even help a guy with a Porsche Cayman that was going nowhere to get it off carriageway to the hard shoulder. The TR did all the hard work and all I had to do was get out every so often and clear the built up snow off the headlight glasses and run the heated front screen to stop the wipers freezing onto the glass. I stopped at J9 services on the M8 to call home and was greeted by a guy in a Ford Focus who announced that it had been about the worst winter drive he had ever done I told him I had driven all the way from Southampton and he told he knew that as he had followed me all the way from Winchester..................... and was going on to Aberdeen, it was also the first winter he had ever fitted winter pattern tyres to his car and was most impressed. Same night some friends of mine from Belgium also in an RRS were driving from Wick to Newcastle to get the ferry home - they met me at Stirling as they had my trailer to hand back to me and said the drive over the Drummochter Pass had been spectacular in 15" of snow with only other modern Land Rovers for company, the snow gates were close and police on patrol and only letting through groups of 3-4 properly equipped cars at a time. They had Goodyear MTR's fitted to their RRS.

I should post you a couple of pictures how it can look over here. We can get 20-30 cm of snow over night sometimes. Its actually fun driving in it but you need to know what you are doing. Sounds like the all around tires might work fine for you guys.

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BTW look in the other thread around winter tires. I did post the Evoque testing in Sweden in the winter.

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This is An official video in snow, if you look closely this car is running winter Tyres

No wonder it looks so good LOL


Check out this video on YouTube:

Great shout on the grass gravel and snow explanation. Thanks. Had forgotten that's one of the reasons I was buying the car in the first place! Can now concentrate on speccing winter tyres for my Clio. That's a must!