(05-12-2012 10:57pm)Jonathon555 Wrote:  Well tonight we had some snow, infact we have had snow most of the day.

So tonight i just decided to see just to see how good the Evoque performed in the snow on summer tyres. My car has the 20" michelin latitude sport summer tyres. I was dubious that this was even going to work at all, after i have had these sort of michelin tyres on other 2wd car and they were beyond useless.

So i decided to venture out to North yorks moors which gets its fair share of snow.

I went upto a place called captain cooks monument , to get up here you have to go uphill for a couple of miles & then attack a steep incline with a hairpin in the middle. Followed by a steep single track road probably 1 in 4, this was heavily snow covered upto 3 inches . The hairpin had been gritted a bit which helped and a liile bit had been thrown down on the steepest part.

Well using normal mode the car got upto the top of the incline without too much bother, once we got to the moor top it looked like i was the only one that had been up there since the fresh snow. Once into the powder it had no problems , so i next decided to try getting the car up the steep snow covered car parks at the top.

So i tried using grass gravel snow and normal mode.

Ggs setting was brilliant , i only managed to get the car stuck once by going half way up the steepest car park and stopping dead and setting off again ( it just spin all 4 wheels up and eventually just slid backwards)

With a little bit of initial momentum it vever got stuck , i used hdc in forwards and reverse and it was brilliant.

So after messing about for 30mins i decided it was time to go home, i used HDC to go back down the steep snow covered inclines until it was safe to disengage it.

It just a shame it does not steer or stop that well with the summer tyres on the slippy roads winter tyres are king.

So for normal snowy driving will the Evoque get stuck , i doubt it .

Are winter tyre better deffo yes, will i be fitting them not for the time being.

Here is a pic from the Moor top

(06-12-2012 08:44am)Bodlyfunctions Wrote:  This looks like fun!
I am a bit confused though, and hopefully someone can advise?
There are several posts calling the Michelin Latitude Sport tyres 'summer' tyres.
I spoke with Michelin and they do not classify these as summer, but all year round tyres. It was said that it would be extremely unlikely any car manufacturer would release a car in the UK with summer tyres due to the varying weather conditions. They say summer tyres are totally different.
What is the difference exactly?

(06-12-2012 08:44am)Bodlyfunctions Wrote:  This looks like fun!
I am a bit confused though, and hopefully someone can advise?
There are several posts calling the Michelin Latitude Sport tyres 'summer' tyres.
I spoke with Michelin and they do not classify these as summer, but all year round tyres. It was said that it would be extremely unlikely any car manufacturer would release a car in the UK with summer tyres due to the varying weather conditions. They say summer tyres are totally different.
What is the difference exactly?