Towed to safety in the snow by a frontera the shame lol
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Towed to safety in the snow by a frontera the shame lol
got stuck twice today in the snow and got towed to safety by a vauxhall frontera my tyres were just slipping all over the place in the snow on the spot, and my car were going around in circles, with every setting used on my C-Diff to no avail. my tyres dont grip for toffee,...what are the best snow tyres for a subaro on standard rims 17" on a 54 plate blob eye.
Also having young spotty teenagers driving past in a punto saying i qoute "No way a subaru stuck in the snow haha" i was devastated and the subaru credibility is sliding toward me wanting a range rover even more.
Also having young spotty teenagers driving past in a punto saying i qoute "No way a subaru stuck in the snow haha" i was devastated and the subaru credibility is sliding toward me wanting a range rover even more.
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feckin hell rick were are you driving i got stuck for 3hours in manchester this morning and my housing estate is a no go area regarding snow but the scoob still grips 01 bug uk
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range rover are sensible but scoobys are fun iv got both and still use the scooby when im on my own tyre wise get a cheap set of falkens about 30 quid a piece then just swap back to somthing decent when the snows gone
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It's purely down to the tyres, I set my diff to full lock and can get up anything, ice, slush, snow. I have Falken 912's on my car btw, brilliant in the snow. Of course I have the problem that we all have, over sensitive ABS.
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i got stuck on a flat road that had deep snow in heywood outside my mums and outside my house too,..the wheels spin and polish the snow to ice under my wheels, then im going nowhere,.definately getting some new tyres on fri pay day. what tyres are you running nick?
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Invest in 4 of these for your Imprezas.
www.autosock.co.uk
This is where I bought mine from.
http://www.roofbox.co.uk/car-snow-so...ck-company.php
www.autosock.co.uk
This is where I bought mine from.
http://www.roofbox.co.uk/car-snow-so...ck-company.php
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Is it a bit of a myth about mixing tyres??
dnc
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im using vredistien ultrac sessanta not a winter tyre but im assending a dencending hills ok bit sideways sometimes but be calm about ur driving and the scoob is a very controllable car, thank fully i did my advanced driver training up lake vernwy in snow and ice in a RWD BMW 1 series.
The scoob is good, but only as good as its driver and he/she is only as good as his tyres, paying cheap for winter tyres can sometimes just be false economy. Winters are said to get worse over the next few years due to global warming(yes i know it sounds odd but it can trigger a cooling effect) so im keeping some spare alloys with my winter tyres on(when i get them) for this seasons antics!!
good luck people
and
"be carefull out there".
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A fat wide low profile tyre cannot sit on top of the snow as it will just fill the (small) groves with snow and spin. A tyre needs to get down to the surface it can push along (tarmac) so needs to be thin to cut their way through. Often 4x4's are using thin nobbly tyres that bite down into the snow making contact with the harder stuff underneath which is why they are still out running at the moment on this uncompacted snow.
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I've had Toyo T1R's in some very deep snow on the flat and going up some pretty steep inclines in a mix of snow and ice. Never ever had a problem or got stuck anywhere...just stopping the bugger going downhill can be a prob.
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Splitpin...Make and model of tyre!! How can you show off like that without telling us the details please!!
ETA: I've just spotted these from Nokian: http://www.nokiantyres.com/tyre?id=1...akkapeliitta+7
Don't think they'd be legal over here though
ETA: I've just spotted these from Nokian: http://www.nokiantyres.com/tyre?id=1...akkapeliitta+7
Don't think they'd be legal over here though
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They're Dunlop gravel rally tyres, DZ86RW's I think, 195, soft compound and cut a little on the outer blocks.
Those Nokians wouldn't be legal over here - and the studs wouldn't last long on tarmac either. Their UK-legal winter tyres are good mind.
Those Nokians wouldn't be legal over here - and the studs wouldn't last long on tarmac either. Their UK-legal winter tyres are good mind.
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I got them from my shed. I can't remember where they originally came from, as I usually use Pirellis. These probably came from Mr Tyre.
You won't, like that. They're 15's. Closest you'll get on 17 is likely to be rallycross-type patterns. TBH on normal road wheels your best option at this time of year would be a proper winter road tyre. I use these because I have loads of them, and because they work very well.
Meh, as per Butty's post, who cares. What the letter of the law says I have no idea, but in practice nobody gives a ****. I've never heard of the fuzz stopping cars with gravel tyres on recces, and given my experience of your average police vehicle inspector they wouldn't know enough to be able to argue anyway.
They're not studded, IIRC they're e-marked, they're M+S rated, clearly have more than 1.6mm of tread on them, and I've put recce and full rallycars through MOTs with racing tyres on in the past without the inspector batting an eyelid.
I've never heard of anyone being stopped under such circumstances, and if it ever happened to me, especially in this weather, I'd just laugh and suggest that I was contributing to the safety of myself and others by choosing tyres most appropriate for the prevailing weather conditions.
I can't find any rally tyres in 17inch.
They're not studded, IIRC they're e-marked, they're M+S rated, clearly have more than 1.6mm of tread on them, and I've put recce and full rallycars through MOTs with racing tyres on in the past without the inspector batting an eyelid.
I've never heard of anyone being stopped under such circumstances, and if it ever happened to me, especially in this weather, I'd just laugh and suggest that I was contributing to the safety of myself and others by choosing tyres most appropriate for the prevailing weather conditions.
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Meh, as per Butty's post, who cares. What the letter of the law says I have no idea, but in practice nobody gives a ****. I've never heard of the fuzz stopping cars with gravel tyres on recces, and given my experience of your average police vehicle inspector they wouldn't know enough to be able to argue anyway.
They're not studded, IIRC they're e-marked, they're M+S rated, clearly have more than 1.6mm of tread on them, and I've put recce and full rallycars through MOTs with racing tyres on in the past without the inspector batting an eyelid.
I've never heard of anyone being stopped under such circumstances, and if it ever happened to me, especially in this weather, I'd just laugh and suggest that I was contributing to the safety of myself and others by choosing tyres most appropriate for the prevailing weather conditions.
If the worse was to happen and there was a serious crash involved using illegal tyres Im quite sure Winston would be happy to see you in the showers.