Just a note about winter tyres....

[mr wilks]

Big advocate of winter rubber , first thing i did with my daughters Mini was fit her a set of Avon winter rubber to use all year round as they also offer greater safety on wet roads / mways
Ive also been running a set of Hankook Ice bear staggered 18s on our C Class estate .
Bought new over 2 years ago & covered 17k in that time including numerous France trips in summer & winter .
I wanted to run them all year to explore the myth that they would wear faster if used in warmer weather , my findings are that they haven't as measured today the rears are minimum 5mm & fronts minimum 6mm Id expect another 2 years / 13k at this rate so the £340 paid out initially for 4years / 30k is more than acceptable to me .
I would'nt run winters through summer on my Z4 though :wink:

 

[ronk]

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I wanted to run them all year to explore the myth that they would wear faster if used in warmer weather , my findings are that they haven't as measured today the rears are minimum 5mm & fronts minimum 6mm Id expect another 2 years / 13k at this rate so the £340 paid out initially for 4years / 30k is more than acceptable to me .
I would'nt run winters through summer on my Z4 though :wink:

I used Vredestein Wintracs on a Discovery 3 for years Summer and Winter and the wear rate was excellent ie half that of the standard fit Pirelli that were goosed at 20k
The Vredesteins were at about 5mm at the same miles - that was on a 2.9 tonne vehicle - but I’m another who wouldn’t leave them on a performance car.

 

[NickDE]

I have Yokohama winters on my E46, and are way better in the winter than Dunlop all season's.
On the Z4C auto I have on a set of Dunlop Wintersport 5's. I went down from 18" staggered summers to 17" parallel slimmer winters. They're great. I hit a patch of ice on the A68 a couple of weeks ago during a 60mph overtake in the dark. No issues except the traction light came on. Last night came down the A697 which was completely white with snow. Not even a hint of slipping even up to 50mph.