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gsr341
Member Since: 30 Sep 2010
Location: north wales
Posts: 72
 
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hi , can any one recomend a good winter tyre , ive got a set of 22" wheels , which i will remove and either refit my 18" se alloys , or preferbly will but some 19" HSE alloys (just prefur the hse alloys)
was looking at the Cooper LTZ but do they come in 19" , live quite high up(1200ft ) on the side of a hill and have to leave the house around 5am around an hour before the ploughs usally come out in the winter
so people , what do you have and what do you recomend and where from ?
cheers
Dafydd
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 15th Aug 2011 11:19 pm |
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geoff.
Member Since: 24 Jan 2010
Location: West kent
Posts: 8531
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tyres have been done to death on here but in my opinion the general AT is a good all rounder done me very proud this and last year 
geoff
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| 16th Aug 2011 12:10 am |
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gsr341
Member Since: 30 Sep 2010
Location: north wales
Posts: 72
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cheers Geoff
i know tyres have been done to the death , but with my poo computor skills i cant seam to get what im after out of the search function , and allways defaults to the data entry screen when i ''back'' button to leave a topic 
if what they say is true i thought i would get my tyres ready early in case they run out when the snow falls 
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| 16th Aug 2011 12:57 am |
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NJSS
Member Since: 06 May 2009
Location: Catherington, Hampshire.
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gsr341
Don't bother with 19" - stay with 18".
I too live on a steep hill; for all round performance consider the General Grabber ATs - speak to Andy at site sponsors:-
http://www.ajstyres.co.uk/4x4%20website/index.htm
He will give you good, unbiased advice & can supply at an excellent price.
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| 16th Aug 2011 6:34 am |
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hensoni
Member Since: 01 Oct 2007
Location: Sleepy Somerset
Posts: 576
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I can thoroughly recommend Vredstein Wintrac Xtremes running on 17" rims. The rims are cheap on Eblag (or here, as people move to the D4) and you don't care if they get scratched or pitted by salt or snowchains
The 235 width leaves plenty of room in the wheelarch for snow and slush accumulation (which freezes overnight and then tries to rip out your ABS sensors, height sensors and loads of other delicate stuff located around the hub - it cost a guy in our office a couple of hundred quid last year when he drove away in his Eurobox without clearing the frozen slush...). Likewise, the 70 profile enables hidden kerbs to be ignored with impunity.
Having said that, I was very impressed by the Disco's abilities running stock Scorpion Zeros on 19s - the Vreds are just better. On 'normal winter' wet roads, the Vreds cut through the water like a speedboat and they are soooo smooth. Club missing my D3
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| 16th Aug 2011 10:28 am |
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BLFarrar
Member Since: 02 Aug 2006
Location: Deepest, Dankest, Darkest, Dingiest......Le Halifax, West Yorkshire...with strong links to Ireland
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on the standard D3 - HSE rims
they still have 60% of the tread even though 20k miles old...will last till spring at my sorts of mileage
work well on flooded roads & are awesome in deep snow (French Alps two years ago)
the strange thing is that at bad weather "negotiating speeds"...the D3 makes even poor tyres (like Pirrelli Scorpions...crap in the wet especially when worn) appear to be good.
As a long term prospect Vreds are a safe buy..I have been using them over 30 years on Volvo's whilst living & working in Ireland they didnt (& probably still dont) do anything with the roads in Winter..... BREXIT - done properly.
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