preparing for winter

[Davemj]

My disco 2 td5 needs new tyres. I have 255 65 r16 at the moment. Now I live near the mountains in West Ukraine and the village gets cut of by snow in the winter so I need something chunky but know nothing about tyre sizing. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks

 

[Paul D]

Not trying to be funny, but I'd suggest you try a local stockist .. they ought to know what's best locally.

Conditions in the Ukrainian mountains are probably a tad worse than we get in the UK even in our hilly areas, so what's needed there may well be completely different to what we know about. It's rare we get cut off from depth of snow, more likely from shallow snow and ice, and rarely for long anyway!

 

[MrIFan]

As Paul says, local knowledge is likely to be better and you'll probably find tyres there that are unavailable here. In snow and ice the rubber compound and tread design are more important than having big chunky mud plugging tyres. Continental have a huge factory next door in Romania, I can highly recommend their winter compound 4x4 tyres for use in winter conditions.

 

[Thor1950]

Mountains,snow,ice= a set of tyre chains as a must have. Tyres alone won't work. Plus much more than 12" of snow on road surface you wont go far

 

[ER1C]

Not trying to be funny, but I'd suggest you try a local stockist .. they ought to know what's best locally.

Conditions in the Ukrainian mountains are probably a tad worse than we get in the UK even in our hilly areas, so what's needed there may well be completely different to what we know about. It's rare we get cut off from depth of snow, more likely from shallow snow and ice, and rarely for long anyway!

Speak for yourself townie.... we always get cut off.. There are mountains you know...

 

[Davemj]

I'm thinking to buy them in czech as here tyres cost so much. Also they see the car and think I'm rich and try to rip me off!! They don't know I inherited the car. Anyone know a landy place near olomoc ?? Also looking for second hand winch bumble.

 

[ER1C]

Have a read of these forums, the general view is LR tested tyres with the army and narrower cuts through the snow whereas bigger wider tyres tend to just roll over it spinning. Its horses for courses really, I would replace with road tyres and get a set of chains.

 

[Paul D]

Speak for yourself townie.... we always get cut off.. There are mountains you know...

OK, generally speaking ..