Tyres for snow and ice?

[Mr_V]

Hi there.
It will be my first winter with a Landy this year, and I was wondering if I would be best off keeping my road legal mud tyres on for snow and ice on the roads, or whether a/ts would be more suitable?

I suppose the question is, is there any advantage using chunky mud tyres in the ice/ snow?

 

[hughesy]

What's the probability of snow in dunstable? Pretty feckin slim I would have thought.

 

[Mr_V]

We are quite high up actually, so it tends to freeze up through February and March.

 

[sam300tdi]

I looked on the insa turbo website and it says their mud tyres are good for snow aswell. not sure about ice tho, but i am hoping it will snow so i can try them out

 

[hughesy]

We are quite high up actually, so it tends to freeze up through February and March.

I'm right on the edge of snowdonia but I can't remember the last time I drove in snow. I think the days of changing your tyres for the winter have gone. Mud tyres will cope with anything you can throw at em

 

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[robpenrose]

i worked in a ski resort for a season so driven in alot of snow. Work deependers originally had General Grabbers, lots of tread but were not great. We got some snow tyres, were Discovery Somethings i think, and although they were snow tyres, they were still not great. Put it down to the fact that landies are fooking heavy and unless you have studs or chains, they arn't going to be great. The main problem is stopping, not the driving although they can get stuck easily on a patch of ice. I got stuck in a car park on a very slight hill, and i mean very. Couldnt go forward cause of fence, but was skidding on the ice. I wouldnt worry about snow tyres in the UK to be honest, just drive more sensibly when its cold. Im going skiing this year too and taking out my Disco. Got normal Michellin Syncro tyres on and not going to change them.

hope this helps

 

[SCOTSMAN]

No real need for snow tyres in bedfordshire. Drive with extreme care or dont drive.

 

[Spyderman]

I've got a set of Pirelli Ice & Snow for the Winter. Michelin XL's are terrible on cold Tarmac and ice, yet fantastic in Mud, so I'll swap them over whem it gets cold.
I change the Tyres on my Espace, come the Winter months. Summer tyres for the Summer and Winter tyres for the Winter. Doesn't cost any more apart from the initial outlay. You can only wear one set at a time.
The grip with a proper Winter Tyre is amazing in cold conditions.

 

[jai_landrover]

I can confirm that XCL's minus the metal studs are (lots of fun) Dangerous in the snow 2 years ago while pottering to work in Dunstable I had lots of sideeways action the woodside estate in particular was interesting passing all those stranded modded corsa's at 90 degrees.

Those tyres are BF goodrich copies Bronco track edge and are quite good in the snow compared to Xcls and Pirelli scorpions. I would even go as far to say that half worn Pirelli scorpions are worse than xcls in the snow/ice. Jai