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05omegav6

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Re: Winter is coming...
« Reply #15 on: 08 January 2013, 23:37:19 »
Winter tyre test next week then :y

I won't bother swapping the wheels back just yet ::)
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cem_devecioglu

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Re: Winter is coming...
« Reply #16 on: 08 January 2013, 23:37:54 »
today someone was trying to move his car on nearly a flat surface (no winter tyres obviously) and the car fleet behind him all had to move backwards as he was desperate.. :-\
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Re: Winter is coming...
« Reply #17 on: 08 January 2013, 23:41:06 »
Quote from: Vamps on 08 January 2013, 23:34:10
Quote from: OOMV6 on 08 January 2013, 23:30:14
Quote from: chrisgixer on 08 January 2013, 23:19:13
Anyone with sports contact 3 tyres or similar tread pattern, stay at home.

In a test of winter tyres they tested a summer tyre as an example as well.

All winter tyres had stopped when braking from 30mph. At which point sc3 where still doing 25mph. :o

That has always been my point about winter tyres. It is on snow they really really come into their own. Would never go out on summers in snow again.

But we do not get enough snow to go out and buy winter tyres, as a matter of course, hell I bought a Jeep 2 years ago after a bad winter, seen hardly anything to worry about since..... ::) ::) ::)
hence stay at home, IMO.
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Re: Winter is coming...
« Reply #18 on: 09 January 2013, 22:38:34 »
I think tomorrow's Express may be over-egging it, but you get my drift (pardon the pun!)

https://twitter.com/UKSnowUpdates/status/289133363305013248/photo/1

 ;) ;)
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feeutfo

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Re: Winter is coming...
« Reply #19 on: 09 January 2013, 22:57:28 »
We should have guessed this would happen, seeing as there's a bloody great shipment of bushes just arrived on Pedders door step. It's the same every year. If rear donuts need doing....whoosh. Snow! ::)
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Re: Winter is coming...
« Reply #20 on: 09 January 2013, 23:12:41 »
Hmm. Until Eternal pull their finger out, choice is MX5 or Westfield. Well, as I moved the VPN to a server that actually isn't dead today, I guess work from home too. I wonder which one I will go for if it snows? :-\
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Re: Winter is coming...
« Reply #21 on: 09 January 2013, 23:21:43 »
is this coming from the same met office that said we would freeze for a month back not so long ago ::)
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Re: Winter is coming...
« Reply #22 on: 09 January 2013, 23:38:35 »
Looking on here http://meteox.co.uk/h.aspx?r=&jaar=-3&soort=loop1uur will possibly only be in the south until thursday

I got some of those chains from lidl - perhaps might have a trial fit over the weekend
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Re: Winter is coming...
« Reply #23 on: 09 January 2013, 23:40:46 »
I bought a set from Lidl last winter.Trouble is my Omega now has different sized wheels on it,and I will be using the Cavalier in the snow/ice anyway,which they also wont fit. ::) ;D
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Re: Winter is coming...
« Reply #24 on: 10 January 2013, 10:00:32 »
Quote from: Kevin Wood on 09 January 2013, 23:12:41
Hmm. Until Eternal pull their finger out, choice is MX5 or Westfield. Well, as I moved the VPN to a server that actually isn't dead today, I guess work from home too. I wonder which one I will go for if it snows? :-\

mmmm, a westfield with a full set of M&S tyres on it, now that is one mode of transport I would love to try.  ::) :y
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05omegav6

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Re: Winter is coming...
« Reply #25 on: 10 January 2013, 10:16:03 »
Quote from: Mr Skrunts on 10 January 2013, 10:00:32
Quote from: Kevin Wood on 09 January 2013, 23:12:41
Hmm. Until Eternal pull their finger out, choice is MX5 or Westfield. Well, as I moved the VPN to a server that actually isn't dead today, I guess work from home too. I wonder which one I will go for if it snows? :-\

mmmm, a westfield with a full set of M&S tyres on it, now that is one mode of transport I would love to try.  ::) :y

Can you buy studded tyres in the UK ::)

Stay at home is probably the answer, as I suspect the Westfield will make a very effective tobogan if we get more tha a couple of inches :-\
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Re: Winter is coming...
« Reply #26 on: 10 January 2013, 10:21:47 »
Never had any issues in the snow with standard tyres.  :y
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Re: Winter is coming...
« Reply #27 on: 10 January 2013, 10:33:03 »
Quote from: Marks DTM Calib on 10 January 2013, 10:21:47
Never had any issues in the snow with standard tyres.  :y

My Runways behaved impeccably in last years....Oh never mind ::)
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Re: Winter is coming...
« Reply #28 on: 10 January 2013, 10:36:25 »
Quote from: ex taxi al on 10 January 2013, 10:16:03
Can you buy studded tyres in the UK ::)

I would think that studded tyres are illegal here.  :-\
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Re: Winter is coming...
« Reply #29 on: 10 January 2013, 10:38:37 »
Quote from: Marks DTM Calib on 10 January 2013, 10:21:47
Never had any issues in the snow with standard tyres.  :y

 ::) ::)
 
 
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