winter tyres are class when all the muppets all around you aren't using them, and would ordinarilly struggle to drive a car in a straight line at over 30 mph on a dry stretch of tarmac. You'll be stuck in the 5mph queue just like the rest of us.

 

Winter tyres are awesome! Here is an example how much fun you can have with good set of winter tyres

 

Aye

 

I could do that in my mondeo tdci station wagon

 

No, you just drive around them in my experience while laughing at them

More driving gods on summer tyres out for a "normal drive in the snow" below

 

Oh how I wish that was one of 'those' posters from the winter tyres thread

 

Not when there is no where to go - unless you can magically invent your own lane of course

 

Winter tyres can do that for mortals, you can drive anywhere with them! It's the same as the driving gods on summer tyres.

 

Indeed it is

 

Hmm, if the driving gods can go anywhere in the snow on the summer tyres - "just like normal" -then how come they get stuck?

I'll have to go away and think really hard about that one...

 

If i could somehow arrange for all the summer tyre users to have use of a car with winter tyres just for a week, i'd honestly make it happen. Just TRY and understand that yes we know that summer tyres can sort of cope most of the time. But on that one occasion where it's a bit slippier than you expected, when the car in front stops a bit quicker than you thought, you WILL end up in a worse place than if you had winter tyres.

I just don't get what part of that is so difficult to understand that it makes people post smugly that they're compromising not just their but everyone around them's safety. Just don't get why you'd want to gloat for being an uninformed idiot.

 

Never had a problem in the snow on normal tyres, depends where you are in the country of course, hills, amount of snowfall etc

It seemed to snow alot in telford when I lived there but never enough to get stuck in, now I'm back on the coast I doubt I'll see enough snow worth mentioning again (thank f*ck).

 

You get that special grippy type of snow where you live then?

 

SN attracts them like flies to **** Tel

 

No obviously I meant how bad you get it, bit different if you live in the peak district to living where I am you spacktard

 

You said you never had a problem in the snow on normal tyres which means you think you can drive on snow in normal tyres... see Tel's post for reference as to what you are

 

Yes I never have, so perhaps the snow I've driven in isn't as deep / bad as to where people who feel it necessary to buy snow tyres is????

F*ck me is that hard to grasp

 

Not as bad? You mean not as slippy as other region's snow?

Or you are just so f**king awesome you can defy the laws of physics?

 

Are you foreign? It's like I'm trying to explain something to a tourist

The snow I have been in obviously wasn't deep enough to spank a few hundred quid on new tyres. Are you trying to say you don't know the difference between a light dusting and a full blown blizzard?

At no point did I say I could drive better on snow with my normal tyres than with snow tyres, If I lived in the hills or somewhere else where you get heavy snow it might be worth the outlay then.

P.S I know you're only trying to wind me up nit picking because no one can be that f*cking stupid foreign or not

 

It's pointless explaining anything to him, just let the Wookie win!

 

So are you saying foreigners are by definition more stupid that UK natives?

PS Yes I am winding you up, but to be honest you are a complete f**king muppet so you deserve it! Are you urban in disguise?

 

Winter tyres are not snow tyres, winter tyres and snow tyres are two different things, just to clear that up as you seem a bit confuzzled.

 

MMMMMM wonder what happens when you type "crashes even on winter tyres" into google images????

 

Oh and first paragraph

http://www.gtspirit.com/2010/01/03/c...s-upside-down/

 

Can't kid a kidder

 

I don't care enough as I'll never use either

 

You will if I ever get into power and want to drive between Nov and Apr

 

I shall await with baited breath until such a time

 

edit

Anyhoo, winter tyres are not idiot proof that make people stick to the road during winter...

 

Exactly, to be fair in a way they could be worse. You'll just get the ar*eholes who think they can smash around because of the tyres they've got on, a bit of fear isn't always a bad thing.