tyres for a bad winter???

bungaro79

trying to be proactive and assuming that we're going to have a bad winter like the past few years so am hoping that now is the best time to buy snow socks or whatever in case of bad icy roads. so i'm hoping people can recommend me what they used and found to be good in the past year. and are there any good websites for buying them?? thanks in advance!

Anan1

Winter tyres - try eiretyres, camskill, and pneus online. You'll need a spare set of wheels to mount them on too, but they shouldn't cost much if you start the search early.

CiniO

bungaro79 wrote: »

trying to be proactive and assuming that we're going to have a bad winter like the past few years so am hoping that now is the best time to buy snow socks or whatever in case of bad icy roads. so i'm hoping people can recommend me what they used and found to be good in the past year. and are there any good websites for buying them?? thanks in advance!

Only I can think of for bad icy roads, are studded tyres.
I'm not sure though, are they legal in Ireland?

Matt Simis

CiniO wrote: »

Only I can think of for bad icy roads, are studded tyres.
I'm not sure though, are they legal in Ireland?

Yes they are but he should just try normal studless Winters first. Your definition of badly iced and his likely arent the same!

A-Trak

Sourcing wheels and tyres myself now as well, I'm getting married in December so probably it may be frowned on if I blame the weather for not showing up.

With winter tyres, should you keep the same size and profile as your summers?
Is there any benefit in dropping down a size for example? (From 16' to 15' in my case.

Matt Simis

A-Trak wrote: »

Is there any benefit in dropping down a size for example? (From 16' to 15' in my case.

Yeah, cheapness!
If the 15" fit over your brakes then thats fine, though tbh I would have thought 16" to be the most popular size wheel in Ireland (and therefore you should stick with them).

bungaro79

Anan1 wrote: »

Winter tyres - try eiretyres, camskill, and pneus online. You'll need a spare set of wheels to mount them on too, but they shouldn't cost much if you start the search early.

thanks for all the replies so far!

i checked some of those websites anan and they've got loads of tyres to choose from which is great! i thought that winter tyres were just like normal tyres in the sense that i just needed to take the normal ones off and put these on, am i wrong in this?? i've a link below for one of them, so are you saying that i'd need to buy something else with this?? last question is on the page where it gives you the choices (http://www.eiretyres.com/Winter_Tyres.html) theres an option for tyre size. there are threr numbers, can anyone tell me what they mean?!



http://ssl.delti.com/cgi-bin/rshop.pl?details=Ordern&cart_id=68763919.124.23525&typ=R-185129&ranzahl=4&Breite=195&Quer=65&Felge=15&Speed=T&weiter=0&kategorie=6&Ang_pro_Seite=20&Transport=P&dsco=124&sowigan=Wi

CiniO

bungaro79 wrote: »

thanks for all the replies so far!

i checked some of those websites anan and they've got loads of tyres to choose from which is great! i thought that winter tyres were just like normal tyres in the sense that i just needed to take the normal ones off and put these on, am i wrong in this?? i've a link below for one of them, so are you saying that i'd need to buy something else with this?? last question is on the page where it gives you the choices (http://www.eiretyres.com/Winter_Tyres.html) theres an option for tyre size. there are threr numbers, can anyone tell me what they mean?!



http://ssl.delti.com/cgi-bin/rshop.pl?details=Ordern&cart_id=68763919.124.23525&typ=R-185129&ranzahl=4&Breite=195&Quer=65&Felge=15&Speed=T&weiter=0&kategorie=6&Ang_pro_Seite=20&Transport=P&dsco=124&sowigan=Wi

Ad1. What other posters were advising you was additional set of rims, on which you would put winter tyres.
Then you just swap whole wheels between winter and summer.

If you don't get extra rims, you would have to go to tyre garage to swap tyres over your rims, twice a year (before winter and then before summer). Which will cost you probably between 50 and 100 each time.

Ad2. These 3 numbers is a tyre size.
fe. 195/65 R15 means that tyre is 195mm wide, it's profile is 65% and if fit's rim size 15".
There's additional two parametres like f.e. "91T" which is weight index and speed index - all have to comply with requirement for your car.

Take a look what numbers you have on your current tyres, and get the same.

Ad3. Tyres from link you showed will be absolutely crap. If you want to get something descent cheaply, go for those - http://ssl.delti.com/cgi-bin/rshop.pl?details=Ordern&cart_id=68763919.124.23525&typ=R-122244&ranzahl=4&Breite=195&Quer=65&Felge=15&Speed=T&weiter=0&kategorie=6&Ang_pro_Seite=20&Transport=P&dsco=124&sowigan=Wi
They will be way better, and are even cheaper.

bungaro79

CiniO wrote: »

Ad1. What other posters were advising you was additional set of rims, on which you would put winter tyres.
Then you just swap whole wheels between winter and summer.

If you don't get extra rims, you would have to go to tyre garage to swap tyres over your rims, twice a year (before winter and then before summer). Which will cost you probably between 50 and 100 each time.

Ad2. These 3 numbers is a tyre size.
fe. 195/65 R15 means that tyre is 195mm wide, it's profile is 65% and if fit's rim size 15".
There's additional two parametres like f.e. "91T" which is weight index and speed index - all have to comply with requirement for your car.

Take a look what numbers you have on your current tyres, and get the same.

Ad3. Tyres from link you showed will be absolutely crap. If you want to get something descent cheaply, go for those - http://ssl.delti.com/cgi-bin/rshop.pl?details=Ordern&cart_id=68763919.124.23525&typ=R-122244&ranzahl=4&Breite=195&Quer=65&Felge=15&Speed=T&weiter=0&kategorie=6&Ang_pro_Seite=20&Transport=P&dsco=124&sowigan=Wi
They will be way better, and are even cheaper.

cheers for that cinio!