All season tyres vs summer

patrickc

Question folks is it it worth paying extra for all season tyres, is the benefit worth it?

I need 3 tyres, I hit a pot hole during early lockdown and found a garage open and he only had landsail in my size, I'm not happy with that crap so am going to buy 4.

there's so many differing opinions about the seasons online, so I'm just wondering your thoughts here

car is a v60 tyre size 235/40/18

mikeecho

Personally.. I live in the very south of the island, and rarely see any snow.

I've survived on summer tyres in a rear wheel drive for many years .


It all depends on what you drive, where you live, and where you want to drive to.

extra-ordinary_

I've only ever bought Summer tyres.

scooby77

extra-ordinary_ wrote: »

I've only ever bought Summer tyres.

Likewise, but I do look for A or B rated wet grip. Last 6 years I've used Rainsport 3 or nexen nfera su1 on my own front wheel drives (get around 14 months out of tyres- mileage) and rainsports on wifes mx5, less mileage maybe last 3 years. No issues ever here in Northwest.
As an aside some high grip tyres have higher rolling resistance- if do high mileage I find makes a difference. I try strike a balance.

patrickc

Thanks folks, I drive about 40k a year on a mixed bag of roads. My biggest thing is stopping in the wet.

freddieot

IMO - Buy a good brand with all seasons. Michelin ,Goodyear, Hankook, Kuomo etc. Well known reputable brands. There's a reason they call summer tyres - summer tyres.

You'll get plenty of arguments from people now to get cheaper ones from Morocco, Lebanon or some other great value place but they won't be talking in your ear on a miserable winters morning when you have to brake suddenly because of some idiot doing something totally stupid.

soundman45

Ive used Hankook 4 season tyres the last 4 or 5 years, very happy with performance of them and tyre wear etc so can reccomend those.

Odyssey 2005

soundman45 wrote: »

Ive used Hankook 4 season tyres the last 4 or 5 years, very happy with performance of them and tyre wear etc so can reccomend those.

I can second that. Excellent tyres, especially in wet conditions. They displace a lot of water .

Casati

Odyssey 2005 wrote: »

I can second that. Excellent tyres, especially in wet conditions. They displace a lot of water .

Ive had them on a Leon for last 4 years too, generally very good overall and excellent on the odd occasion we had snow. I haven’t had any other tyres on the car but believe they aren’t great for fuel economy

cpoh1

In the winter the weather is routinely below 10 degrees especially in the morning. Even on crisp dry days with no frost an all season tyre will outperform a summer tyre for grip and stopping distances.

Someone mentioned never being stuck living in the south, that may be true but you need to think of all seasons as giving better grip and overall driveability. Havent regretted for a minute moving to allseasons back in 2012 on my daily cars.

Only concern is at 40k per year you may be going through tyres more regularly depending on the all season you go with.

soundman45

I was getting roughly 40k wear on the Hankook 4 season tyres I had, always happy with them and timed my tyre changes to try and have new ones fitted around Oct/Nov to fresh treads for winter.

unhappys10

Going to change my tyres soon, hoping for a bit of snow as I bought a 2004 quattro a4 recently
Will probably go for all seasons, always had summer til now with no problems.

tossy

unhappys10 wrote: »

Going to change my tyres soon, hoping for a bit of snow as I bought a 2004 quattro a4 recently
Will probably go for all seasons, always had summer til now with no problems.

10 years ago at this time of year i had just bought a quattro Audi that needed tyres so i put winter tyres on for the craic, I had some laugh that winter the car would go anywhere - the only limiting factor was ground clearance.

unhappys10

tossy wrote: »

10 years ago at this time of year i had just bought a quattro Audi that needed tyres so i put winter tyres on for the craic, I had some laugh that winter the car would go anywhere - the only limiting factor was ground clearance.

Yeh I see the ground clearance thing from researching online. Should be good craic unless we get the likes of what we got last time!
Yeh that time 10 years ago I had a Hilux Surf, went everywhere while there were cars in ditches all over the place.

CoBo55

tossy wrote: »

10 years ago at this time of year i had just bought a quattro Audi that needed tyres so i put winter tyres on for the craic, I had some laugh that winter the car would go anywhere - the only limiting factor was ground clearance.

I heard they weren't worth a **** in the snow maybe the fella who owned it had cheapo tyres on it, he ended up going around in his wife's 02 Micra.

I have 32k km done on Nexen nblue tyres I think they're summer, they're Skoda OEM I'll definitely be replacing them with Nexen when the time comes. There are triple A Nexen's on openeo tyres.

tossy

CoBo55 wrote: »

I heard they weren't worth a **** in the snow maybe the fella who owned it had cheapo tyres on it, he ended up going around in his wife's 02 Micra.

I have 32k km done on Nexen nblue tyres I think they're summer, they're Skoda OEM I'll definitely be replacing them with Nexen when the time comes. There are triple A Nexen's on openeo tyres.

Definitely very capable in the snow and on compacted snow you might as well be driving on a paved road on a wet day.