MK5 Golf GTI
All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: marka87uk on October 03, 2011, 11:08:05 pm
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What winter tyres would you suggest? I'd like a balance between price and performance!
Also, for those who normally do change tyres for winter, do you need to have anything else done apart from having the tyres fitted?
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There's been a billion threads on this both this year and last year. A search will reveal what you're looking for.
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All I will say is, they will be on the car for a similar length of time as your standard summer wheels, therefore use the same philosophy when buying winter tyres as you do when buying your summer boots. :happy2:
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I'd had good experience with Vredstein Snowtrac and Wintrac Extreme. I'd go for the Wintracs of the two as they are a bit more performance oriented.
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I've just bought a set of Kumho iZen KW27's for my 17" winter wheels, based on good reviews..paid £390 for the four tyres so hoping for good results if and when the white stuff starts falling, or at least the minus temperatures!
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Im looking for some at the mo ,and have looked at the bridgestone blizzak and fulda kristal montero 3. will go for the fulda i think as it has decent reviews and out performs some of the more expensive tyres . mine are going on a set of 15"tdi steels and are £57 each inc p&p
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I think any snow tyre will make a vast improvement over a summer tyre when snow has fallen! I ran lassa snoways on the anni for last few years.
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got some vreds wintrac extreme from my tyres, 150 a corner, they look the business :happy2:
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got some vreds wintrac extreme from my tyres, 150 a corner, they look the business :happy2:
When did you order and when did they arrive?
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i ordered mid september and they arrived probably week after, not too long like
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Cool. Can't see whether there is any stock and camskill have none.
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Cheers guys. I'm looking at maybe steel wheels and winter tyres.
On Mytyres.co.uk they do steel wheel packages - the Fulda Montero 3's are £130 and the Vredestein Wintrac's are £160. It seems pretty good value but I was hoping to spend around £100 per corner... :scared:
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I've just bought a set of Kumho iZen KW27's for my 17" winter wheels, based on good reviews..paid £390 for the four tyres so hoping for good results if and when the white stuff starts falling, or at least the minus temperatures!
I'm after some of these.... but can't find them at a price as keen as that! Would you mind sharing your source?
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To be fair you would find it difficult finding 16"s at that price
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I've just bought a set of Kumho iZen KW27's for my 17" winter wheels, based on good reviews..paid £390 for the four tyres so hoping for good results if and when the white stuff starts falling, or at least the minus temperatures!
I'm after some of these.... but can't find them at a price as keen as that! Would you mind sharing your source?
As per pm, just tried a few local tyre fitter places and got them early :)
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Dunno if it helps but for the second winter running I have done some price research and then phoned my local tyre dealer who has pretty much price matched the web. We only ran one set of winters last year and have decided to get both cars onto winters this year.
This tyre dealer I use in the NE of England has I think 6 outlets, so are big enough to compete on price and yet small enough to do a deal, if that makes sense. So local places may be worth calling if anyone is still searching.
Both orders have ending up being specific orders direct from Continental but prices have been 'competitive'.
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Right guys, I don't really want to spend much more than £100 per corner on winter tyres for my 18" Pescara's (I know you get what you pay for, but I only commute a few miles to work). For roughly the same price as each of these you can get a 16" steel wheel with tyre fitted but if they're going to be fitted for a few months, I don't really want it to look like someone has stolen my alloys!
Can anyone recommend any of these or a similar alternative?
These have quite favourable reviews:
Nankang Snow SV-2 - £101.50
http://www.tyrereviews.co.uk/Tyre/Nankang/SV2.htm
These I'm not so sure about as I couldn't find much about them:
Nexen Winguard Sport - £95.90
Accelera Snow - £90.70
Interstate Claw Extreme Grip - £79.70
Rockstone S210 - £72.20
Sunny SN3830 - £67.20
Sailun Ice Blazer - £65.40
I've heard good things about Hankook W300 Icebear tyres but can't find them in stock anywhere.
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Camskill had 18" ones in stock
**Noted now out of stock***
Just what i was planning on ordering...
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I have no affiliation with the company, but bought M&S tyres from http://www.clickontyres.com (http://www.clickontyres.com) last winter and was happy with the price and service.
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These have quite favourable reviews:
Nankang Snow SV-2 - £101.50
http://www.tyrereviews.co.uk/Tyre/Nankang/SV2.htm
Read my review here - http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,22302.0.html (http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,22302.0.html)
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Thanks Andrew, I think you've swayed me more towards them! :happy2:
When do you change over to winter tyres? When it's constantly less than 7 degrees or so?
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I have no affiliation with the company, but bought M&S tyres from http://www.clickontyres.com (http://www.clickontyres.com) last winter and was happy with the price and service.
Just ordered from them based on your post.
How long did it take to arrive? Which courier did they use?
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When do you change over to winter tyres? When it's constantly less than 7 degrees or so?
I think this year I'll be looking for the forecast to be consistently below 5°C.
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Well, I ordered tyres (for her indoors) last December, the snow then got bad that week so they had problems getting stock in and then getting couriers to collect orders.
It took about 10 days overall but the lad went out his way to get them sent as soon as the weather permitted. Due to this I was happy as it was out of his hands, especially as my postal area was one blacklisted by couriers for a couple of weeks last winter due to weather.
I don't know for sure what courier they used as I was out the country at the time and got it sent to my mates - I think it may have been TNT.
Seeing as you've ordered nice and early I think you'll have them pretty quickly :happy2:
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I picked up some vredestein wintrac xtremes from mytyres.co.uk... took just under 2 weeks to be delivered... I doubt it'll be too long now before they end up on the car.