Shauna1

Well, it seems I need to sell my rubbish Pirellis and find four Michelin CC's. Many, many thanks for the advice everyone and not laughing at my 'inexperienced' questions.

Fantastic, I’ll try this tomorrow morning

Pirelli P Zeros. Loads of tread as the tyres were bought in July time and we have bikes for burning rubber. I see that they are defo summer tyres so that must be the issue 😳 Mileage is around 18k

Thanks for the warm welcome. Yes correct, I had absolutely no traction trying to drive forwards up the hill. Our car is an automatic so I also tried the manual gears and still no luck. I was wondering if there was a snow mode I haven’t found in this car and/ or turning on/ off some of the settings? Great advice about the tyres for winter, like I said I’m interested in investing in some winter wheels and tyres for now and future winters 😉 My last car was an Audi Quattro all wheel drive, so I was a spoilt.

I attempted to drive up a very snowy and icy hill this week and our Octavia decided that it would only reverse down the hill and not up it. Just wondering if it is a summer tyre issue (currently using 225/35/R19/88Y) or if any of you have any good ideas I could try. For the future, I'm thinking of investing in some steel rims and winter tyres and keeping them in my husband's man cave...