spider47

I have Pirelli P6000 on my Superb and found them to be absolutely fine. Even in this weather (thick snow) where everyone seems to be crawling along at 15mph or sliding and getting stuck I don't seem to have a problem. The only time I feel a little slide is where there is a gradient immediately after turning left but then all I tend to do is depress the clutch and correct the steering and it's up the hill with gentle acceleration. Even yesterday when driving along a country road and coming across four cars driving in the middle of the road - I moved to the side and stopped the front car also stopped without pulling into the side and stayed there, after about 1 - 2 minutes of waiting (expecting the front car to pull into the side also) and no response from the other vehicles I flashed my main beams as I pulled away in the deep snow and passed all four vehicles before moving back into the centre again myself. As there where no vehicles in front now I increased my speed to see how well the tyres held, at just over 40mph (42-43mph) I felt traction becoming less sure so I dropped down to 35mph and maintained that speed for another 2 or 3 minutes before dropping to 20mph as I could see some houses coming up. Given that these tyres are not winter or all weather tyres I think they have done extremely well for summer tyres in these weather conditions. I would actually be running winter tyres right now but I can't get hold off any at the mo. My P6000s are like new so no wear and maybe that's why they have such good grip.

Contacted my local branch of Kwik-Fit on Tuesday re getting some winter tyres. They told me that that they were out of stock but would be getting some in in the next day or so and that they would be £394 for four (down from over £520) so I asked them to get me some. I then came across this thread when I was looking for what wheels to get off eBay (I order from my dealer in the end). So when Kwik-Fit rang me back this morning I quoted the prices that I had found on this thread - they wanted to know which branches had supplied and what speed rating they were (I presumed that they were Continental Winter Contact TS830 size 205/55R16 91H) but was unsure as I could find the rating quoted. The chap started to get a bit annoyed with me as he had been on the phone over 7 minutes and I couldn't give him a definitive price (as different prices had been quoted on the thread), he said that he would need to see an invoice for the price paid and not what people had claimed to have paid. I then quoted what FatblokeVRS had said about ordering online and then popping round to have them fitted. The problem now is that I can't find them online although they have them in stock locally.

Contacted my local branch of Kwik-Fit on Tuesday re getting some winter tyres. They told me that that they were out of stock but would be getting some in in the next day or so and that they would be £394 for four (down from over £520) so I asked them to get me some. I then came across this thread when I was looking for what wheels to get off eBay (I order from my dealer in the end). So when Kwik-Fit rang me back this morning I quoted the prices that I had found on this thread - they wanted to know which branches had supplied and what speed rating they were (I presumed that they were Continental Winter Contact TS830 size 205/55R16 91H) but was unsure as I could find the rating quoted. The chap started to get a bit annoyed with me as he had been on the phone over 7 minutes and I couldn't give him a definitive price (as different prices had been quoted on the thread), he said that he would need to see an invoice for the price paid and not what people had claimed to have paid. I then quoted what FatblokeVRS had said about ordering online and then popping round to have them fitted. The problem now is that I can't find them online although they have them in stock locally.

Both links work. Thanks.