when is best to buy winter tyres in the UK? is this too early for production runs so prices still a tad high?

I have been looking at prices for about 4 months now. But like everything now, prices just keep going up & up. :'(

So I bit the bullet and got some a few weeks ago.

I purchased a set of these last week Tyres. They seem to have some good reviews so hopefully they should improve my chances of acomplishing a reverse uphill parallel park in a rear wheel drive in the ice, without too much drama.

I am reliably informed that tyre prices will only be going up, there is no artificial substitute for natural rubber and with the recent natural disasters it's getting in short supply.

Those are what I bought

They seem more biased towards WINTER rather than SUMMER. Plus they have got the correct snow marking if you ever drive to Germany etc

Winter tyres are superb, but you still need to know how to drive properly.

I saw an example last year of someone I recommended winter tyres to after they got stuck in their driveway fitted a set then once they realised how much more grip they had started driving around everywhere like normal without making provisions for the conditions.

Winter tyres give you lots more grip, but you still have to drive properly. When I was taking driving lessons my instructor (ex rally driver) used to take me out in the snow to teach me how to control the car, we went to a big flat concrete park in an industrial estate that was used for HGV tests and spent hours sliding the car around until I could control and catch skids.

I think that snow driving should be a mandatory part of learning to drive.

Just recently picked up some Hankook W310 winter evo's (215/60 R16) from Camskill, last years production but at £77 each delivered they were £35 cheaper that mytyres at the time. Noticed that mytyres are starting to get their new winter stock in, with a drop in some prices and a wider choice of brand.

TP

Reading various tests (ADAC germany etc ) they dont do dry/wet as well as summer tyres and dont do snow/ice/wet as well as winters so they are just that - a compromise - jack of all master of none!!

The problem with comments like this is that they don't address whether all season tyres are good enough to do what people want from them, and in the case of too many posters doesn't come from actual experience.

My experience of Vredestein Snowtrac 3 tyres (a friction winter tyre) and Vredestein Quatrac 3 (an all season tyre that also has the triple peak snowflake symbol) is that the all season tyre isn't quite as good as the winter tyre on snow and ice, although it is good enough for the car wearing them to get everywhere the car wearing winter tyres went during last winter, and possibly it isn't quite as good as summer tyres during the hottest parts of a UK summer although that's much harder to tell.

Our car with all season tyres was fine last winter, has been fine this summer, and I expect it'll be fine during the coming winter. One benefit appears to be that even though the tyres are being used all year round they don't wear as fast as the winter tyres did when they were being used during the winter months.

Since 'normal' tyres appear to have been moving towards specialising in warmer conditions, my conclusion is that all season tyres make more sense for the majority of UK drivers.