Hi All

Just a note to thank you all for advice given and enjoyable threads. I have not posted for a while but a few of you may remember I was interested in a top of the range yeti to replace my bmw. Although I remain a fan due to a few issues including the high used value (good for you bad for me!) and what I consider to be a an unacceptable waiting time I have purchased a year old mercedes c class 350cdi. The car ticks all my boxes and as an ex mercedes management car I have saved over 14k on the list price.

I just hope for better weather in Lincoln this winter!

Thanks to you all for advice given and who knows I may have a yeti in the future.

Cheers Michael.

Always a pleasure to be of help... Since you don't have a Yeti I guess the only help now from us is on winter tyres for your Merc! So get some nice German taxi steel wheels and decent winter rubber! Enjoy the Merc.

Always a pleasure to be of help... Since you don't have a Yeti I guess the only help now from us is on winter tyres for your Merc! So get some nice German taxi steel wheels and decent winter rubber! Enjoy the Merc.

ditto, my neighbour put Nokians on his mercedes and was running round in the snow when very few other cars were on the roads. He was running when we had minus 18 and snow up to waist level on the pavements!

Another neighbour has 2 mercedes and they were parked up for two months and didn't move.

This is a picture of what the mercedes was coping with and never slipped once

I do get very fed up of hearing people say "my Merc/BMW is useless in the snow, I just have to park it up". When I ask them to explain how the millions of Germans manage in their cars they go dumbstruck, walk across to the next person and repeat their statement. Aaaarrrggggghhhhh. People seem to have a mental block on this issue and they simply will not open their minds to an alternative to the status quo of gritting the roads and sliding around. You have just given a great example of how to keep going whatever the car.

Edited 5 October, 201114 yr by EdmundBlackadder

Always a pleasure to be of help... Since you don't have a Yeti I guess the only help now from us is on winter tyres for your Merc! So get some nice German taxi steel wheels and decent winter rubber! Enjoy the Merc.

To be honest I live in the middle of Lincoln and not out in the wolds, so snow would not normally be much of an issue. For me the cost of winter tyres and having some crappy alloys instead of the amg ones on the car is a none starter. If I have to I will park it up for a week or so and use the other halves vw fox.

Michael

To be honest I live in the middle of Lincoln and not out in the wolds, so snow would not normally be much of an issue. For me the cost of winter tyres and having some crappy alloys instead of the amg ones on the car is a none starter. If I have to I will park it up for a week or so and use the other halves vw fox.

Michael

LOL we're not out in the wilds either, in the middle of a big town of about 80,000. But ice is no respecter of urban / rural divides. It gets slippy everywhere. My photo was an extreme example but two weeks before the snow my neighbour had slid across the plain black (ie no snow or ice visible) road surface and mounted the pavement damaging his alloy wheel. If a kid had been there...... :S

LOL we're not out in the wilds either, in the middle of a big town of about 80,000. But ice is no respecter of urban / rural divides. It gets slippy everywhere. My photo was an extreme example but two weeks before the snow my neighbour had slid across the plain black (ie no snow or ice visible) road surface and mounted the pavement damaging his alloy wheel. If a kid had been there...... :S

Hi I agree but I am not spending 2-3 grand for some decent wheels and winter tyres. I will just slow down a bit and take more care

Michael.

Hi I agree but I am not spending 2-3 grand for some decent wheels and winter tyres. I will just slow down a bit and take more care

Michael.

2-3 grand??? what kind of wheels did you have in mind??? a few hundred quid maybe but not thousands

Micky - you get a nicer level of abuse here!

Hope you'll keep in touch with us

2-3 grand??? what kind of wheels did you have in mind??? a few hundred quid maybe but not thousands

Having bent 2 steel wheels last winter, there is no way I would have alloys on during the winter......my cost was about £600 for 4 tyres and steel rims. Continental WinterContact tyres and Skoda steel rims. Because I destroyed an winter tyre last year, I now have 5 so that I have a full size spare winter wheel.

Having bent 2 steel wheels last winter, there is no way I would have alloys on during the winter......my cost was about £600 for 4 tyres and steel rims. Continental WinterContact tyres and Skoda steel rims. Because I destroyed an winter tyre last year, I now have 5 so that I have a full size spare winter wheel.

yup I was just over £450 for four. Of course I now have a spare set of the 16 inch 6J wheels. Not sure what to do with them yet. My neighbour may be interested but not sure what the going rate is for steelies.

yup I was just over £450 for four. Of course I now have a spare set of the 16 inch 6J wheels. Not sure what to do with them yet. My neighbour may be interested but not sure what the going rate is for steelies.

From memory I think my tyres were charging about £50 for a 16" steel wheel. Though it is probably worth looking on the bay of E to get an idea of price.

From memory I think my tyres were charging about £50 for a 16" steel wheel. Though it is probably worth looking on the bay of E to get an idea of price.

yeah i need to get round to that, so much to do, so little time