The winter wheel/tyre debate seems to go on and on. Just to muddy the waters even further, I thought I'd make all the well informed Yeti owners aware of an alternative product. Tyre Grip, is an aerosol which coats the surface of your tyre with a sticky resin and enables increased grip on ice and snow. It's applied a couple of minutes before you drive off and the manufacturers claim that it increases grip by 300%. After it's applied to all 4 wheels, the manufacturers also claim that it can last up to 50 miles. Each aerosol can is sufficient for 20 applications. Bold claims by the manufacturer but it's been on the market for a good few years, sells for under £20 and there have been some favourable comments from joe public. I haven't tried it myself but would welcome any comments from the Yeti fraternity.

Link - www.tyre-grip.net

Obviously this is not a product that should be used as an alternative to winter tyres but it could get you out of some slippery situations. Let the arguments begin!

Cheers

Armayeti

Good if you've just applied it, before that child steps off the pavement on a cold icy/ snowy morning. I'd rather trust having winter tyres on.

Is it treacle?

Emperor's New Clothes?

Beggars belief, but I'd be happy to be proved wrong!

Believe their was a post many moons ago about this stuff; winters proved more popular from memory

TP

North East Scotland lorry drivers used a can with molasses and a paint brush when i was young, in the 60/70's

If you need to get an HGV 'moving'/starting moving on black ice or any kind of ice,

you would use it on the drive tyres.

It works.

As to on a car, then funnily its often impossible to stand on black ice, let alone mess about with that.

It lasts hardly anytime in my experience,

& that was years ago when an HGV driver gave me a can to try.

but then if you want to go many miles in ice surfaces, trusting to stuff like that would not be my choice.

It does not work in snow any different from the tread of the tyres you are putting it on,

if the tyres have treads filled with snow, then that stuff does not help. IME.

george

I think the whole point of tyre grip is that it is only short lived, just enough to get you out of that difficult area and on to the tarmac.

Beats having to put on chains or snow socks then have to take them off as soon as the tarnmac is reached.

The tyre grip just wears off as soon as you hit tarmac.

I have a can in the boot, never used it, always managed to get around on my summer tyres and 4x4 with careful driving even in snow and ice.

Obviously not as good as winter tyres but adequate if you drive carefully.

Cheers

I believe winters tyres have some grooves/sipes cut in them so that snow fills them in and provides better traction on snow, its not the open tread that provides grip, its the snow filled grooves

I think the best solution would be Velcro Tyres and Velcro Roads. :yes:

I think the best solution would be Velcro Tyres and Velcro Roads. :yes:

Would be interesting to see what effect that has on MPG

Snow filled grooves is a good theory, & in certain types of snow with grip at certain temperatures it does act exactly like velcro.

I would have thought someone in Nairn would have had experience of tyres clogged with snow and giving no grip.

I like my grooves/sipes doing there job on prepared surfaces & ice, thats winter/cold weather tyres.

My snow tyres do a different job and they work best when they clear the snow and get grip as they roll.

I would not really be putting Black Grip on if using the suitable tyres in the first place.

http://www.etyres.co.uk/consumer-information/tyre-sipes-siping.htm

george

My cold weather tyres have the sipes mentioned above. The snow sticks to them and the the snow grips to the snow on the road, which is what gives the traction.

As mentioned above snow tyres work in a different way.

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Is this a slow speed thing with cold/very cool, 'Cold Weather tyres' and the snow in the sipes?

george

Two years ago during the bad snow, most of the residents in my estate couldn't get their cars onto the main road for over a week. Our estate lies at the bottom of a steep hill which was never gritted despite numerous complaints being made to the roads department. It was very frustrating seeing the main roads well gritted and safe to drive on while numerous cars were stranded in the estate. Hopefully, this won't happen again but I purchased a can of tyre grip as an aid to get the car out of the estate onto the treated main roads. I didn't own a 4x4 two years ago and my Honda Civic couldn't cope with the conditions. I'm confident that my Yeti 4x4 with summer tyres should cope with a similar situation but I thought this product could be useful for the little Skoda CityGo that my wife drives. If and when it's used, I'll give some feedback.

Thanks for your replies.

I wonder what effect it has on your tyres? Does it soften the tread at all, which will then increase wear?

So snow grip in a can, I am a bit dubious about this type of thing, I would also like to be proven wrong and the spray work. I found this on youtube and as you can see is it the spray or did he take the handbrake off and use less revs to move off the second time? You decide

Time and circumstances will decide if this is a worthwhile product to purchase. Despite receiving some good reviews, I wonder what effect this stuff will have if some of the off-spray lands on the brake discs! I'll make sure that I'm ultra careful if I need to use it. As previously stated, I'll give some feedback on it's performance whenever the need arises.

Two years ago during the bad snow, most of the residents in my estate couldn't get their cars onto the main road for over a week. Our estate lies at the bottom of a steep hill which was never gritted despite numerous complaints being made to the roads department. It was very frustrating seeing the main roads well gritted and safe to drive on while numerous cars were stranded in the estate. Hopefully, this won't happen again but I purchased a can of tyre grip as an aid to get the car out of the estate onto the treated main roads. I didn't own a 4x4 two years ago and my Honda Civic couldn't cope with the conditions. I'm confident that my Yeti 4x4 with summer tyres should cope with a similar situation but I thought this product could be useful for the little Skoda CityGo that my wife drives. If and when it's used, I'll give some feedback.

Thanks for your replies.

Armayeti alas you are falling here into the trap many people with 4x4s fall into. The chances of your Yeti being able to tackle your road any better than your Civic is very low. Even with a 4x4 drivetrain. Just go read the many winter tyres threads to see how many people in humble little 2wd cars fitted with winter tyres drove rings around big Land Rovers and 4x4s stuck in the mildest of snow and ice with their summer tyres. It is grip that matters not how many wheels are driven... So in your case, this aerosol spray might work, but as Kenny R said above, it certainly won't help you in an emergency (when you might need the grip most).

Armayeti alas you are falling here into the trap many people with 4x4s fall into. The chances of your Yeti being able to tackle your road any better than your Civic is very low. Even with a 4x4 drivetrain. Just go read the many winter tyres threads to see how many people in humble little 2wd cars fitted with winter tyres drove rings around big Land Rovers and 4x4s stuck in the mildest of snow and ice with their summer tyres. It is grip that matters not how many wheels are driven... So in your case, this aerosol spray might work, but as Kenny R said above it certainly won't help you in an emergency (when you might need the grip most).

Completely agree after first hand experience.

We were in Germany in our Pug 306 1.9D with winter tyres on.

There was a Merc ML on english plates behind us that didn't look to have winter tyres on (we passed it previously).

We got to a turn which led onto a long road to the motorway up a slight hill.

We turned and went round the corner and accelerated up the road with no problems.

The merc, however was all over the place and slid on the bend and couldn't get decent reaction up the slope with all the other traffic passing them.

Basically, get winter tyres in stead of spray. You can't spray it on right before you need the traction round the bend or up the hill everytime!

Phil

Thanks again for your comments. I'll keep you updated.