I am wondering what you mean by 'all weather' tyres?

FWIW (and I've probably said this rather too many times already) we use 'all season' tyres on one of our cars. They are marked with the snowflake-triple-peak symbol so are suitable for use in European countries that require the use of winter tyres at certain times of the year or under certain weather conditions. We've found them to be good enough on snow and ice, enabling the car to go everywhere our other car with winter tyres has gone, (although maybe with not as much aplomb), while also being good during the UK summer months. For those that think such tyres are only appropriate to 'shopping trolleys', the particular car in question is an Alfa 3-litre V6 rwd.

These sound exactly what i want on my car when my current summer tyres are worn out. Will be fitting something like these to fronts only then to the rears when they wear out. Perfect. Or at least i hope so. I dont think Scotland justifies full winters but all weather tyres seem to be a good balance and it saves swapping them over during the year. TBH if the roads are that bad that all weather tyres and careful driving arent sufficient then should we really be attempting the journey?

When I looked at winter tyres versus all season tyres I went for the winter tyres because, I could get hold of a second set of wheels for a reasonable cost and I had somewhere to store the spare set of wheels. If I didn't have the space and couldn't get hold of a reasonable price set of wheels then I would have probably gone down the all season route.