Winter Wheels and Tyres going on today...Not very cold yet, but it is that time of year again
I bought these in 2010...Audi A6 16" Alloys (£100 from ebay) and Kuhmo Winter Tyres (£46 each from Camskill...£40 to fit and balance)
Sprayed them but the elements have conspired since..so had them refurbished. (£16 each in powdercoat black) and £50 to refit and balance
This is the third winter now and they have been fantastic..Its great driving past stuck 4 wheel drive vehicles who have the wrong tyres fitted!!
Pictures fitted:

 

They look nice, i recently bought my 1st set off Fleabay a couple of months back, Uniroyal something or other with 6mm, on VW steels. Can't wait to try them out when the weather starts to deteriate and feel how different they are. I gotta be the only person round Heathrow way wishing for heavy snow this winter..

Edited 7 November, 201312 yr by Gazman

Sorry Chris and Gazman, the Met Office expects no significant frost nor snow at least before early December!

 

That is unless you live in Braemar which is quite a different matter from Slough!

I have no problem with that at all

Cold wet roads and more grip ....just don't drive too close in case I have to brake hard

Never trust the weathermen anyway

 

Painting my winters this weekend ready for fitting.

 

Yours look very nice Chris, could you not change out the centre caps though?

Looking good Chris.

Mine will be going on this weekend - if u get time. Organised a kids football tournament for Saturday.

Temperature constantly below 7 here (well according to Accuweather RealFeel).

Paul

Never trust the weathermen anyway

 

Painting my winters this weekend ready for fitting.

 

Yours look very nice Chris, could you not change out the centre caps though?

I cant find any that fit....Believe me Ive tried!!! ...

Seems only Audi ones will fit owing to the shape of the alloy centre

So now......I'm not really bothered about the Audi caps

Fitting mine this weekend. Skoda dealer only charging 20 quid to swap tyres over as it will be in for its first mot at the same time.

Stick some Skoda badges over the Audi caps - you don't want to ruin your Skoda with an inferior marque

My are going on next week, best thing I ever bought apart from the Vrs

 

Car looks well Chris

I fitted mine today,they are 16" audi alloys,i thought my skoda centre cap would fit the audi wheels but no,hole is much bigger so audi centre caps it is then! 

I'm sure I asked this on another post, however will the wheel nuts for standard elegance alloys be ok to use with steel wheels, or will they be to long and I need to get spacers, or shorter bolts??

They'll be fine  . I assume you spare is a steel wheel

They'll be fine  . I assume you spare is a steel wheel

No my spare's an alloy..

I'm sure I asked this on another post, however will the wheel nuts for standard elegance alloys be ok to use with steel wheels, or will they be to long and I need to get spacers, or shorter bolts??

 

They should be fine.  OEM steels and OEM alloys both use radiused bolts, some after-market alloys need tapered bolts

 

They should be fine.  OEM steels and OEM alloys both use radiused bolts, some after-market alloys need tapered bolts

 

Thanks for the info, much appreciated :-)

My spare is a steel & i used the same wheel bolts when i fitted that when i had a punchure in one of my alloys. 

My rubber is being changed on Saturday to cold weather Avons and I'm in Yorkshire too - commuting at 7am so on the frost.

Well it was 6c where i live this am and i think that was the exception, being west of London i dont expect my winters to go on until maybe mid december..

Putting mine on soon too. I have a set of Audi A4 alloys from ebay and a new set of Kumho KW27s. Does anyone know can I use the skoda wheel nuts with the Audi Alloys? 

Essentially same question as trundlenut only my ebay purchased wheels are Mk1 Seat Leon Cupra Sport wheels.

 

Up until now I had foolishly assumed that as they are VAG 5x100 then they should be ok.

Putting mine on soon too. I have a set of Audi A4 alloys from ebay and a new set of Kumho KW27s. Does anyone know can I use the skoda wheel nuts with the Audi Alloys? 

I used my normal skoda wheel bolts when i fitted my Audi alloys.

Yes...Same wheel bolts..No problems at all

I'm gonna have to sort mine tomorrow, my Conti SC2s are done and the traction control was flat out busy keeping me in a straight line on what was a cold and slightly greasy road. I have received plenty of abuse for giving winters a go and I'm sure it will get worse with every day in the winter that doesn't have snow/ice/frost/temp. under 10 degrees, but if you never try you never know.

Essentially same question as trundlenut only my ebay purchased wheels are Mk1 Seat Leon Cupra Sport wheels.

Up until now I had foolishly assumed that as they are VAG 5x100 then they should be ok.

Watch out this is a multi Chorlton forum. Though I do have Audi wheels for my winter tyres...

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