I cannot use alternative alloys as my brakes are too big!

That just means you can't benefit from the reduced price of smaller tyres!

You could of course buy larger 'winter' wheels Alan....

im still using winters, last night it was -1 degree here and the roads were heavily salted.

 

Id like to jump into what seems like an IAM lecture “on safe driving” as I am one of the “chosen” people who drive a VRS…….oh my god a VRS I hear you cry, yes that’s why I block capital VRS, wow tell me more oh wonderful owner of a sort of tepidly fast luke warm hatchback I hear you cry.

 

Here it goes

 

What a load of crap the last page was…..listening to owners of **** box taxis preach about car control and wheel spin. **** me ive had pencil sharpeners with a better power to weight ratio than the owners cars. Who really gives a **** if you wheel spin, be it off the line or in 3^rd gear coming out a corner (Ive actually managed to make it spin all the way into 4^th but im a driving God of course that’s why I drive VRS). As long as you control it, I hardly think the wheel spin described is tyre shredding burn out wheel spin.

 

Someone indirectly asked us godly VRS owners a question, no it wasn’t how much should I get out of a tank or how do I get my heated mirrors on or what’s this rattle coming from the inside left passengers door card or anything mundane and completely **** as that that makes you want to kill yourself reading it.

I quote “Do all the VRS owners out there actively RELY on TC because they accelerate too hard? No, of course they don't. It all comes down to the way they drive the cars to the limits they are capable of, regardless of what tyres are fitted.”

 

Any yes this man is completely correct…..

 

I of course I don’t rely on TC (traction control to people who don’t stay at the YMCA) as I don’t use the ******* thing in the first place…….

 

I must be a complete danger on the road “driving the car beyond its limit” as im continually spinning up the front and have the tyres screech quite awesomely in the corners, exceed the speed limits quite regularly and continually have the back out in the wet greasy roads just now. Let’s be frank even with my remapped vrs its hardly ******* quick is it.

 

I know what your all thinking shocking isn’t it…….how can he have the back out so much with such a **** inaccessible handbrake I mean its two clicks and the ****er just doesn’t want to lock up the rear at all regardless of how hard and fast you pull the head of it……. lift off over steer people, lift off over steer.

 

Oh and as for winter tyres. Yes, im sure winter tyres pull up in a shorter distant and have more grip blah blah but **** me you don’t REALLY need them for a winter unless you live in a rural part of Scotland. I wouldn’t have a set again and I live in Scotland…..mind you its not rural but its quaint…

Edited 12 March, 201412 yr by moanthebairns

Yep, winter tyres are only useful in the sticks

 

"Oh and as for winter tyres. Yes, im sure winter tyres pull up in a shorter distant and have more grip blah blah but **** me you don’t REALLY need them for a winter unless you live in a rural part of Scotland. "

 

Sorry but if they offer better stopping distances in cold weather than 'summers', and 'summers' offer better grip in temps above 7 degrees or so, then you might not 'need' them to have a fulsome life but I do not see why you need to say 'blah blah' which sounds disdainful - I admit this could be the email 'lost in translation' effect

 

I do not see it as having them on in winter, more a case of using the best tool for the prevailing conditions.

 

We stopped centimetres short of several tonnes of tree after we were run off the road last year by an idiot, I am not sure we'd have stopped before the tree had we been on the 'summers'.

 

 

Yep, winter tyres are only useful in the sticks

 

 

**** I could have got that out tis but a sprinkling of snow

 

I managed with a van for 3 years with 40 quid a corner tyres....

Of course you could, you are a "driving God" remember

Come on Guys...lets not turn this into a slanging match!!.....and who can drive better..Pathetic

Choice is choice...I took mine off 3 weeks ago

The long range forecast, whilst not being ultra reliable is trending away from Winter like conditions, unlike this time last year

So...its everyones choice what they do.

Every winter tyre thread heads the same way, nothing said or done will change that.

"runs outside to quickly remove snow socks and chains"

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Edited 12 March, 201412 yr by stever750

Was about to take mine off, but it's got cold again. 4 degrees here this morning. Similar or lower forecast for the next week. Planning to return to my summers Sat 22nd March.

Will be good to see the alloys again though!

I'm planning on running my winters for a while. Firstly, there's about 3mm left, so no use next winter. Secondly, they're quieter and grip better period than the ultracs sessantas I've got waiting in the garage for warmer days. Big mistake they were, massively inferior to the OE fitted contis in almost every way.

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Edited 12 March, 201412 yr by stever750

Winters got to come off some time soon for me, Birmingham, and needing at least two new summers, still got two Continental SportContact 2 with decent tread, previously fiited to the rears. Now what to do; fit the old Continentals to the fronts, and two new tyres to the rears, or buy four new tyres, also, thinking, can't go wrong with Goodyear Efficient Grip Performance 18" on a vRS? What's the best price people have found the Goodyears at?

Of course you could, you are a "driving God" remember

 

I hope people got the fact I was taking the ****..............................................as a few dry comments after made me wonder.

Mine (well the car's) are probably coming off at the weekend, and based on last year's experience a prolonged drop in temperature will occurr within....oh about 5 minutes

 

And then they are off the steels and onto the alloys I found lurking on ebay last weekend I am not the most aesthetically minded person on earth but looking at the car as the plastic covers got marked and chipped really started to grate. So the summer project is tidying up up the 'new' alloys and then watching them corrode next winter...... :think: 

I usual the original 18" alloys with winter tyres on. Wheels are still like new after 3 years and 54k miles. Just clean them at least once a week and even clean the inside of them every time I wash the car as well. Alloys will only corrode if they get damaged...ie kerbing etc. Don't understand why everyone says that they get "ruined" over the winter. Couldn't put up with the look of steel wheels on mine!

I hope people got the fact I was taking the ****..............................................as a few dry comments after made me wonder.

 

Read more like a rant to me. The problem with the written word I guess.

 

Might be a good idea to keep it light hearted inside of "taking the p**s".

 

I've never seen so many censored words in one post!

-1, a frozen screen and and thick fog this morning on the way to work.

 

11 degree's and beautiful sunshine on the way home!

-1, a frozen screen and and thick fog this morning on the way to work.

 

11 degree's and beautiful sunshine on the way home!

 

Its it the curse of 'going public' I am sure. I write yesterday that Matilda is going all summery this weekend, and its flippin' freezing cycling to work this morning

Now what to do; fit the old Continentals to the fronts, and two new tyres to the rears, or buy four new tyres

The first option. No point throwing away perfectly good tyres.

Winters got to come off some time soon for me, Birmingham, and needing at least two new summers, still got two Continental SportContact 2 with decent tread, previously fiited to the rears. Now what to do; fit the old Continentals to the fronts, and two new tyres to the rears, or buy four new tyres, also, thinking, can't go wrong with Goodyear Efficient Grip Performance 18" on a vRS? What's the best price people have found the Goodyears at?

 

I just paid £101 fitted at a local tyre fitter

I am on summers now and thank ****

 

4 brand new vierdiesteins (or however you spell it) and it feels soooooooooooooooooooooo much better.

 

no constant tyre noise, grip, not tyre shredding wheel spin when you put the foot down

 

I don't think id ever bother with winters ever again, sure I bet they are great in the snow but when its snowing I just walk to work...

 

even with it being below 7 when I used them it was like driving about on the cut slicks I have on my track bike except these didn't grip anywhere near as good

I am on summers now and thank ****

 

4 brand new vierdiesteins (or however you spell it) and it feels soooooooooooooooooooooo much better.

 

no constant tyre noise, grip, not tyre shredding wheel spin when you put the foot down

 

I don't think id ever bother with winters ever again, sure I bet they are great in the snow but when its snowing I just walk to work...

 

even with it being below 7 when I used them it was like driving about on the cut slicks I have on my track bike except these didn't grip anywhere near as good

What winter tyres were those then?

 

My Nokian winter tyres (225/45-17) have better grip than the summer Conti's (225/40-18) in lower temperatures, especially on wet roads.  I certainly didn't suffer from wheel spin and the Nokians were quieter than the Conti's and gave a better ride.

I don't have any grip issues with my winter tyres on and they're quieter than my summers.

 

What brand were they and how much tread did they have left? Were they directionals on backwards (seen that coming out of a tyre fitter).

Only grip issues I've had winter tyres is when it's been really warm, like 15 degrees.

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falkens, brand new I wouldn't have bought falkens but came with the car

they were fine at a normal pace but when you started pushing horrendous

they only really seemed to work below 3 degrees