I've just bought new winter wheels Oz 19" 235/35 Nokia Hakka 8.

And the old winter will be left in garage this year

I looked at those Oz wheels too - albeit in 17" - very smart.

When is best to buy winter tyres? Fine line between production starting then demand taking over

Now!

Now!

No guarantee you will get fresh tyres, could well be last year's stock. New ones appear in early October which seems to be before the prices go up.

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Don't buy used of ebay with 4mm this is when they are illegal to use in parts of EU.

If most of your driving is in Herts I would suggest good quality all season tyres such as Quatrac 3's. Have a mountain/snowflakesymbol.

I am guessing that the majority of UK users will know no difference.

 

Just make sure as with any tyre that when going into winter you have a good amount of trad not the pathetic legal minimum we have in the UK

Edited 31 August, 201411 yr by loskie

No guarantee you will get fresh tyres, could well be last year's stock. New ones appear in early October which seems to be before the prices go up.

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Noticed on occasion Oponeo give approx dates and country of manufacture against a specific tyre. Beginning of this month I bought some Uniroyal MS77 for our Rapid and the listing stated April this year made in Portugal (Continental factory); sure enough they were correct, three tyres were dated WK1814 (April/May) and one WK1914 (May).

 

 

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Seeing as they will only last 3-4 winters tops, does it really matter if they are this years or last years stock?

 

You want to be binning your winters when they have less than 4-5mm tread anyway.

I seem to recall that once the new stock comes in prices drop at first. Also I like the ideas that the tyres have been sitting around for a year somewhere.

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Seeing as they will only last 3-4 winters tops, does it really matter if they are this years or last years stock?

 

You want to be binning your winters when they have less than 4-5mm tread anyway.

Nah, just wear them out during the summer.

Nah, just wear them out during the summer.

To increase your stopping distances over a standard tyre? Kind of counter productive really.

As 3 winters tops for winters it doesn't matter if they were manufactured last year. My 2014 car has tyres made in 2013.

To increase your stopping distances over a standard tyre? Kind of counter productive really.

does it? Not in my experience. But we won't go there again eh.

Just to be clear, can I fit 17" on my mkIII vRS (hatch)?

If so would the tyres be 205/45/17?

Pricing up a set of 18"s comes to £450 for the alloys and £560 for tyres so if I can drop the price a bit that would be good

The standard VRS wheel in Europe is the 17" Dorado with 225/45R17 tyres. There is also a winter alternative which is 205/50R17. The filler cap has the alternatives.

Just to be clear, can I fit 17" on my mkIII vRS (hatch)?

If so would the tyres be 205/45/17?

Pricing up a set of 18"s comes to £450 for the alloys and £560 for tyres so if I can drop the price a bit that would be good

You can get TUV approved 17" winter alloys that have a 5 year finish warranty set of four wheels from ~£270 delivered...

http://www.tyreleader.co.uk/alloy-car-wheels/skoda/octavia-combi/octavia-combi-5e5-59680?p=1&filter_m=5&filter_tu=T&filter_s=&orderby=pop

cheers, Steve

If you are just driving in the UK, why bother with winter tyres?

these will be going on mine again this year.....

If you are just driving in the UK, why bother with winter tyres?

After driving in the snow on Goodyear Eagle F1s?: because I don't want to be dead.

 

 

 

If you're on Summer tyres during the summer, then winter tyres in the winter seems a no-brainer. Maybe less of a need if you're on all season tyres already, but that's personal preference.

Edited 9 September, 201411 yr by Mort

If you are just driving in the UK, why bother with winter tyres?

the only reason is when you get up at 3.30am first on the roads to get to work as this greets you ..........oh! bugger

If you are just driving in the UK, why bother with winter tyres?

Some people choose to. Just put it down to personal choice and don't let it bother you so much. Then for the sake of your blood pressure just ignore all the threads that have winter tyres in their title. ;)

Its no bother, it just seems odd!

I don't understand why anyone would want a winter set of wheels and tyres unless of course they were the the same design as the normal set. Surely if you've specced / picked or chosen a car a car with wheels you like, you wouldn't want to have different ones on the car for perhaps 40% of the time you have it? I fully understand having winter tyres, and have had them myself, but only ever fitted to the cars normal wheels.

A change is nice sometimes, winter tyres are best narrower and a narrow rim helps, keep a set of summer rims pristine, and cost (Skoda OEM rims are costly).

..... and isn't good to keep removing and refitting tyres - you risk damaging the tyres and the rim

Never used them, never will. Waste of time and money in this country. We have had two bad winters in the last how many?? Winter tyres would have made bugger all difference to the journey i attempted two years ago. I just looked at the conditions and turned around and went home.

 

Makes me laugh.. a bloke I know obsesses over WINTER TYRES AND WHEELS.. Last year he had them on his Audi well into to May in the desperate but futile hope that he could justify the expense in an annoyingly anoraky way.