I know it’s late, but I deliberately left them on long after the frost disappeared.

 

My plan is to avoid having to buy new summer tyres in year 3 just before the car gets turned in.

 

The original summer set will now run for 5 months or so and around 4,000 miles, then the winter set will run through till spring/summer 2019.

 

Maybe I’ll even turn the car in early and avoid it’s first MOT and any nasty service surprises.

 

Car ownership is a whole new game these days compared with Buy, Run, Service, Depreciate, Start Again!

Hi Boxer, did you notice any excessive or unusual wear on the winters when you did the changeover, and what do you use? I only changed from my Alpin 5s in May - but I only do about half your mileage.

The winter tyres are Kumho Izen. Acquired 2nd hand from here.

 

I’ve only had Continental in the past, but these popped up and performed ok.

 

In recent warmer times I did notice the winter tyres spun more easily on sharp take offs, e.g. one particular uphill cross road junction near me.  Only to be expected when temps are “greater than 7 DegC”.

 

Wear rates seem OK. Front pair clearly wore a bit more than rear pair, but lots of life to get through what I think will be their third winter next time.

i had Kumho fitted from skoda and they were poop.

10 hours ago, Warrior193 said:

Hi Boxer, did you notice any excessive or unusual wear on the winters when you did the changeover, and what do you use? I only changed from my Alpin 5s in May - but I only do about half your mileage.

 

I'm swapping to summer tyres this week.  In the warmer weather the car feels a little more floaty which  I put this down to the tyres having more natrual rubber in them.  Also the outer edges of the treads are starting to look rougher which I think is due to them wearing faster in the hotter weather .. there's nothing wrong with the tracking.

 

These are fairly standard characteristics based on running winters all year on my last Scout and a Quattro prior to that.  I've run a number of Winter tyres in the past Nankang, Toyo, Vrederstein and finally on my second set of Continentals.  The Nankangs were awful, Toyos and Vrederstein good and Contis very good.

 

 

I run my Michelin Pilot Alpin 4's until early May and generally speaking they're fine.

 

On my early morning commute to work temperatures can still be around 7°C or less at that time of year.  

 

 

I changed from winter to summers about 4 weeks ago, I should be able to get the remaining time (that I have with the car) & mileage out of the OEM tyres that the car came with to changeover.

Running my tyres down and plan on fitting Michelin CrossClimates. Had them before, and have them on the wife's Leon, not a full winter tyre nor summer tyre but save switching tyres round for the few days/weeks of bad snow we usually get.

My winter wheels/tyres going on in October will be Dezent 7.5J x 18 with P Zeroes 225/40 ZR18 tyres still rated for 186mph if we have a mild winter. At least they will be marginally more comfortable than the standard 225/35 ZR19 P Zeroes.!

21 hours ago, WallMeerkat said:

Running my tyres down and plan on fitting Michelin CrossClimates. Had them before, and have them on the wife's Leon, not a full winter tyre nor summer tyre but save switching tyres round for the few days/weeks of bad snow we usually get.

 

Fitted CrossClimates to mine a couple of months ago so never really got to test them in the cold weather but they seem to be doing their job well at the moment!