Hi guys.

Greetings from Sweden.

I do not know if you use winter tires?

But here it is a must,I bought ordinary steel rims (wheels) powder coated them and made some hubcaps.

Put on the best studded tires,,,,,,,now I am waiting for the snow

Welcome.

Nice and so is the car at the rear.

 

A we taste of winter is arriving in the North of the UK this week, but nothing that needs the fitting of studded tyres.   Have fun.

That looks to be a nice 'project' car at the rear. 

Here in Germany it is only a requirement for the tyres to have the alpine symbol on.

 

Since we have mild winters then I just went for all season tyres.

My cars in "the rear"

I wish for mild winters,,,,,,this is from the back of my house in 2009! 

I think it'd be an extremely good idea to start a new thread in the projects section as those two cars would certainly attract a lot of attention.

That's no ordinary home garage,  with an air line on a runner and lifting beam bolted to the ceiling!

Hey @hansen1 those rims are great! I bought some old MK2 alloy rims for the winter, but yours look much better  I've just started to think about replacing them with the steel ones as your   

 

I moved from the factory 225/50/17 to 215/60/16 for the winter.

 

I'm surprised that you don't drive AWD model in Sweden .

 

Here is a pic of my winter set

12 minutes ago, fr1nklyn said:

Hey @hansen1 those rims are great! I bought some old MK2 alloy rims for the winter, but yours look much better  I've just started to think about replacing them with the steel ones as your   

 

I moved from the factory 225/50/17 to 215/60/16 for the winter.

 

I'm surprised that you don't drive AWD model in Sweden .

 

Here is a pic of my winter set

Hey fr1nklyn.

I liked the old style the steel rims have.And like you I moved from factory 205/55/16 to 195/65/15.

Never had any problem with 2WD,,,,,,yet!

You just need to get a non branded set of round black bolt covers to avoid these silver/grey summer ones getting wiped/ripped off by the snow/slush/ice?    Like on VW Polo etc that have a hole in the centre to place a hook on to remove when they are recessed? Or a set of chemi blackened bolts and security bolt?

 

Certainly getting them powder coated should avoid what quickly happened to the first steel wheels I bought for my wife's 2002 Polo, the paint disappeared very quickly and they rusted badly, but I covered that up by buying a cheap set of Golf trims for them - easier to clean in winter!

rum4mo, funny that you thought of the bolt covers,noted for one hour ago that I have lost one of them!

I will definitely buy some black ones.

I measured the paint thickness on the rims then I bought them,only 35-50 thousands of millimeters.

In my world that is a joke (I am a powder painter)

So I applied a thick coat of glossy black+clear coat,now the paint thickness is between 175-250 thousands of millimeter.

2 hours ago, hansen1 said:

Hey fr1nklyn.

I liked the old style the steel rims have.And like you I moved from factory 205/55/16 to 195/65/15.

Never had any problem with 2WD,,,,,,yet!

 

It's always better with higher and narrower tires in the snow :P Studded tires aren't allowed here, but the winter ones are mandatory from Nov 15th till Mar.

 

@rum4mo good point about the bolt covers, especially if they threat the roads with salt in your region.

fr1nklyn

 

Back in the day i could buy 155/70/15 snowtires, they worked really fine.

1 hour ago, hansen1 said:

Back in the day i could buy 155/70/15 snowtires, they worked really fine.

 

That would be overkill

205/55R16 Hakka 9s here been on for at least a month... +3 today, snow was lying this morning and more due tomorrow....

 

59 minutes ago, brettikivi said:

205/55R16 Hakka 9s here been on for at least a month... +3 today, snow was lying this morning and more due tomorrow....

 

 

Another set of studded tires huh?   I guess they are needed more than AWD in Scandinavian countries?

 

It was -11 and -7 in the last few nights here and we got some snow, but warmer weather is coming in the next couple of weeks.

the octy is a 1.0TSI. no AWD needed on the motorway  

 

but if you want fun then AWD helps enormously! Our SX4 S-Cross needs testing properly this winter.... that runs Hakka 8s, as does the A2.

 

 - Bret

Good studded winter tires are more important than 4WD

I guess this is especially true when you have “On Demand” AWD like the Haldex system :)

Ha, seeing Dalsland brings back memories of Ed

 

Should ping @Jaco2k and then go look at the video I should have finished already last month...

 

- Bret

 

 

brettikivi

SYKES?

I now live in the hills above Matlock in Derbyshire and we had a brief period of heavy snow which began to settle. 

 

I have a full set of Goodyear Vector 4 Seasons Gen 2 which I had from new in February. Ideal tyres for UK which mostly gets mild winters. They performed superbly on the snowy roads yesterday. 

 

 

Edited 5 December, 20205 yr by Doctor_Strange

@Doctor_Strange

Funny,,you have more snow than me right now.

 

1 minute ago, hansen1 said:

@Doctor_Strange

Funny,,you have more snow than me right now.

 

 

It's melted now 😂