To those that switch, are you off your winters yet? I've held off so far as its not unheard of to get a drop and even snow this late in the winter/spring - otherwise, starting to feel like temps are averaging upwards these days - am I way behind the curve and everyone else is back on summer tyres? I read that 7 degrees is the switchover point, which feels low to me - but also there is still the odd frosty morning.

Then there's always the point that I'm overthinking it.

What are people's thoughts/habits?

I usually swap last weekend in October until the last weekend in March.
I'm in North Germany where winters/ all seasons are mandatory but IMO just go by the weather wherever you happent to be.
When I lived on the UK south coast I might change back in something like mid or even early March.

Just swapped both cars back in the last few days. My Fabia was a little later because it was 4/5/6 degrees in the early morning when I use it, my wife's Kodiaq a few days earlier because it was getting to 10/11 by the time she used the car.

November ish to mid/late March is about right . It isn't that critical - 7 degrees is the changeover point but it isn't a cliff edge - Winters are happy enough a little above and Summers are still OK a couple of degrees below.

Cheers chaps. Sounds like I’m in the window (London so basically warmest for UK). That’ll be a job for this weekend I think.

Obviously the All Season / Winter / Wet Weather / Summer tyre dates might well be a location location location thing and many around much of the UK might never have on Winters, or might keep them on all year if you are in and around the Cairngorms and are not going to ruin them even if the weather gets into the high 20,s Degree C.

Odd frosty mornings and sunlight can be anytime, and cold frosty nights or even freezing water on roads at night might be something that happens, not that means that people are going to bother if the have on High Performance Summer tyres, they might just drive with care / caution.

Maybe Lambing Snows coming for April in the North East of Scotland this year.

Edited 25 March, 20251 yr by Ootohere

I havn't put them on yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And that goes for the last 2 maybe 3 years.

Not one of my wiser purchases since moving to the sunnier South, in Northern France they may not have been essential every year but when you needed them boy did you need them!

Mine were rock hard and may have worked in snow but were lethal the rest of the time so when I saw a set of virtually new steel wheels and winter tyres on Facebook down here getting cheaper and cheaper I bought them for next to nothing.

Now I know why they could not sell them! If I were to still visit the ski slopes they would be needed, if ever we do get a bog snow fall I will use them, otherwise I will wait till my recent new tyres wear out which will be 60k+ miles based on the old ones, I bought the exact same.

If I had have fitted them this winter (we didn't actually have one!) then I would have refitted the normal tyres about 2 weeks ago, by that time the thousands of cranes has passed overhead returning from their migration route and the bees and wasps were buzzing around looking for holes to make nests in, that happens when the temperature remains above 10°c.

Cheers. We definitely have winter temps through Dec to Feb even where we are; but I was thinking we’re through the worst of it here. Will research the lambing snow thing to see if it’s relevant to the climate as far down here and we get a cold snap too

The Daily Express would have warned you of Snowmaggedon if there was a hint of even a child spilling a Frosty Drink down your way.

EDIT.

THEY HAVE, YOU WILL ALL FREEZE, & IN THE NORTH POWER WILL NEED RATIONED SO ENGLAND OR HEATHROW CAN FUNCTION.

Edited 26 March, 20251 yr by Ootohere

FWIW I use all seasons during winter and summers in summer. I generally switch back to summer at the end of April and back to all seasons at the end of October.

Probably keeping the all seasons on later than normally necessary but the in laws in Germany have been known to have snow in April so switching them at the end of the month effectively covers all bases and being all seasons it's not as if they're particularly compromised in warmer weather.

Thanks for that - I was originally going to run the winters and then switch to all-seasons, but given I've got the storage space and switching wheels stops me getting bored with the look of the car I thought I'd keep both sets of wheels; but yes does mean getting off the winters when the temps come up. Longer ranger forecast doesn't look like there is any cold snap aside from the odd overnight so still looks like about now.

Cheers all!

I used to swap mine round in November and Easter. However it has been known that we have a 'white Easter' with snow. I don't know what the predictions are for this year. I'd imagen it depends on the date. On my current car I use All-seasons, but still swap them around. I've run Cross-Climates and Goodyear 4 seasons. I have always thought the Michelins are a more summer biased tyre. I am not so sure after reading current tyre tests.

My dad has claimed in the 1960s he got Frostbite in Scotland at Mid August!

You'll be fine to do it now. I've been running PS5 all winter, and it's almost time to pick up some Yoko Adan's for track season!