Well the car now has some new shoes after only 1250ish miles! Toyo Proxes T1-R's - a quick look around the net shows these seem quite good

but they are supposed to be a winter tyre???:confused: thats what they are meant to be for but looking about i am really not so sure... the cars got 18" rims.

mark

Good in the wet and slush, but like most V-tread tyres probably not so good on snow.

On the Toyo website they are not listed as winter tyres. The winter tyre is the Snowprox range.

David

V tyres suck in the snow.

I know with my goodyear F1s - terrible. Not looing forward :(

so it looks like this may be some sort of mistake then?

so it looks like this may be some sort of mistake then?

Depends on where you actually drive in your car. As long as the roads you go on are ploughed and salted, you should be OK. Mine has Proxes on, and they were fine last winter as I never had to drive on fresh snow.

TBH, though, I wouldn't be happy driving on fresh snow with anything other than proper winter tyres like they use over on the Continent. I don't think there'd be any UK "all weather" tyre that would cut it on snow...

My Octy now has its winter boots on - Vredestein Wintracs. Bear in mind that winter tyres are not just for snow/slush. The rubber compound is better for cold weather than that of normal summer tyres.

well basically these tyres have replaced the 1500mile (as new) standard items supposedly as a winter substitute - it is part of the company car scheme. looking at the treads i'm beginning to wonder if the standard items would have done the job better...