« Reply #8 on: 25 September 2010, 13:37 »
Depends on which part of the UK you do your driving though. I live in the South West (England) and the temperature rarely stays below the 7 degrees recommended for winter tyres. So you then have the quandry of jacking the car up and changing wheels every day depending on whether there's a frost or not. You can see why people can't be arsed or aren't educated to run on winter tyres as it has been rare in recent history to actually need decent winter tyres. Apart from the last two winters I can't even remember the last time I had to buy a can of de-icer. Where I live even last winter we only had a couple of days of light snow all winter.
Coupled to that the average UK motorist is a f**king moron IMHO!
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