Winter Tyres

[Snoopy]

19" black alloys well they look the same anyway 
I actually quite like that look.

A car with steel wheels looks far better than a car parked in a lamp-post.

Anyone that runs polished lacquered wheels in snowy winter conditions is simply nuts imo.

[Ess_Three]

A car with steel wheels looks far better than a car parked in a lamp-post.

Amen to that.

Anyone that runs polished lacquered wheels in snowy winter conditions is simply nuts imo.

Amen to that too.
Polished lacquered wheels + ice & snow + grip = recipe for white worm by Spring.

[gizzywizzy]

I've decided going to go with some OEM alloys in 16".  To be honest in winter I don't give a toss about looks, I'd rather get where I'm going alive than arriving at the pearly gates some years too early.

I thank you all for your advice especially Glen who knows what he's on about.  I once got caught in a snowdrift out at Insch in a Vauxhall Nova, it was a bloody nightmare tho that had narrow tyres on if I remember correctly and so mad life a tad easier.

[Hartside]

Gizzywizzy, take the speed rating up from "T" to "H". H is the VW recommended speed rating for the GTI on 16"

[gizzywizzy]

Gizzywizzy, take the speed rating up from "T" to "H". H is the VW recommended speed rating for the GTI on 16"

Righto thanks.

[Ess_Three]

I've decided going to go with some OEM alloys in 16".  To be honest in winter I don't give a toss about looks, I'd rather get where I'm going alive than arriving at the pearly gates some years too early.

Wise words...

I thank you all for your advice especially Glen who knows what he's on about. 

You are too kind. I try...

I once got caught in a snowdrift out at Insch in a Vauxhall Nova, it was a bloody nightmare tho that had narrow tyres on if I remember correctly and so mad life a tad easier.

Insch?
Not Insch, Aberdeenshire surely?
Nova...there was a car! I loved mine...it was 20 years ago mind.

[gizzywizzy]

I've decided going to go with some OEM alloys in 16".  To be honest in winter I don't give a toss about looks, I'd rather get where I'm going alive than arriving at the pearly gates some years too early.

Wise words...

I thank you all for your advice especially Glen who knows what he's on about. 

You are too kind. I try...

I once got caught in a snowdrift out at Insch in a Vauxhall Nova, it was a bloody nightmare tho that had narrow tyres on if I remember correctly and so mad life a tad easier.

Insch?
Not Insch, Aberdeenshire surely?
Nova...there was a car! I loved mine...it was 20 years ago mind.

Yes Insch in Aberdeenshire, father in law at the time lived at Old Rayne and we often spent time there, sister in law still lives in Kingsgate so I still have my ties with the Granite city.
It is also about 20 years since I bombed around in my little 1.2 Nova, it was a nippy little bugger for its time.

[am1w]

Bloody Hell: My first car was a dark blue Nova in the mid-seventies!
So much in common with you guys but so far apart.

[gizzywizzy]

Bloody Hell: My first car was a dark blue Nova in the mid-seventies!
So much in common with you guys but so far apart.

LOL, for it's time the Nova was a grand little car.

[Snoopy]

Well my main winter car the sh!tsu now has its 145x80x13 winter tyres on ready for the snow starting tonight. Come on the snow  (sh!tsu is why the mk6 has 17" winter tyres on and not 16s  )