Rolfe
Have you had your winter tyres fitted yet? If so what did you get and how do you find them?
Got them yesterday.
The car was due its first service, so I just asked the garage to fit some winter tyres while it was in there. I have 17s anyway so I didn't see any reason for new actual wheels. In the event they just changed the front ones. Whether this is wise or not, time will tell I suppose.
I did look at the tyres, but the name on them didn't ring an immediate bell and I ain't going out right now to write it down!
The ride seems noticeably smoother and quieter than with the summer tyres. It was very frosty and slippy this morning, but although I did note the ABS coming on momentarily, once, there was no loss of traction (as I had experienced in similar weather a couple of weeks ago).
The slight shock was being told that my summer tyres, the original Bridgestones, were so barely legal (after just under 13,000 miles) that they weren't worth putting back on, so make sure to order new summer tyres come spring. Then followed spiel about performance cars, automatic transmission and wheelspin.
Rolfe.
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