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Tim in Scotland Member Since: 30 May 2005 Location: Driving along in my automobile Posts: 17476 |
Although I am running Pirelli Zeros with 4mm on them at the moment and have a set of Pirelli Snow and Ice tyres sat in the garage I have had no problems with the weather over the last few days. Even Tuesday night on the M74 when lots of other cars were getting stuck and people were even abandoning their cars, the TDv8 on it's standard 20" Pirellis and the TR kept me moving. My problem was knowing when to switch back from GGS to Highway on the TR! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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Thu Dec 24 2009 4:23pm |
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zoo Member Since: 05 Sep 2009 Location: London Posts: 95 |
Just came over the Whilatter pass on Pzeros - breeze.
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Thu Dec 24 2009 4:51pm |
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simonsti Member Since: 29 Apr 2006 Location: staffs Posts: 193 |
I have used HDC a few times now on really steep slippy roads and it is a real godsend. Last year on the standard conti's i got stuck in the snow on a steep icy/snowy hill and slid backwards into another stuck car, but i only had about 3mm on them, this year the yokohamas with 6mm+ were deadly. 2014 Nara Bronze SDV6
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Thu Dec 24 2009 7:52pm |
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Alicatt Member Since: 11 Jun 2007 Location: Eating in Eksel or Ice cold in Alex Posts: 1435 |
I put the MT/Rs on the car before comng over to Scotland last week and I'm glad I did. I had no problems at all getting up to John o' Groats even with towing a trailer. There were a lot of abandoned cars on the verge and I past a couple of cars struggling on the hills, one of them you could see his zig zag tracks all the way up the hill! It did take a long time to get north but it was an easy trip in the RRS. Coming south was a diffrent matter it was not the car but the blizzard that was blowing that made it difficult at points I was looking out the side window to get a reference to where I was going, I left a day early just to be sure I could make it back to the ferry and I'm glad I did as the roads were closed the next morning. In all that snow I was using GGS mode and kept the 4x4 info display up and not once did I see the diffs lock, tonight going into Peer and on thier cobbled streets the rear diff lock was on and off like nobodys business, on the single track road back towards the house I had to pull over on to the verge which was 20cm deep with snow I gunned the car back onto the road, with 2 wheels on the road and 2 in the snow, the rear diff locked and I went forward like a rocket Sons of dogs come hither and get flesh
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Sun Dec 27 2009 5:54pm |
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AJS4X4 Member Since: 28 May 2008 Location: Surrey Posts: 286 |
The Wintrac 4 Xtreme is a great tyre, selling loads with this snow about.
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Tue Dec 29 2009 12:00pm |
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Red1903 Member Since: 25 Jan 2009 Location: North East Scotland Posts: 156 |
Like the man says |
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Tue Dec 29 2009 5:48pm |
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C10KO Member Since: 04 Jan 2009 Location: . . . searching . . . Posts: 1136 |
I can not agree more. Have had them on for the last two seasons and they have not let me down |
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Tue Dec 29 2009 6:20pm |
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Josh Member Since: 24 Dec 2005 Location: Here, there and everywhere Posts: 2054 |
Andy, Are those Quatrac 3 SUV tyres any good? If so they could be a good compromise for all year use in the UK. And are they suitable for the weight of the RRS? Do they have 20"? Sorry loads of Q's. TDV6 - gone TDV8 - gone Audi Q5 3.0 Tdi Sline wef 6/11/10 |
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Wed Dec 30 2009 7:34am |
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