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<blockquote data-quote="hexah" data-source="post: 723988" data-attributes="member: 333852">I think I will be getting All Season M+S tyres soon. My 'new' (ie 'pre-loved' for years by someone else) car has townie summer tyres which fill me with dread. I have been driving on dodgy country roads since I started driving and have always got tyres to suit. Over the last 10 years or so, the people in the tyre places have been telling me I didn't need new tyres when the treads were below 3mm, except the fitters who lived in the country themselves! The tyres I got in the olden days were much better in liquid mud, horse and cow shit, and black ice than these summer tyres. I think the old tyres were more sticky as well as knobbly, they did wear down more quickly but that was not a problem - I'd rather live to see another day and get down the bendy roads and hills in one piece. A gritter is as rare as hens teeth here, and is useless against black ice anyway.Heavy frost started in September, black ice in October (and will go on till early April with the low sun and long nights), so now is the time for the car sized holes in hedges to start appearing...The Skodas are well designed for the cold! Some people might still mock them but they are very reliable. I wonder if the modern tyres are part of the reason so many vehicles were stuck, or maybe no idea of winterizing?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hexah, post: 723988, member: 333852"] I think I will be getting All Season M+S tyres soon. My 'new' (ie 'pre-loved' for years by someone else) car has townie summer tyres which fill me with dread. I have been driving on dodgy country roads since I started driving and have always got tyres to suit. Over the last 10 years or so, the people in the tyre places have been telling me I didn't need new tyres when the treads were below 3mm, except the fitters who lived in the country themselves! The tyres I got in the olden days were much better in liquid mud, horse and cow shit, and black ice than these summer tyres. I think the old tyres were more sticky as well as knobbly, they did wear down more quickly but that was not a problem - I'd rather live to see another day and get down the bendy roads and hills in one piece. A gritter is as rare as hens teeth here, and is useless against black ice anyway. Heavy frost started in September, black ice in October (and will go on till early April with the low sun and long nights), so now is the time for the car sized holes in hedges to start appearing... The Skodas are well designed for the cold! Some people might still mock them but they are very reliable. I wonder if the modern tyres are part of the reason so many vehicles were stuck, or maybe no idea of winterizing? [/QUOTE]

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