[Beemer5to3]

Anyone running winter tyres this winter? (Or in general!)

If so, what's your setup? Completely new wheels or just swapping tyres over?

I'm buying a set of 790's and will be going for Kumho Wintercraft WP71.

[ramparts]

Originally Posted by Beemer5to3

Anyone running winter tyres this winter? (Or in general!)

If so, what's your setup? Completely new wheels or just swapping tyres over?

I'm buying a set of 790's and will be going for Kumho Wintercraft WP71.

I've never needed them tbh.

In the last 17 years of driving, I've only ever had 1 day where the snow was bad enough, that I'm not sure ever winters would have helped.

Went straight over a junction trying to brake twice, and when turned a medium bend at 10mph car went straight on.

Admittedly, I was 22 at the time, and it was a Corolla haha

[Soul_Glo]

My pirelli sotto zero 3 have seen me through 2 winters so far and probably have life in them for another 2-3.

[Blackers]

Originally Posted by Beemer5to3

Anyone running winter tyres this winter? (Or in general!)

If so, what's your setup? Completely new wheels or just swapping tyres over?

I'm buying a set of 790's and will be going for Kumho Wintercraft WP71.

Yes, will be running winter tyres on my 330e, it regularly gets under 5 degrees in Scotland so makes sense.

I fitted ContiWinterContact TS830P, last winter and will put them back on in late October.


https://www.tyrereviews.co.uk/Tyre/C...t-TS-830-P.htm

[Cranester1983]

I would very much like to have winters on and i put them on my wife's Skoda Kodiaq - but as my 330e is a company car, and the company won't pay for winter tyres (or the rims to go with them) I would rather just leave the G20 on the driveway on bad weather days. Sad really - wish they would!

[shanemeh]

Nope never needed them here. If it does snow really bad I wouldn't even attempt to go out driving anyway.

[PauloBairn]

Was thinking of going full winter myself. Had Cross Climates on a previous car but that was low powered FWD and having done a wee bit of research, common wisdom is to go for full winters with BMW. Favourite for me so far is a set of 17 inch black Borbet with Good Year Ultra Grip performance + from Mr Winter Wheels. Anybody have experience with that set up and how it looked/looks on the car.

[FrostNixon]

Depends on the weather, however here it snows heavily, thus I always have separate winter rims and tyres. Also the winters are always smaller and thinner for better performance, might not be needed but it makes me sleep better, so why not.

[Silverage2]

I was thinking about it for mine as an experiment to see how much the ride changed going from 19” wheels with runflats to 17” wheels without. With my luck, first day out without the runflats I’d pickup a puncture and be stranded.

[SkierM]

Hi

I am considering getting winter tyres for my G21 Touring. Car is a 320d X-Drive currently on 18 inch run flats front and rear (225/45 R18 front and 225/40 R18 rear).

I really don’t want to have to go to the expense of having to buy another set of rims - can I just buy a set of winter tyres that fit my existing wheels?

Regards

[Tam the Bam]

Originally Posted by SkierM

Hi

I am considering getting winter tyres for my G21 Touring. Car is a 320d X-Drive currently on 18 inch run flats front and rear (225/45 R18 front and 225/40 R18 rear).

I really don’t want to have to go to the expense of having to buy another set of rims - can I just buy a set of winter tyres that fit my existing wheels?

Regards

Yes you can..... same size tyres and just pay to get them swapped.

[NanasBack]

People who have the option of not going out, when they open the curtains and see the white flakes, are very lucky, ducky.

A lot of people do mucho travel and may be two hundres miles away from the homely, when the weather decides to make the country like failrytale Christmas scene.

This man needs the winter rubber.

I, having done both jobs, rubber on off and wheels on off, the wheels on off is better.
You can do this yourself if you buy jack.
Jack cost half the price of one tyre-fitter swap job.

If wheel-rim kerb damage is your normal, well maybe rubber on off is also ok.
Swapping tyres does not nice stuff to your rim.

If you like your rim, wheel on off is more pleasant.

Hope this helps.

[OM3RTA]

Originally Posted by NanasBack

People who have the option of not going out, when they open the curtains and see the white flakes, are very lucky, ducky.

A lot of people do mucho travel and may be two hundres miles away from the homely, when the weather decides to make the country like failrytale Christmas scene.

This man needs the winter rubber.

I, having done both jobs, rubber on off and wheels on off, the wheels on off is better.
You can do this yourself if you buy jack.
Jack cost half the price of one tyre-fitter swap job.

If wheel-rim kerb damage is your normal, well maybe rubber on off is also ok.
Swapping tyres does not nice stuff to your rim.

If you like your rim, wheel on off is more pleasant.

Hope this helps.

I agree with this 100%.

Going just rubber on the same wheel will add up to more than a new set of decent aftermarkets and rubber if you get a tyre fitter to do them from season to season and if you go and save that bit of extra cash by fitting the winter rubber to the same wheels on your own you'll quickly find it becomes tiresome(pun intended) & you'll wish you had just went with the new wheels & tyres combo as it's so much easier and quicker to do.

[FrostNixon]

Yeap, agree with the comments above. I've been changing rims manually for the past 7 years and by now it takes me less than an hour,and that's everything manually, no gun or stuff like that.
Additionally you get the benefit of smaller and narrower winter tyres for better grip.

[stewaran25]

I have a spare set of rims, and usually swap beginning of December.

I find when the temp gets down to zero even without snow they perform a lot better under breaking.

[B6WAF]

If you can afford the initial outlay then I highly recommend buying a full set of winter wheels & tyres. I've done this since winter 2012 and not regretted it. We don't get THAT much snow where I live, but without them I wouldn't get off my estate.

I've just ordered a new set of 18" 796Ms with Pirelli rubber for a touch over £2k. I'll keep them 3 years, put about 10k miles on them and sell them for at least £1,000 which means it has cost me £350 per winter to get about safely. If that saves me replacing a couple of my original summer tyres during my 3 years of ownership (because they're off the road for 5 months per year) then it's only cost me £200 per winter. It might even save me an insurance claim, who knows ?

It's far better to change them yourself if you can store them somewhere - then you can swap at a moment's notice rather than the 2 weeks notice you need to give the dealer, and you save a load of money.

I'll shortly be advertising my old 18" 415s which I had painted in smoked chrome to suit the last (mineral grey) car, with a good 5.5mm of tread all round.

[stewaran25]

Also, Our local tyre fitter comes to our office and swaps them over for £20 in the car park.

a little lazy perhaps, but its much easier for them with a proper jack, than the emergency one provided in the car.