Winter Tyres

stevothesaddler said:

Sorry if this has been discussed elsewhere, the search didn't seem to bring anything up. In February as a family we always drive to French Alps for our ski trip. In the past few years its been done in my wife's Golf (my old car (BMW) not the best in snow!). We had winter tyres on the golf which made it brilliant in snow. I would like to think that my PHEV being 4X4 will be as good or better without winter tyres, but might bite the bullet and get some anyway. Anyone bought any yet? I know there is unlikely to be any historical data - but any thoughts on what it will do to MPG (I won;t worry about electric on such a long trip as the first 20+ miles of 775 is unlikely to make much impact :mrgreen: )

Thoughts?

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stevothesaddler said:

Sorry if this has been discussed elsewhere, the search didn't seem to bring anything up. In February as a family we always drive to French Alps for our ski trip. In the past few years its been done in my wife's Golf (my old car (BMW) not the best in snow!). We had winter tyres on the golf which made it brilliant in snow. I would like to think that my PHEV being 4X4 will be as good or better without winter tyres, but might bite the bullet and get some anyway. Anyone bought any yet? I know there is unlikely to be any historical data - but any thoughts on what it will do to MPG (I won;t worry about electric on such a long trip as the first 20+ miles of 775 is unlikely to make much impact :mrgreen: )

Thoughts?

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stevothesaddler said:

Sorry if this has been discussed elsewhere, the search didn't seem to bring anything up. In February as a family we always drive to French Alps for our ski trip. In the past few years its been done in my wife's Golf (my old car (BMW) not the best in snow!). We had winter tyres on the golf which made it brilliant in snow. I would like to think that my PHEV being 4X4 will be as good or better without winter tyres, but might bite the bullet and get some anyway. Anyone bought any yet? I know there is unlikely to be any historical data - but any thoughts on what it will do to MPG (I won;t worry about electric on such a long trip as the first 20+ miles of 775 is unlikely to make much impact :mrgreen: )

Thoughts?

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stevothesaddler said:

Sorry if this has been discussed elsewhere, the search didn't seem to bring anything up. In February as a family we always drive to French Alps for our ski trip. In the past few years its been done in my wife's Golf (my old car (BMW) not the best in snow!). We had winter tyres on the golf which made it brilliant in snow. I would like to think that my PHEV being 4X4 will be as good or better without winter tyres, but might bite the bullet and get some anyway. Anyone bought any yet? I know there is unlikely to be any historical data - but any thoughts on what it will do to MPG (I won;t worry about electric on such a long trip as the first 20+ miles of 775 is unlikely to make much impact :mrgreen: )

Thoughts?

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stevothesaddler said:

Thanks for all the suggestions… I look forward to the 20pp thread that I somehow missed

Steve

PS - Not obligatory in French Alps… although they are in Switzerland

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