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Pirelli Ice & Snow questions
Have found somewhere that does these at not to bad a price but the Pirelli website is pants on details so I still have a couple of questions after searching here and elsewhere:
Are they marked with the Mountain & snowflake symbol as needed in Germany etc??
Are they directional??? If not I'll get one as a spare.
Anyone know??
Cheers
Derek
30th Dec 2009 11:28 pm
cold_n_wet
Member Since: 05 May 2009
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I have them on my D3, but I'm offshore at the moment.
I think they have the symbol, or at least M+S rated required for norwegian use.
I can't recall them being rotation dependant.
I can tell you there not the best winter tyres I have driven on, but they are predictable.
I will try and get SWMBO to have a look and confirm.
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1st Jan 2010 8:58 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Cheers, don't usually get things as bad as you guys, but with all this snow I'm getting a feeling for it!
1st Jan 2010 9:58 am
AJS4X4
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Location: Surrey
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Vredestein Wintrac 4 Xtreme.
Andy.
1st Jan 2010 10:15 am
alanwxr
Member Since: 19 Nov 2006
Location: West Yorkshire
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AJS4X4 wrote:
Vredestein Wintrac 4 Xtreme.
Andy.
What are these like as all year round tyres in the UK andy?
Main use would be general roads, with no real off road use other than the odd track in summer in the Highlands and pulling a horse trailer across muddy fields at shows in summer.
1st Jan 2010 10:36 am
cold_n_wet
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Talked to SWMBO, can confirm mountain and no directional arrow.
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D4 gone, missed but replaced with a 110 Puma.
1st Jan 2010 12:59 pm
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My thanks to Mrs C&W!!!
Getting them next week, will get a 5th ordered as a spare.
1st Jan 2010 1:02 pm
Ken
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Good Choice Del lead the way
1st Jan 2010 1:12 pm
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Cheers, will report in how they are vs MTRs.
Assuming I can get SWMBO's car out of the drive, D3s and 18" is snow are fun! Must get SWMBO out digging!
1st Jan 2010 1:28 pm
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Well got a phone call from tyre fitters today saying that Pirelli had one Ice & Snow in stock in 255/60 18 size and they were only making for summer!!!! Mr Pirelli does this look looks summer to you, pic taken today!!!
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Looks like it has to be mid summer to buy winter tyres!!! Was thinking of Verdestein tyres but have heard good and bad things of them so still thinking.
4th Jan 2010 9:14 pm
captain_sugar
Member Since: 05 Sep 2006
Location: Hradec Kralove
Posts: 1095
cold_n_wet wrote:
Talked to SWMBO, can confirm mountain and no directional arrow.
Glen
correct.
good tyresSome people get by
With a little understanding
Some people get by
With a whole lot more
I don�t know
Why you gotta be so undemanding
4th Jan 2010 9:44 pm
AJS4X4
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If it help you make up your mind we have sold hundreds of Wintrac 4 Xtreme with "NO" negative feedback.
Andy.
5th Jan 2010 9:04 am
RR38HANS
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Had Ice and snow all year round on my Range Rover and was happy with them.
The Ice an Snow preformed much better in summer, in the wet, then their summer counterparts.
Thats perhaps why everybody buys them mid summer 05 TDV6 HSE AUTO 7seats, tonga green/alpaca, alpine roof, privacy glass, tow kit, wood kit, 20" stormers n summer, 18" in winter, fancy exhausts, rear seat ent., club fooked turbo!
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5th Jan 2010 12:31 pm
Harvoy
Member Since: 21 Sep 2007
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I fitted the Wintrac extreme's on Monday; SOOO glad I did that!
They are fabulous winter tyres and so far have found grip on everything that I have found to drive over, I even "helped" a stricken gritter out of a ditch last night.
They have proven quite good on tarmac too, very stable and nearly as good handling as the previous Scorpions I have had.56 plate Zermatt Silve
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