This Winter's going to be a corker

[Old Hack]

The idea a person could live in Switzerland is not fantastical, the idea a boring idiot like yourself would a)be offered it b)have the stones to accept is however.

But the more 'facts' you add, the more enthralling it becomes so do continue. Maybe you and MF could team up.

The effete religious zealot pacifist calls another man out for not having stones.

Couldn't make it up

[d000hg]

In an interesting development, we just booked our car in for a service at a reputable garage and to get winter tyres fitted. Their advice was that on a car like ours, only to fit them on the front.

No doubt a soft southern middle manager who went on a skiing holiday once knows more about these things of course. I expect he'll post an in-depth analysis of the physics and mathematics, rather than a childish insult.

[MyUserName]

In an interesting development, we just booked our car in for a service at a reputable garage and to get winter tyres fitted. Their advice was that on a car like ours, only to fit them on the front.

No doubt a soft southern middle manager who went on a skiing holiday once knows more about these things of course. I expect he'll post an in-depth analysis of the physics and mathematics, rather than a childish insult.

Isn't he more likely to accuse you of lying?

[sasguru]

In an interesting development, we just booked our car in for a service at a reputable garage and to get winter tyres fitted. Their advice was that on a car like ours, only to fit them on the front.

Finally! Proof that there is a God.
God, please let it snow this winter, so you can finally clasp Doogie to thy bosom.

[d000hg]

Isn't he more likely to accuse you of lying?

He's more likely to come back with a really poor comeback. See above.

[MyUserName]

He's more likely to come back with a really poor comeback. See above.

Oh yeah, I guess he could do that

[doodab]

In an interesting development, we just booked our car in for a service at a reputable garage and to get winter tyres fitted. Their advice was that on a car like ours, only to fit them on the front.

No doubt a soft southern middle manager who went on a skiing holiday once knows more about these things of course. I expect he'll post an in-depth analysis of the physics and mathematics, rather than a childish insult.

They are wrong, and unless you plan on not actually driving in the snow they will quite possibly kill you.

With winter tyres on just the driving wheels you may well be able to pull away and accelerate in conditions that might otherwise leave you stranded. In those sort of conditions if you don't have them on the rear wheels then it's VERY LIKELY that your car will spin when you go round a corner, brake, or even just lift off the throttle, especially going downhill. Once it starts it will keep spinning until you come to a stop or hit something. This will happen even at very low speeds and you will have no control whatsoever. I have practical experience of this (having done a season in the Alps in a front wheel drive car where I started out with just chains and no winter tyres) and it can be quite scary. On one occasion I was rolling downhill around a corner at about 5 mph and I span 720 degrees (with no barrier on the downhill side). On a couple of other occasions the car just started rotating and span 90, 180 degrees or whatever. I was never doing more than 10mph on any of these occasions.

I've done a fair bit of other driving in snow as well, in front, rear and all wheel drive cars, but only in places where winter tyres (on all wheels) are legally required, and I've never had a problem, so I don't think it's me driving like a knob.

Can I fit winter tyres to just two wheels? - Telegraph

Video Can you fit just 2 winter tyres | the online tyre guide

Seriously, if you value your life either buy a full set of them or get some chains for when you are stuck in the car park and leave the car if the roads are really bad. Chances are if it's that bad that you need winter tyres on you'll end up sharing the road with people who don't have them anyway so it's probably safer.

[darmstadt]

In an interesting development, we just booked our car in for a service at a reputable garage and to get winter tyres fitted. Their advice was that on a car like ours, only to fit them on the front.

No doubt a soft southern middle manager who went on a skiing holiday once knows more about these things of course. I expect he'll post an in-depth analysis of the physics and mathematics, rather than a childish insult.

Is this your car then?



Personally I think they're talking tulip. I drove 80km in snow today with winter tyres and now and then I could feel the car move sideways. I expect that with only 2 winter tyres on I would have done a graceful twirl into the central reservation. Do what they say, have an accident and then you can sue them for giving you misleading advice

[d000hg]

Seriously, if you value your life either buy a full set of them or get some chains for when you are stuck in the car park and leave the car if the roads are really bad. Chances are if it's that bad that you need winter tyres on you'll end up sharing the road with people who don't have them anyway so it's probably safer.

Don't worry I told the wife to get the garage to fit a full set because a dick on the internet told me too (not meaning you )

I don't buy it completely - to me 2 wheels is still safer than none and if the back was going to slide at 5mph it would do so regardless - but of course 4 is safer than 2 and it isn't worth the hassle to find out the hard way!

If I had my driving game code still working I'd set up some tests but it doesn't compile on modern compilers!

[darmstadt]

Winter tyres aren't just there for the grip in the snow (don't forget to turn off traction control) but they are also a different compound which gives better grip in cold weather.