Contact your car insurer if you are thinking about fitting winter tyres!

Ally. I'd be interested to know what you bought, from where, and what you paid for them. And more importantly how they handle in the snow. Please.

Tony_H wrote:Ally. I'd be interested to know what you bought, from where, and what you paid for them. And more importantly how they handle in the snow. Please.

Tony,
I have bought snowchains from snowchains.co.uk but unfortunately I will have to wait 3 working days to get them, which is a pity as I now have 1 1/2 inches of snow outside the door and possibly more to come tonight!

The tyre people were supposed to ring me back when they'd sourced me some suitable winter tyres but they didn't, so either they couldn't find any or they were swamped by other callers.

Funnily enough, I checked my local Daihatsu dealers, who service my car, to make sure the snowchains would fit okay, and the guy who answered the phone had never heard of winter tyres :shock:

If I get my snow chains and I have a chance to practice with them I will let you know how I get on. I don't want to tell you what they cost because I'm rather embarassed about the fact that the salesman persuaded me out of the cheap ones and I've bought some more expensive ones that are easier to put on and keep their tension (or something like that). I was just fed up by that time and decided to buy them before I spent the rest of my life on the phone. Halfords didn't have any in stock within at least a 45 mile radius of where I live.

Ally