Lyon Car Hire - winter tyres

Anybody know how to get winter tyres on hire cars from Lyon? None coming up so far on usual searches. Closest, I am getting so far is "we can request but cannot guarantee until day of pick-up" which is really not much use :roll:

Do a search using the name of the car hire company you want to use and pneus hiver e.g. sixt pneus hiver = http://www.sixt.fr/location-voiture-pneus-hiver/

You will not be able to rent a car in France with winter tyres unless you pay a serious upgrade and even then they still wont guarantee it. Its ridiculous.

Not sure how but I seem to have gotten sorted :roll: . Eventually found a car (Nissan Juke) with winter tyres with Hertz and not too expensive either so happy enough :lol: . It seemed to be the only model available - not huge luggage space but we should be able to manage. Taxi transfers from Lyon are horrendously expensive - nearly more expensive than flights :shock:

Still, it is astonishing that car hire companies are not more alive to the demand from skiers, especially as their affiliates in Switzerland, Germany and Austria have now got this sorted.

The idea that they will not guarantee winter tyres until you arrive at the airport is laughable - they really are a must if heading into the mountains (imho) and I would be extremely reluctant to hire a car without them. :x

Why dont you just take snowsocks for the car, easy to fiy

I had the exact same problem last season. It's a nightmare. I also found hertz and had a juke. It was from chambery. We took a surf roof rack that folded in a case and used that for our skis/boards. It is ridiculous that you can't book it. Other countries are fine. Not quite sure what the French are thinking but then will we ever know.