Ok - just orderd 4 x Vredestein Wintrac Extremes at £97/tyre. The equivalent Conti was £135 each.
On the xDrive 320d that should make for a pretty capable machine if we get bad weather.
Thats what we had on the Hilux, the year i put them on it snowed heavily, our drive is steep but it went straight up in 6" of snow from a snowed underwheel standing start in RWD only, in 4WD it was virtually unsptoppable, i'm sure you will find you have chosen well.
Interestingly, the Wintrac doesn't have a particularly high wet grip score, but practical use proved those marks to be not necessarily true, something i have reservations and suspicions about those scorings.
On its OE Pirelli Scorpions the Hilux was skittish in the wet, not helped by its limited slip rear diff, so bad in fact that the demo we wanted to buy we couldn't because the salesman spun it on a roundabout and wrote it off, remember these are old school 4x4's not meant for permanent use in 4WD which when selected locks the centre diff.
I removed those at 1000 miles as too scary and sold them on, the Vred's went on when winter came, vehicle transformed, they would not slide at all, wet grip nothing short of superb whatever the temperautre, in fact so good were they that it used to be nearly summer before i was allowed to put the summer set on by SWMBO, who used the vehicle far more than i.
Just out of interest, i researched a lot and put a set of General UHP's on for summer set, they too proved to have excellent grip, every bit as good in the warm wet as the Vreds, really cheap too around £70 a tyre.
Good choice Dingle, you'll be trying to get the thing stuck when the snow arrives and failing miserably.
Edited by gordonbennet on 20/10/2015 at 23:06
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