More
on Winter tyres
See our two earlier NEWS items on winter tyres.
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Posted: 14.12.10 |
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Eric
Persson in Sweden posted a note on the V8 Bulletin
Board saying "winter tyres are a good thing,
I took this photo on the way to work one morning
near the end of November. Winter tyres are only
mandatory from December onwards." Scenes like
this have been common in the UK recently and are
due again. V8BB
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Peter
Jevons' note on the V8BB said "Winter tyres"
thread said "just as a matter of interest,
I am about to take delivery of a new BMW, as the
car has just been built and it is in the middle
of the period when winter tyres are required in
Germany, do you think it might come with a winter
grade tyres or a summer tyres? What happens in Germany
with new cars delivered in winter?"
Erik Persson added "winter tyres are mandatory
here in Sweden as well but here you normally get
summer tyres with a new car and order winter wheels
as an extra, often with plain steel rims."
Peter Garton in Germany responded saying "your
question, Pete, is fully justified. Cars are normally
supplied with summer tyres albeit both in summer
or winter when delivery takes place, unless one
deliberately specifies winter tyres. Then you don't
get the summer ones and so they have to be ordered
later on as an extra! I believe Mercedes has this
system of choice as an option (costing more!) but
not all manufacturers do it. Thus the general rule
is that a car supplied in winter will have summer
tyres fitted as standard." |
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