SNOW TYRES

Years ago I bought some Colway remould snow tyres and had them studded,they were brillaint in the snow(I remember towing a ruddy great VW LT35 out of a snow drift with my Mk2 van),they were also brilliant off road. Anyway,last year,during the heavy snows I remembered that I still had them,got them out from behind the shed and hey presto 2 cullinders on rusty rims!! So,rather than go through the expense this year of hastally buying a monster truck(as I did last year)I though I would try and find some more snow tyres. Have you ever tried to find 12" snow tyres,they are like rocking horse watsits.I have,at last,found some and they should arrive on Thursday. They are Kingpin remould studable snow tyres and they cost around £32.50 each(inc.vat) + £5.00 delivery.They only do one size in 12" and that is 155/80 x 12.

Awesome! The only other 12" winter tyre is made by Yokohama and costs around £60 so you've got a bagain there.

I had to hunt for winter tyres for the 90. Most people that don't understand how winter tyres work tried to fob me off with all-terrains or even mud-terrains but in the end i've found someone who has a stock of proper Nokian (Finnish) tyres. Top Banana! :-)

Sounds like your expecting a rough winter Chris, anyroad up us up north up north me duck will have had it before ye, if it comes, I expect Nick Baker will pass it on after he has enough of it (thought you'd be looking for another cheap bobtail)

Thought 4 tyres would be easier to find a place for than a ruddy great monster truck! Last year on this little corner daan saaf it kicked up prety bad,so the tyres are just a little insurance if it does kick off again.The tyres above are 10" Martin,they won't fit over my discs. My new tyres arrived yesterday and they look great,but,I thought they were going to be studable but it appears that they are not,still,good chunky M&S at a reasonable price,should get me around if the white stuff does decide to lay about down here.

The legal use of studs on the road in the UK is open to debate. Although they aren't fully covered in the C & U Regs there is certainly evidence of potential prosecutions by Highways Authorities for damage to the roads.
User beware!

Llanigraham wrote:The legal use of studs on the road in the UK is open to debate. Although they aren't fully covered in the C & U Regs there is certainly evidence of potential prosecutions by Highways Authorities for damage to the roads.
User beware!

Bugger what they might do to the road surface - I had a pair on the front of Cyclops for off roading - boy were they hairy on tarmac

Trayel tyres are still availble and in the heavy snows last year they were excellent, £36.40 fromn Germany incl shipping, if you buy 4 then they dont even charge p+p!!

That's TRAYAL, available here, 13" only, now £39.77 apiece inclusive of VAT & delivery.

Spelling error aside the 12" version is still available through mytyres from Germany

Any idea where to get 10" winter tyres from?

Kingpin do a 10" version.

You still in a strop because I tagged all the pictures of your scamp

Hahaha hadn't noticed

Seriously? Thought you'd get like a million notifications that id tagged your pics lmao

mk1dave wrote:Kingpin do a 10" version.

Thanks for that, turns out Kingpin's only 30 miles away from me

OSR wrote:

mk1dave wrote:Kingpin do a 10" version.

Thanks for that, turns out Kingpin's only 30 miles away from me

Result they list them on there website but no price on there. And I haven't found them anywhere else

kingpin do a gravel tyre (old skool M&S nobbly) that retails for about £60. it's not reinforced but does last longer than a Hakka on stage but is know to de-laminate.