All-Season Tyres versus winter tyres-(tested)-Are they better than changing to winter tyres?
All-Season Tyres versus winter tyres
All-Season Tyres versus winter tyres-This is yet another test, regarding the effectiveness of All-Season Tyres versus winter tyres. It is normally the winter tyres versus the summer tyres. The difference in recent years is that we have seen the introduction of new tyre products with differing claims and counter claims.
Leading tyre companies Pirelli, Michelin, Nokian and Goodyear are all launching new all-season products this year. The problem is that, so are many of the mid-range tyre suppliers. These include Apollo tyres with their excellent Vredestein range of winter and all-season tyres.
Most of the tyres that were tested came out very well, n but all-season tyres are not the same as winter tyres. In my opinion, it is still better to fit the real thing and stick to winter tyres. This is especially if you live in a hilly or mountainous region of the UK. Here in Yorkshire, we have a mixture of terrain, but we do have many hills. These hills are large and small and this is where we need the proper winter tyres.
winter tyres are a great debate.
But the fact is that you are better fitting the different products depending where you live. General All-season tyres do offer the driver better protection in all the types of weather that we can expect in a bad UK winter. This, in my opinion, is if you live in the part of the country that has a flat landscape. This would be in say Lincolnshire and Norfolk. All-season tyres are certainly better than using summer tyres.
I can foresee a future when most tyres produced will be of the all-season variety. Why not? It is up to the car manufacturers to these tyres as original equipment. The problem would be that the fact that the tread pattern is more aggressive, alters the rolling resistance of the tyre. This would be no good for the new hybrid and electric cars unless the tyre designers came up with yet another special tyre to fit the electric cars?
Finally, Pellon Tyres are still Nokian tyre dealers for the Calderdale area of Yorkshire UK.
The tyre tests can be seen on http://www.particlenews.com/