Talk:Which? And Winter Tyres/@comment-4074242-20141115202235

Agree with you Galathumpian. Actually this is only a partly completed piece of work and is not yet indexed. I have been over the last decade routinely looking at tyre patents, and various on-line winter tyre test videos, talked to a police traffic officer about a fatality*, and various other sources1 : )

My wife did a 720 degree on a motorway on an early morning in November in the rain. Fortunately no damage to anything or anybody. Cold  frozen rigid tyres are dangerous. Stacks more data to come - with sources.

I am hopeful that All-season tyres may be the best tyre for economical use in the UK but comment such as  " they do not brake aswell as the best summer tyres" [Which?] is actually not that helpul as by defintion the Best tyres will outbrake the rest.


 * At a coroners court the question out is "Were the tyres legal?" when really in this case it would have made sense to ask were the tyres suitable. The traffic Officer now has winter tyres fitted to his car,. And his brother fits them to his Porsche Cayman.  The force itself now has a winter tyre policy.
 * An example : http://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/2014/6/18/goodyear-dunlop-sees-police-demand-for-winter-tyres-increase-30-year-on-year/52719/