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Riley Blue
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 Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2020 2:46 pm Post subject: All season tyres on a classic - thoughts? |
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All being well we shall be heading to the Highlands next March in our '63 One-Point-Five. It's likely temperatures will be low with icy roads, maybe snow too so I'm thinking that 'Winter' or 'All Season' tyres will be sensible.
The car is currently on 175/60-14 Hankook 'Summer'tyres but there's a limited choice of all-seasons in that size (though one is Michelin Cross Climate +, one of the best rated).
The question is, has anyone experience of such tyres on their classic and which?
A supplementary question: I could go to 175/65-14 and have a larger and cheaper choice - worth it or not?
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alastairq
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Location: East Yorkshire
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| Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2020 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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Both Hankook and Nankang offer winter tyres in your current size.
Then there's a proper winter nordic tyre from Nankang?
https://www.camskill.co.uk/m228b0s9299p161859/Nankang_Tyres_Winter_Nordic_Car_Nankang_IC1_Ice_Activa_Nankang_IC_1_-_165_70_R14_81T_TL_Fuel_Eff_%3A_E_Wet_Grip%3A_E_NoiseClass%3A_2_Noise%3A_71dB
Worth a scan, I'd be going for the cheaper priced tyres, considering their limited use?
https://www.camskill.co.uk/m94b0s0p0/Winter_-_Snow_-_Cold_Weather_-_Car_MPV_Tyres_-_14_inch
But then, the only tyres I've ever used that let me down, performance-wise, have been the more expensive, 'good-name' brands....
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lowdrag
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Location: Le Mans
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| Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2020 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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| I think we worry too much. Most of us are of an age where you only had things called "tyres", and crossplies at that. I would happily go to Scotland in the E-type on my Blockley 185/15 radials, since most of the driving for you, if there is much frost, will be on - EEK!! salted roads. And if you are on the back roads, common ssnse should prevail. Highest gear, lowest revs, and cadence braking. |
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Riley Blue
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| Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2020 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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| lowdrag wrote: | | I think we worry too much. Most of us are of an age where you only had things called "tyres", and crossplies at that. I would happily go to Scotland in the E-type on my Blockley 185/15 radials, since most of the driving for you, if there is much frost, will be on - EEK!! salted roads. And if you are on the back roads, common ssnse should prevail. Highest gear, lowest revs, and cadence braking. |
I'm not at all worried. I've driven the Riley on crossplies, they lost front grip too readily in the wet and were soon changed. As I now need new tyres anyway and want to use the car more often during the colder months I'm just exploring all the options.
Alastair - thanks, I'll have a look at the Nankangs however I had their summer tyres on the car previously and the Hankooks are better so perhaps the same is true of their winters.
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alastairq
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| Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2020 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Alastair - thanks, I'll have a look at the Nankangs however I had their summer tyres on the car previously and the Hankooks are better so perhaps the same is true of their winters.
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The Nankangs may well have more flexible sidewalls? [IE. fewer plies in the carcass?] The make is more known for it's on road-off road tyres.
Remember the suspension was designed around crossply tyres[including all the tracking, etc]....which have stiffer sidewalls.
Unless very well financially endowed, nearly all crossplies sold for a reasonable retail cost these past 20 years are fairly basic in their tread pattern and rubber mix. Avon tourists, etc? All under the 60 pensionquids mark.
I use Avons on the front of my Dellow, purely to stop the wheelrims scraping the tarmac.
I use Michelin taxis...or Nankangs, on the rear...the Michelins are not cheap [Nankangs cheaper by far], but the extra 6 plies [or so] in the Micheline taxi carcasses makes them as stiff as a crossply....but without the pencil rubber casing.
Nankangs spread more.
[My tyre choice dictated as much by what tyres are permitted for classic reliability trials, as anything else]
Blockleys absolutely no good except on tarmac....opinion of those who have coughed up a minor mortgage for a pair...
My wheel diameter is 16 inch....same as a Ford Prefect.
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