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Any recommendations?
195/70/R15
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I run Fulda Conveo Tracs on the front and Vredestein Comtracs on the rear. Bought from Oponeo.co.uk
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Do they work ok and do you do big miles on them? I ask as ours will be going to the alps at easter.
Anything but event tyres. Because literally, last winter every journey had an event or two in my transit 😯
Save ya cash and leave it parked up as there shit in snow lol
Ours are on a MWB FWD Transit chassis coachbuilt motorhome. I leave them on all year as they are WAY better than the frankly awful Continental Vancos that it came with. Wear rate is OK, and we have done a 6 week summer Alps trip on them.
My SWB sprinter has Ovation winters on cost about £60 or so a corner for a 225/75/15- I leave them on year round for two and a half years. SWB sprinters are shocking in the snow (you don't say whether your tranny is FWD or RWD, they come in both flavours) . On summer tyres at a T junction it can barely cross the camber of the road on snow if its unladen. Plenty more drivable with the winter and happy on some steep climbs in back roads of Moray and Cairngorm on snow last winter.
Probably done 30k miles on the them, probably more in summer than winter and have worn well - just about to swap the fronts and backs around that'll even out the wear to keep them good for another year or so.
They do wear a little faster than summers but not massively so, and you have more tread depth to start with too so its much of a muchness. Winters seem a bit more prone to picking up punctures though, maybe the softer rubber or the sipes make it easier for anything sharp to get picked up.
Got Accelera winters on my astra van - they're the company that own/make Vredestein - but they're cheaper (about £50 each for a 175/70/14s, got me though last April's snowmagdon and still look plenty fresh enough after 30k, again left on all year.
Whatever was mid price and suggested by my Local Tyre shop.
If your MWB I'm assuming FWD unless it's an old one? Makes it a lot better. My LWB was FWD and went fine on average rubber - no major brands but no cheap crap either. That included a fair bit of snow work over a couple of winters.
If your MWB I'm assuming FWD unless it's an old one?
current ones can be either still have the option to be driven either end