Apropos of nothing much, I bought some "proper" winter tyres for the Merc last winter (RWD of course ) Stored them in my garage over the summer and put them back on again in November.
I'd never really felt the need before but I was going to Germany, France and Italy last winter and I decided to try them.
Noisy things by comparison to summer tyres but boy do they work in the conditions they're intended for.
One day in late November we were up at Llandegla to mountain bike and it had snowed heavily. The access road is steep and winding. Range Rovers on summer tyres were struggling to get up the hill while my E Class on winters just sailed up.
Uncanny really how well those tyres work in those conditions.
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