Wife's Tiguan has full winter tyres on, and 4Motion with Haldex to rear.
I'm not convinced the Haldex still works (it's common for them to fail around 40K miles which is spot on what the car's done) so in snow - quite unusual here on the Cheshire Plain - the other morning I did a full throttle start with wife watching to see if the rear wheel spun too. Car just took off like it was on dry tarmac!
However - braking was a different matter. Slightest touch of the brakes and the ABS went mental and it took a fair old distance (this is on a flat road) to stop. I also noticed as I went around a bend along the road that lateral grip wasn't great either.
Certainly good to know the limits of these tyres - it would be very easy to get over-confident based on how they'll let you pull away. I'm sure it woudl drive up a snowy slope no problem, but I wouldn't be at all confident about coming down one.
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