WINTER TYRES vs SUMMER TYRES - Can you use Winter Tyres all year? 

The handling sleeps on winter tyres got Sava Eskimo m+s.. Best handling takes around 1.5 meters more to brake fully, but i get used to it..

I drive under 5000 miles a year in the Baltics and keep winter tyres all year round. I used TS860 (european winter type) for 7 winters and 3x4 summers. In summer when it's over 20-25°C you can feel the braking distance is longer, but with some caution it is fine. In winter if you have slush and lots of melted snow they are great (mostly in the city where they pour lots of salt). also fine in snow, but once the thread is around 5-6mm with lots of snow and freezing t° (-5 to -25°C) it's not easy to get out of snowdrift. also with little thread left you lose traction on gravel roads in summer I guess, with some caution, winter (european winter type not scandinavian) tires are just fine in places where summer is cool

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Interesting when you Google some results say winter tyres not as good in wet weather. Car I bought 12 months ago has 3 winter tyres and one landsail. Tread is approx 5-6 mm. I drive steady and haven't had any issues. Usually put 32 psi in honda jazz.

Good job, thanks. When your winter tyres are worn down to 4mm, then they probably won't work well in the snow. I live in the French Alps, we often use these worn out but totally legal winter tyres in the summer. I'm guessing the summer dry breaking is improved when there is less tread. I'd be interested to know if that is true. I could test it myself, however, we definitely don't have such a nice quiet flat road available like you have!

Interesting video, I thought there would be a much bigger difference between the two tyres. However, I'd really like to see this test but in wet conditions, I have a feeling the winter tyre will slack a lot more than the summer one there. Keep it up!

keep in mind that testing tires by braking "on mark" introduce huge uncertainty related with driver reaction. On 60mph and 0.2s average reaction time you will travel 5m more or less. To mitigate it you have to repeat every test 10-20 times and average out. But better - use OBD to see when brakes really was applied.

Top video mate...very informative .It's extremely important for safety as had some near misses breaking hard with winter tyres during the Spring when temperatures are on the turn from 2-7 degrees but you get weird "freak" warm days of up to 19 degrees

I will be more worried about low oil pressure warning 🤨

Thank you Just what I thought, summer tyres are a scam...

Useful video. Watching from Toronto Canada 🇨🇦🙏

Thank you..

I am considering using winter tire in Vancouver BC all year round and your video gives me confidence as Vancouver (Raincouver) has pretty much the same climate with that in North England., Thank you!

Thanks for the test, really helpful.

Very useful thank you.