Its only a bit of snow

[C.A.R.]

You're a very impressionable group of people who are just absorbing the information and scare-mongering being churned out that winter tyres are the holy grail and should be acknowledged nationwide, when this simply isn't true.

We don't run on summer tyres anyway, typically they are all-weather tyres. These are designed specifically to not aquaplane and still perform under 7°C - just not as-well as a softer compound 'winter' tyre will.

And what about in temperatures above 7°C? Winter tyres are actually a disadvantage in these situations, such as today, for instance. Bone dry road surface, 8°C.

Remember, winter tyres will only give you an advantage if it is wet and below 7°C - at any other time they're not as good as an all-weather tyre.

If you've bought winter tyres and you don't live out in the sticks you've either-
-got too much money
or
-you're a mug.

I can go on all day about this sh*t.