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    Yeah I was thinking that might be a better option but they seem quite expensive, last time I bought tyres brand new I bought 4 Toyo T1-R and they came to something like £60/70 that online tyre shop doesn't exist any more though and black circles and camskill only seem to set you search by size or reg

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    Do not by t1-r or s tyres, they are shite would feel like winter all year round

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    I had t1-s tyres. They were skitty as hell. They also made a drone sounding like knackerd wheel bearings

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stuart View Post
    Do not by t1-r or s tyres, they are shite would feel like winter all year round
    Quote Originally Posted by EwanG View Post
    I had t1-s tyres. They were skitty as hell. They also made a drone sounding like knackerd wheel bearings
    Haha that was a lot of years ago I bought them I certainly wouldn't put them on the Astra.

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    I had Vredstein snowtrac 3 on the Octavia vRS, Goodyear Ultragrips on the Fabia vRS, Have some Michelin Alpins on my Ranger and some Nokian WR on the wifes Fiesta

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    Quote Originally Posted by RallyMarshal View Post
    I had Vredstein snowtrac 3 on the Octavia vRS, Goodyear Ultragrips on the Fabia vRS, Have some Michelin Alpins on my Ranger and some Nokian WR on the wifes Fiesta

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    So which would you recommend on for a MK4 astra estate? Vredstein?

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    What wheel / tyre size? I just stuck with the decent brands and models from the various online tests like autoexpress and looked at the best match price-wise. Not all models make the same range of sizes..

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    There was a thread on another forum about crap winter tyres vs good summers, and the general verdict from the swiss folks was, "any" winter will be better than a summer, but ideally go with a recognised brand.

    Also, bera in mind they will be like sponge over 5-10DegC

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stuart View Post
    There was a thread on another forum about crap winter tyres vs good summers, and the general verdict from the swiss folks was, "any" winter will be better than a summer, but ideally go with a recognised brand.

    Also, bera in mind they will be like sponge over 5-10DegC
    Funnily enough, I didnt find so on my truck. Had a pair on the rear which got down to around 3.5mm (they reckon to run min depth of 4mm through winter) so thought I would just leave them on for a month or 2 to wear them out in the summer before binning them. Kept checking them and got to the end of the summer and 6k or so later and theyd gone to 2.5mm so only worn a mm and werent much worse than the summer Goodyears for overall dry grip. Might have been due to the tyre size which is 265/65/17 on the truck but I was surprised for sure.

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    I've always used winter tyres for many years, just bought some Kumho's for my Saab daily, to replace the worn out Goodyear winters I use the Range Rover if really bad
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