Thanks for comments so far. I need new tyres anyway, Original Primacy HP on now, and wouldn't go to the expense of 2 sets round here (East Anglia, I would if I was in places with more preciptation). If you get really stuck on UK main roads it's usually because everyone else is stuck in front to you. Even a Haflinger on studded tyres can't make progress if the road is blocked with jack knifed trucks.DickieG wrote:Personally I'm still waiting for the weather to drop below 10° or for the first frost and with only 3 months of winter left, thoughts of spending hundreds of £'s on winter tyres is becoming rather low on my list of priorities.
In any case which set would you use for (say) a trip to the alps in late March: Calais wet and grey and about 6 degrees, get down round Dijon and it can be sunny and 25 for a few hundred miles, get up an alp and it can be minus 10 and snowing. Same here really, it can be snow covered for weeks or hardly a winter at all.
That's why all seasons seem a sensible compromise unless their noise and wear make them unpleasant and uneconomic. The Vectors cost a little less than Michelin so up front cost is not the issue. But, I can't recall ever seeing a car with a set fitted, nor do you see them advertised so I wonder why.