anniniwa wrote:very interesting..so it's either invest in snow tyres (which are difficult to get) or take the cheaper option of snow socks which is most suitable for slow driving, doesn't seem to be a happy medium here. Interested to hear from anyone who may have the snow socks.
Coming from a snow "rich" country during the winter I'd say getting winter tyres is the way to go if this is going to last any longer. Winter socks are grand but you can't really drive on them all the time as they'd wear out on a mix of clean and icy roads, especially if there's light snow/ice mixed with grit (no worries of getting any grit in Dublin, haven't seen any yet)
. You'd be changing them all the time. Chains are not a longer term solution even if you'd be allowed to use them here as you can use them only in fair amount of snow otherwise the suspension's gone.
Some spare rims, a pair only needed for drive wheels (seen some fairly cheap used alloys around on buy and sell) and a pair of winter tyres. I bought a set of 4 before for my 5 off internet (those eiretyre.com guys) and was quite happy how it went. They arrived in about 4 days to the local fitter who put them on for 12 euros per wheel. I wish I got winter ones as well but didn't expect to see it last this long. I ordered the socks last week, hopefully will get them by the weekend just to get out of the estate and side roads which no one cleans. What's the point if the main road is clean if estates are not even gritted let alone cleaned? huh
Btw, the thing with a bag of sand/cement in the boot actually works as it makes car heavier on the drive wheels so the friction between tyre and road/ice increases, done that many times (once had 6 people in the car to make it heavy enough just to get moving, obviously not in mx5, it was great fun too
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