Winter wheels/tyres

[orcades]

Hi DW58, thanks for your information, Hawco Elgin may well be worth a try. Better discuss the stories about wheels and insurance modifications in another thread. Don't want to take this thread off topic.

 

[garmcqui]

I think if you change the tyres only, it doesn't matter, but if you change the alloy wheels too, it will.

 

[DW58]

I've been told that as long as the tyres and wheels - note wheels and not alloys, many people use steel wheels with winter tyres - remain the same that there is no modification, but if the wheel size changes then there is.

 

[garmcqui]

So with my car having 18's as standard, if I go with 16" wheels (even steel ones) and winter tyres, that would be classed as a modification?

 

[Mark V1]

Surely any change to the wheels - whether design, material or size, is a 'modication'????

 

[Betty Swollocks]

Just won a set of genuine VW winter steel wheels and tyres on ebay. £165.

Gonna cost me another £75 to get them home, but all this talk on here has got me thinking I might just need them.

 

[DW58]

Forecast here is for snow by the end of the week, glad I've got my winter boots on the Golf.

 

[JCJ]

I shall consider winter tyres next winter (don't get my Mk7 until March). However, I would still rather have been able to have ordered a 4 Motion Golf in UK and I don't mean VR6. Most of Europe can buy 4 wheel drive Golf's - but not UK. Disappointing.

 

[DW58]

You're not the only one there, but Volkswagen UK in their infinite wisdom do not think us worthy of 4-motion along with other options.

 

[caravaggio]

In Spain 4motion is only available on the manual 2.0tdi. I would have liked 4motion on the 140hp with DSG... Because the bump in price to the R is rather substantial

 

[JCJ]

You're not the only one there, but Volkswagen UK in their infinite wisdom do not think us worthy of 4-motion along with other options.

Envious of 4-motion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SdOBu7W9v4

Maybe one day VW UK will think us worthy.

 

[The wasp]

Never had them before and managed to do without, I've got the Perth alloys spare so may put winters on them. TBH I think it's just another ploy for the motor industry to get cash from us.

 

[caravaggio]

Rarely anyone switches tyres in the winter where I live. In case of heavy snow we do with the snow chains. But if I need to travel in bad weather conditions I'll just take an SUV to be on the safe side.

 

[enkil]

No winter here

 

[DW58]

No kidding