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> Note the interpolations:
>
>
> LeakiestWink wrote:
>>
>> > Fulda H-series
>>
>> Not available in the UK (unless you have the name of the tread
>> patern).
>
> http://fulda.tiremanager.com/main.asp?action=rim_tyre&rim_tyre=summer&...=sbspro
Erm... that's a US site (with data back to German market vehicles
exclusively) - the i in tire gives it away. Anyhow, it still
don't list a type of tyre, only tyre sizes.
>> > Continental Touring Contact
>>
>> Not available in the UK.
>
> http://www.conti-online.com/generator/www/uk/en/continental/automobile...emes/4x
That's for and I quote "medium-weight to heavy 4x4 vehicles". I
don't recall a Mk3 Golf being described anything like that!!!!
> http://www.conti-online.com/generator/www/uk/en/continental/automobile...emes/ca
OK, that is a tyre available in the UK market, and a fairly good
one too. That would be one of my reccomendations (but only if
certain driving styles were listed). I would also suggest the
ContiPremiumContact
>> > Pirelli Scorpion
>>
>> Not available in the UK.
>
> http://www.pirelli.co.uk/web/catalog/car-suv-van/catalogo_sd.page?cate...ia=/cat
That's a winter only tyre for "fast luxury SUVs". We don't use
winter tyres in the UK, we use all season tyres, and a Golf ain't
no SUV!!!
>> > Goodrich Traction T/A
>>
>> Not available in the UK.
>
> http://www.bfgoodrich.co.uk/bfguk/front/affich.jsp?codeRubrique=3&code...e=BFG_P
That still don't list the Traction T/A.
>> Not done very well, have we! He asked for tyres for UK roads
>> and
>> weather conditions, and IME, whilst rain is the same wherever
>> it
>> falls, some road surfaces, and many tyre types are very
>> different
>> between the US and UK.
>
> Sean:
>
> It is a matter of nomeclature. Most tire (tyre) makers that
> distribute
> internationally have to meet many different "local codes" for
> lack of a
> better term. Here in the US, they have to meet DOT
> specifications, FTC
> specifications and also include treadwear, traction,
> temperature range
> and speed-range on each tire, which must also include an
> individual
> serial number. I am sure that specifications in the UK and the
> rest of
> the world are similar in the main, but differ in detail. Point
> being
> that I put the US name and then the brand and UK into the
> search
> engine, each one linked as you see above.
Yes, I agree, to a point. All tyres in the UK have the DOT
specs, as well as traction, treadwear & temperature, along with
full size and load/speed indexes <sp?>, as well as manufacturing
batch codes. The DOT specs, along with traction, treadwear and
temperature are usually ignored and irrelevant in the UK, the
official tyre importers pre-determine temperature specs, so we
don't get a choice anyway. However, they must have, by law, "E"
codes for European Type Approval. In the UK, along with the
European Union, we have very different specifications and legal
requirements, to those in the US and Canada. As you say above,
"differ in detail", and, as the saying goes, the devil is in the
detail.
> As to Michelin, for whatever reason the OEM tires on my wife's
> VW were
> wretched in the rain (driving rain, not just sprinkles), but
> excellent
> at all other times, including those times after a long dry
> spell when a
> few drops turn the road surface into an emulsion of oil, mud,
> dust and
> dirt... very slippery. When I had my M-Class Mercedes SUV, it
> also came
> with Michelins, same phenomenon. Now I would expect that the UK
> has
> more rain than the mid-Atlantic US, narrower roads, some of
> them
> hard-pan but somewhat higher speeds on those narrower roads.
> So, that
> is why I advised away based on MY experience from Michelin
> tires.
You honestly surprise me about poor Michelin rain performance.
Leaving SUVs aside, generally, the entire range of Michelin
passenger car range tyres have allways been reknown for their wet
weather performance as ranging from the good to excellent. Your
experience may be down to a very different road surface, or maybe
some kind of placebo effect from previous bad experiences of
Michelins??? Maybe you got a dodgy batch, that slipped through
some hole in the quality control net - it does happen.
> We drive a combination of local suburban roads and highways,
> and
> upstate PA mixed and hardpan roads, and our summer house is
> accessible
> only by AWD/4X4 for three months out of the year, and it is a
> muddy
> trip hoping for +/- 8-inch ground clearance for three more
> months. My
> work takes me out in all weather all year round, so we are
> generally
> more sensitive to tires than the typical
> can-take-a-day-off-when-it-rains-snows-and-sleets driver.
Oh - tell me about it. For the vast majority (in England), the
first dusting of snow or ice, and they become utterly incompetant
and dangerous at the wheel. I really wish they would take a day
off! That is on area where, it seems, over the pond in the US
and Canada, you are much better drivers than us
> Peter Wieck
> Wyncote, PA
Regards
Sean, rural lil 'ol England
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