Now heres a thing. My boss, being from Londinium, moved up here and bought "winter" tyres for our VW Transporter 4motion van. I found out today that, after having the tyres swapped, they were M+S tyres. This resulted in;
Much better handling on the main road in and about town today(because he bought 215/60/16 instead of 205/60/16)
AND
Absolute fecking nightmare on the Cairn tonight going from under to over steer on the cold slush, vague braking and all round just sh1te, scary sh1te. My old Fabia on summer tyres went faster, my Alfa is like warp 9!
Conclusion? WINTER tyres are for winter, M+S aren't.
Re transporter 4motion vans - never had a 4x4 that understeered like a fwd and didn't seem to have the rear axle engaged.
Nice socks Iain.
Alfa in garage = warm. They are sensitive you know Catman.
Spiderman - winter alloys AND summer alloys are the way to go, unsprung weight and all.
Summer ones are shinier!
Winter ones are anthracite grey to hid the dirt.