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Oct 26th, 2020, 11:49 | #21 |
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Just to add my 2p into the mix.
Insurance companies class winter tyres as modifications that need declaring. I spoke to mine about declaring a towbar I'd had fitted and they said "no charge for that modification, unlike fitting winter wheels & tyres".....
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Oct 26th, 2020, 12:23 | #22 |
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A few do, most don't, but always worth checking.
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Oct 26th, 2020, 13:10 | #23 |
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I haven't heard of that for a number of years tbh. Which insurers do?
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Oct 26th, 2020, 13:24 | #24 |
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Some insurance companies are clueless. It is a legal requirement to have winter tyres if travelling to many EU countries in winter so how is complying with the law a modification? I would challenge it if my insurers tried that with me.
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Oct 26th, 2020, 13:26 | #25 |
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Hardly any insurance companies need to be notified about fitting winter tyres... https://www.abi.org.uk/globalassets/...commitment.pdf
From... https://www.abi.org.uk/products-and-.../winter-tyres/ For the last 15 years I've fitted winter tyres to my car, up until I got the Volvo. However I now have a spare set of suitable wheels and shall again resume fitting winter tyres once it gets properly cold. I recently bought a full set of ContiProContact 235/40 18 from eBay for the bargain price of £220.
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Oct 26th, 2020, 13:35 | #26 |
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I'm amazed there are two who do tbh. Providing they meet manufacturers specs, they'd be hard-pressed to dispute a claim.
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Oct 26th, 2020, 17:33 | #27 |
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Why would you want to penalise customers who spend extra money making their car safer? It makes no sense...
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Oct 27th, 2020, 17:27 | #29 |
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Just to add my opinion, have previously ran winters on the my old A3 (quattro beast in the winter) the v50 that followed, was good on the winters summers in even light snow were useless. and on the better half's Ibiza full on snow tyres, Vredstien Snowtracs, absolutely unstoppable in snow and generally decent in winter. Just picked up a new to me D5 V60 the other week and came on Vtredstein Quatrac 5's well 3 of them, inital impressions are good had them in some cold and wet conditions, and happy with them i think there dry summer performance may not be amazing but considering buying a second set of alloys with good summer tyres.
The Quadtrac 5s seem well priced can pick up an appropriate 18 for around £100 or a little more fitted. |
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