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[honeybun]

In this country unless you live somewhere really rural and you know how to drive in snowy conditions then I would say they are not necessary.
Apart from that they are so expensive and you have to store the yourself or pay for storage 


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[Limpy]

Winter tyres - hmm

That would be sensible and safe.

However insurance companies have been known to get stroppy and say they weren't standard issue, oh, and refuse to pay up.

[Joyce]

My son has his winter tyres stored in our garage. Thought when he got garden shed he'd remove them. Duh! 

[Taz2]

Insurance companies differ over whether they need to be informed about winter tyres. The ABI have produced a list of insurers and their take on this https://www.abi.org.uk/Insurance-and-savings/Products/Motor-insurance/Winter-tyres 

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[Limpy]

Taz - that list is really useful - Thanks

[Taz2]

I have a friend in Germany who came to stay for a while. She was delayed here for longer than she meant to and was worried because she had brought her car over here with summer tyres and might not have made the deadline to have winter tyres fitted on her return which would have been illegal. She researched a bit about winter tyres while here to try to find the cheapest deal. I hadn't even thought about them until then.

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[Limpy]

We hadn't thought about it till the bad winters.
People round here fitted winter tyres, thinking that was the thing to do, then got told off by their insurance companies. It's good to get information from the ABI.

[CLKD]

Winter tyres in Mainland Europe are compulsory from November I think ........ they get proper weather over there 

[honeybun]

We get proper weather up here too CLKD. We are just under the misapprehension that we can drive 

Some parts of Scotland are nearer Norway than they are the south of England.


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[CLKD]

  ………

People down here think they can drive too ……. using their mobiles, drinking coffee, reading the paper, putting on mascara: and that's the men!

A woman drove past our house yesterday whilst DH and I were having a cuppa in the shade: she was texting on her mobile with her window down, well guess who leapt up shouting 'put your mobile down now'  - and it wasn't Hubby  .  Had he not been with me I would have chased her down the road 

What was the question again ……..

[honeybun]

Have not got a clue CLKD but I'm pretty sure it wasn't anything to do with cars 



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[Limpy]

Well done CLKD 

[CLKD]

   I'll be watching for her next time: we don't have nets for a reason 

[minkusmum]

Winter tyres are compulsory here in Switzerland (what a surprise). If you have an accident and you haven't got them it invalidates your insurance, so most people do it automatically. Where we live there are quite a few foreigners, including Arabs, so we usually get a laugh watching them trying to drive with summer tyres after the first snowfall. M husband is usually out there helping them push.

[CLKD]

There was an article in yesterday's paper suggesting that 'we' are going to get cheap rate electricity over-night, like it was a new idea  , however, the Fire Service are begging people NOT to leave their white goods unattended due to the many tumble drier/dish washer flaws that have caused often fatal fires