Daily driver Panamera - winter tyres worth it for U.K. ?

[S8QUATTRO]

90% of the time it’s driven on the M62 commute. Are winter tyres worth it?

Wheels and tyres sets and not mega bucks on eBay for a used set. Just wondering if anyone runs winters on theirs?

[braddo]

Or use 4-season tyres all year round?

[Cheib]

I use WInters on my Cayenne as I drive out to ski resorts a couple of times a year. I am no driving god but they give better stopping distances in the wet according to the stats.

The other thing is Porsche summer tyres seem to be a fairly hard compound as when it is cold at parking speeds you get a bit of judder on full lock. People call it the Ackerman effect but it disappears as soon as I put the Winters on so it is not Ackerman. I remember having a loan Panny a few winters ago and was shocked when it first happened.

[fflump]

Cheib said:

I use WInters on my Cayenne as I drive out to ski resorts a couple of times a year. I am no driving god but they give better stopping distances in the wet according to the stats.

The other thing is Porsche summer tyres seem to be a fairly hard compound as when it is cold at parking speeds you get a bit of judder on full lock. People call it the Ackerman effect but it disappears as soon as I put the Winters on so it is not Ackerman. I remember having a loan Panny a few winters ago and was shocked when it first happened.

I think that it is the Ackerman geometry that is set up to avoid tyres skipping/juddering works fine on full lock in the summer but when cold the low profile tyres and hardness of the summer tyre compound can make the car judder at full lock i.e. the Ackerman geometry can't quite cope with that situation.

[S8QUATTRO]

Just double checked mine - all season Pirelli on the rear so will stick with them for now

Hopefully good enough for the UK Winter

[Higgs boson]

I'm 54 degrees North, and as soon as the frosts start, the 18" winters go on - especially as I'm in a rural location.

[NickyF]

Pilot Sport 4S work fine in any temperature except when it gets really cold, sub zero. Obviously snow isn’t great either. Snow and ice are pretty rare round my way so I never bother with winter tyres.