Tyres on 2006 Jetta

[mikeg996]

Hi

I'm about to head in to the mountains with my 06 Jetta, how good are the tyres in snowy conditions? Do I need to go and buy winter tyres? They're [Pirelli] Bridgestone Potenzas. Any advice welcome!

EDIT: Pirelli don't make a lot of Potenzas, but Bridgestone seem to.

Edited by mikeg996 on Sunday 4th February 21:25

[mikeg996]

Reading on TyreTest.com it appears the Potenza 050 is worse than rubbish on snow. Looks like I'll be getting some snow tyres then.

[neil360]

Why don't you pack a set of chains (or snow socks) for the snow? Depending on what mountains you are going to you amy have to carry them by law.

[mikeg996]

neil360 said:

Why don't you pack a set of chains (or snow socks) for the snow? Depending on what mountains you are going to you amy have to carry them by law.

I'll be taking chains too, but they only become useful when there's quite a bit of snow on the ground. I want to avoid the feeling of sailing backwards down a ravine, looking at my two kids thinking, "probably should have bought some winter tyres".

I've ordered some Falken Eurowinter HS-437s, hopefully they will arrive in time.