If by Magic the Tires Have Gone...

As I sit here thinking about my experience with winter tires, I find myself wondering what it would be like to have a car that could magically adapt to any driving conditions. Just imagine if the tires had gone, and the seats had been put up overnight. I'd be on a completely different piece of road, but somehow still in the same car I love. The excitement of not knowing what to expect would be exhilarating! And then, as I look around, I see that welcome sign - "Oh, baby, now I have driven here from the house and look out on the public road really." It's a welcome back to the real world, where the differences between winter and all-season tires are about to become clear.

The Difference Between Winter and All-Season Tires

I've had my fair share of driving in different conditions, but there's one thing that never fails to amaze me - the difference between winter and all-season tires. When it's dry like today, with not a cloud in the sky, I can feel the car responding to every turn and corner. The tread blocks seem to grip the road perfectly, and I find myself enjoying the car even more. But when I put on my full winter tires, I'm struck by how different everything feels. In the colder conditions, the car just seems to feel more secure, more stable. It's a difference that's hard to ignore.

The Dry Braking Performance of Winter Tires

One thing that's really noticeable is the dry braking performance of these tires. When I hit the brakes on this car with winter tires, it's like the car comes alive. The stopping power is so much better than when I'm driving in all-season conditions. It's a real confidence booster, knowing that I can trust my car to stop quickly and effectively, no matter what the road throws at me.

A Compromise?

So, if I were to do it again, would I choose winter tires or all-season tires? For where I live, I think an all-season tire would be a better compromise. It's not ideal, but it would get me through the winter months without breaking the bank. And who knows, maybe one day they'll make an all-season tire that matches the performance of these winter tires! But if I lived in the north of England or Scotland, where the weather is far more unpredictable, I think a good set of winter tires would be the way to go.

The Costs and Logistics

Of course, there's no getting around the fact that switching between winter and all-season tires can be a bit of a hassle. You'll need to have two sets of wheels, or find a car with an estate boot that you can store your spare tires in. And then there's the cost - I paid £20 for my set of tires, which is just a small part of the overall expense. But if it means feeling safer on the road, especially in harsh winter conditions, I think it's well worth it.

One Thing to Note

One thing that struck me about driving with winter tires was how much they affected the car's behavior. The counters sound good, but it's not just about the sound - it's about the feel of the car. With winter tires, I felt like I had a bit more grip and control on the road. It's a subtle difference, but one that made all the difference in my driving experience.

Conclusion

All in all, I'm really happy with how these winter tires performed. They're not perfect, but they've given me peace of mind when driving in harsh conditions. And who knows? Maybe next year I'll be doing it again! But for now, I'm looking forward to enjoying the dry weather and feeling the car respond to every turn and corner.

And that's a wrap!

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys and welcome to petrol pet and welcome to my carbon 19 daily vlog uploading a new video every evening at 6 p.m. to keep you sane during lockdown now way back at the end of November last year I fitted winter tires to the s4 it was part of a campaign I was doing with Hankook tires a fitted winter tires and therefore the summer tires came off and they have been in storage in my shed up until now I've wanted to actually put them on the car hot obviously since maybe the end of February early part of March but because a lock down I've not been able to and now we are here nearly at the end of May and I'm still running winter tires on the s4 and it's a beautiful warm spring as well it's not an ideal tire to be running but thankfully the restrictions have lifted enough so that tomorrow morning I can take the s4 to the local fitment garage and swap the tires over yes first off I do probably need to say under normal circumstances I wouldn't have kept the winters on the car this long they'd have certainly been in and been changed in kinda March time but unfortunately lockdown happened pretty much at the point where I was thinking I was gonna get the tires change and here we are now very nearly in June and I'm still running them but it has actually been quite interesting running winters on the coins such warm weather conditions now later on in this video I'm gonna talk about the actual driving feel and how I've found having winter tires on the pros and the cons I guess just to start with though a couple of things first off I also want to talk about whether or not winters would the right choice for me and whether I should have gone down the all seasonal route but if you saw my video I made one actually put these tires on I was doing a promotion with Hankook and and Hankook don't do and all season tire in the right size and speed rating for the s4 so I had no choice but to put winters on and so I will talk a bit later on about what my conclusions are on that you can see a huge difference in the tire in terms of the tread design these little sites the compound of the rubber is designed for cold conditions snowy conditions whereas this is a full kind of summer tire but one interesting thing and it's an obvious thing to states I've stacked the tires up like this if you are gonna put winter tires on a car you do need to think about where your summer tires are gonna live for the winter I know some dealers will kind of do a little storage thing so you might have to pay them as fee for that or I just had these in my shed but they do take up quite a bit of space and that is something to think about the other thing is you will notice that they're literally just tires there's no wheels in there so I'm having to use the same wheels for both sets which means that when I change them over clearly there is a cost involved in doing that but it's not a stupid amount of money it depends on where you go but you're probably looking at somewhere between 20 to 30 pounds per tire for fitment it's not a massive cost in the grand scheme of things but space is certainly a bigger thing but it might be that you decide to go for a second set of wheels and have the winter tires or all season tires on those permit and it's just a simple job you can do at home just to swap all the wheels around unfortunately I need to go to a tire fitment place tomorrow and so the appointments quite early in the morning so I'm gonna load the tires up into the back of the car this is another thing I guess luckily I've got an estate car so there's room in the back for four spare tires if you had a saloon or a sports car again that means you probably need to have a think about some kind of solution for storing the tires over the winter for you I'm gonna drop these in the back of the car I'll see you in the morning when we had head over to the local tire fitment place swap them over and then because it's going to be a beautiful day tomorrow I thought we go for a nice drive and talk to you about what I found having winter tires on the car and whether I think it was a good idea or not maybe there was a better solution for me well good morning people it is now the next morning and I have loaded all the tires into the s4 and it now smells like a massive condom instincts in here reminds me of the time I went for a an apprenticeship interview at Michelin tires and we went round the factory and stuff and the smell was just like and it's just helped my car smells right now I nearly loaded the tires up last night so that I didn't have so many things to do and Fanny around with this morning and I'm so glad I didn't because I think the car would have smelled like rubber for ages so it's a very short drive to the entire place I'm going to you today they're the guys that fitted the tires in the first place see it's not too far a drive but I thought I could at least have a chat with you about my experience is driving with the winter tyres so the first thing to stay is I live in the South of England and we had a really mild winter which is when you wanting to do a winter tire test isn't great really in fact the only time it was really it'd be cold and we saw snow I wasn't in this car I was in an m5 competition on summer tires and it was terrifying but the days where we did have it very cold I could notice a difference and one of the things you night they kind of need to think about we winter tires is the obvious thing to think about is when it snows but it's actually whenever the temperature drops below about kind of seven six seven eight degrees Celsius the different compound of rubber just bites into the tarmac a little bit more and just gives you a bit more grip in really cold conditions so it doesn't necessarily have to be icy or snowy even just in cold wet conditions I did find that the winter tyres just gave me that little bit more confidence in the car the big question is did I need to go for a full winter tire or would an all-season tire have been okay and to be honest and I really wanted to go all season anyway because our weather just isn't inclement enough down here it's just not cold enough to really justify a full winter tire and there is an argument to say oh good all season tire you can actually run all year round if you're not going to be doing too much extreme driving and you know he wouldn't go wanna go on a track day with an all season tire on the full winter tire when it wasn't cold in conditions like this actually if you're just driving around normally you probably wouldn't notice to be honest you know with the greatest of respect to mrs. petrol ped she wouldn't have known whether there was summer tires or winter tires on the car it doesn't make a huge amount of difference the road noise wasn't that different it's just when the conditions start to get in Clement or when you push on a little bit you just start to feel that there's something slightly different keeping you connected to the road if you push on on this winter tire in conditions like this it's just a little bit more tacky and it doesn't quite grip as well and for sure things like dry weather braking performance wouldn't be as good now touchwood I'm lucky I haven't had an emergency braking situation but it's a fact that if you've got a winter tire compared to a summer tire under dry braking conditions that summit R is going to win likewise in wet weather braking conditions the winter tires probably going to do better so you know there are circumstances where having a winter tire on when it's not winter isn't a great thing now the question is would an all-weather tire have been a better choice I think undoubtedly as I said in my intro unfortunately Han kook who I was doing the promotion with who effectively gave me the set of tires didn't have an all season tire to fit my car and mady's the only reason I went for a full winter on the car you know and and you know if I was spending my own money and I would have gone for an all season tire they just give you a better compromise between their kind of dry weather performance you get with a summer tire and the cold and wet weather performance you get with the winter time they are a compromise but I think in the South of England of where I live and the types of weather we get I think that compromise would have been absolutely perfect and I don't necessarily think a winter tire a full winter tire down here is something that we need I've lived down down here now for what although I'm from the Midlands I've lived down here for 25-30 years and I can count on one hand the number of times we've had really heavy snow and really bad inclement weather where a winter tire would have been a lifesaver the other thing to note is because this car has the four-wheel drive system Quattro four-wheel drive even on a summer tire that can helped you get out of some issues but what it doesn't help you get out of issues with these things like breaking it doesn't matter whether you've got four-wheel drive or two-wheel drive when you're braking that's the tires job and your braking systems job and your stability control systems job and then just general traction out of the corner four-wheel drive helps a lot I think if you are driving a rear-wheel drive car especially a BMW I think moving to an all-season or winter tire it would be an absolute must because you know I'm not being w bashing here because Mercedes are just as bad at it a massive pot Wow but yeah the the having a pure rear-wheel drive you speak to any Mercedes or BMW driver when the weather gets cold especially if it gets snowy their cars almost become unusable and I know quite a few people who've put winters on and then they're they're fine you know they can deal with quite with quite inclement weather so we're not a million miles away from protoid where I'm going to get my tires changed over I'm not sure I'm not going to probably film too much around the process of swapping the tires over I think we've all seen tires being fitted I'm also not sure what their coronavirus measures are going to be like I doubt this time I'm going to be allowed in the workshop like I was last time so what we'll do is we'll park up now get the tires switched over then what I'm gonna do is I'll Drive home get rid of because obviously on the way back I've got to put those the winter tires in the back of the car I'll drop go home drop them off and then we'll go for a nice drive and I'm really looking forward to driving the s4 back on it's summers well I've arrived I've unloaded all the tires and now I've got two gone basically amuse myself for about an hour typically because of the covert stuff they got no waiting facility so I'm going to go and have a nice walk around the local vicinity while I sawed the tires over for me well that was quite painless had a bit of a walk around for an hour while they swap the tyres over I thought I wasn't able to get any footage of them changing their tyres over one thing I have noticed though here the difference between the winter tyres and their summer tyres upon is their overhang on the rim of the winter tyres is far less pronounced than it is on the summer tyres and and I guess that overhang is there to try and protect you from curbing as much as possible in my experience it kind of helps to a point but at the end of the day if you're gonna curb a wheel you're gonna curb a wheel no matter how much of an overhang the tire has but it does just make you it may be a bit more of a comfort factor I think the summer tire certainly look like there'll be a little bit more curb proof than the winters I'm gonna head home but what I'm dying to do is basically drive this car like it's meant to be driven on summer tyres and I can't do that at the moment with all of these tires in the back anyway I am gonna drive the short distance home it's only about six miles and I'm going to basically get rid of these tires in the back and then we're gonna go for a bit of a drive so yeah let me go ditch these tires so by the magic of YouTube the tires in the back of the s4 are about to disappear haha and as if by magic the tires have gone the seats have been put up and I'm on a completely different piece of road but I just happened to be at the bottom of one of my favorite bit of Road I'm so excited about just getting to feel what these car is now Oh welcome back baby now I have driven here from the house and look on the public road really the difference between our winter and all season and a dry tire is really quite small but what I would say is already the car just feels that little bit more sure-footed it doesn't kind of feel quite as floaty problem with our full winter is the tread blocks just move around that's what they're meant to do but when it's dry like it is today and you stick it into a corner like that now the difference is quite noticeable there feeling through the steering just that little bit sharper that little bit more precise the car doesn't quite feel so floaty and these counters sound good that isn't it yeah like a now I'd start to enjoy the car far far more and then the other thing is I've already mentioned before the dry braking performance of this tire will be way way better than the winter so in conclusion then what do I think about having ran winter tires for the winter well I can't fully comment as I would have liked because we didn't really have a severe winter and when we did I didn't have the car with me but certainly in the colder conditions I did feel like the car had a little bit more grip when it when it dropped down below kind of seven degrees and it was raining and horrible a car just felt a little bit more secure and I like that a lot and I mean I'll certainly be running them again if I were to do it for the first time living where I do I'd definitely go all season tire I think that would be a better compromise but if you lived in the north of England or up in Scotland where the weather's far far more in Clement I think a winter tire would probably be the right choice so I think it really does depend on where you live terms of the costs and so on well to get those tires switched back was 20 pounds of tire so you're kind of looking at that twice a year aren't you plus the cost of the tires so obviously that depends a great deal on the manufacturer you go with and the car that you drive but I don't know let's say you're gonna go anything between 100 to 150 pounds of tire for the average kind of car so you know it's it's not a cheap thing to do but I think in terms of safety it's a really good one obviously the logistics of swapping the tires over if you don't have two sets of wheels is a pain and if you don't have an estate car like I do it's a really big pain and because getting the tires to the dealership unless the dealership for looking after those tires for you like many main dealers would I think that kind of tyre concierge type service would be well worth it for me if I'm lucky I've got an estate have to transport the tires and I've got somewhere to keep them over the winter and now obviously I've got to keep the winter tires over the summer so it is a pain so I think if you could have a spare set of wheels and I know what a lot of people do is they'll either buy a cheaper set of alloys or in some cases steel wheels especially if you're in a really grotty part of the world that gets lots of snow and salt on the road you might not want to run your best alloys through the winter and I think that makes it a lot easier because you can do the swap on your own at home all you need really is a trolley jack you know and a tire lever and a torque wrench to put the tires back on again and you're away so yeah there you go there's my findings really interesting my first ever running of winter tires on the whole a very positive experience I think in summary for me I I think all season tires will be better for me for where I live I went all winter tires as I've already explained I was doing somewhere with Hankook and actually the video that I did for them was about their all season tire but because of the kind of car I have unfortunately they don't do an all season tire for this but anyway it's good to be back in the s for this car I forget just how ridiculously fast bitchin car is but it feels so much more planted now is back on its summers anyway hope you enjoyed this one if you have done so please give me a thumbs up comments below are always welcome and if you haven't done so already please subscribe to Petra boat for plentiful causes pick up and I'll see all the next film guys but you take care stay safe the worldhey guys and welcome to petrol pet and welcome to my carbon 19 daily vlog uploading a new video every evening at 6 p.m. to keep you sane during lockdown now way back at the end of November last year I fitted winter tires to the s4 it was part of a campaign I was doing with Hankook tires a fitted winter tires and therefore the summer tires came off and they have been in storage in my shed up until now I've wanted to actually put them on the car hot obviously since maybe the end of February early part of March but because a lock down I've not been able to and now we are here nearly at the end of May and I'm still running winter tires on the s4 and it's a beautiful warm spring as well it's not an ideal tire to be running but thankfully the restrictions have lifted enough so that tomorrow morning I can take the s4 to the local fitment garage and swap the tires over yes first off I do probably need to say under normal circumstances I wouldn't have kept the winters on the car this long they'd have certainly been in and been changed in kinda March time but unfortunately lockdown happened pretty much at the point where I was thinking I was gonna get the tires change and here we are now very nearly in June and I'm still running them but it has actually been quite interesting running winters on the coins such warm weather conditions now later on in this video I'm gonna talk about the actual driving feel and how I've found having winter tires on the pros and the cons I guess just to start with though a couple of things first off I also want to talk about whether or not winters would the right choice for me and whether I should have gone down the all seasonal route but if you saw my video I made one actually put these tires on I was doing a promotion with Hankook and and Hankook don't do and all season tire in the right size and speed rating for the s4 so I had no choice but to put winters on and so I will talk a bit later on about what my conclusions are on that you can see a huge difference in the tire in terms of the tread design these little sites the compound of the rubber is designed for cold conditions snowy conditions whereas this is a full kind of summer tire but one interesting thing and it's an obvious thing to states I've stacked the tires up like this if you are gonna put winter tires on a car you do need to think about where your summer tires are gonna live for the winter I know some dealers will kind of do a little storage thing so you might have to pay them as fee for that or I just had these in my shed but they do take up quite a bit of space and that is something to think about the other thing is you will notice that they're literally just tires there's no wheels in there so I'm having to use the same wheels for both sets which means that when I change them over clearly there is a cost involved in doing that but it's not a stupid amount of money it depends on where you go but you're probably looking at somewhere between 20 to 30 pounds per tire for fitment it's not a massive cost in the grand scheme of things but space is certainly a bigger thing but it might be that you decide to go for a second set of wheels and have the winter tires or all season tires on those permit and it's just a simple job you can do at home just to swap all the wheels around unfortunately I need to go to a tire fitment place tomorrow and so the appointments quite early in the morning so I'm gonna load the tires up into the back of the car this is another thing I guess luckily I've got an estate car so there's room in the back for four spare tires if you had a saloon or a sports car again that means you probably need to have a think about some kind of solution for storing the tires over the winter for you I'm gonna drop these in the back of the car I'll see you in the morning when we had head over to the local tire fitment place swap them over and then because it's going to be a beautiful day tomorrow I thought we go for a nice drive and talk to you about what I found having winter tires on the car and whether I think it was a good idea or not maybe there was a better solution for me well good morning people it is now the next morning and I have loaded all the tires into the s4 and it now smells like a massive condom instincts in here reminds me of the time I went for a an apprenticeship interview at Michelin tires and we went round the factory and stuff and the smell was just like and it's just helped my car smells right now I nearly loaded the tires up last night so that I didn't have so many things to do and Fanny around with this morning and I'm so glad I didn't because I think the car would have smelled like rubber for ages so it's a very short drive to the entire place I'm going to you today they're the guys that fitted the tires in the first place see it's not too far a drive but I thought I could at least have a chat with you about my experience is driving with the winter tyres so the first thing to stay is I live in the South of England and we had a really mild winter which is when you wanting to do a winter tire test isn't great really in fact the only time it was really it'd be cold and we saw snow I wasn't in this car I was in an m5 competition on summer tires and it was terrifying but the days where we did have it very cold I could notice a difference and one of the things you night they kind of need to think about we winter tires is the obvious thing to think about is when it snows but it's actually whenever the temperature drops below about kind of seven six seven eight degrees Celsius the different compound of rubber just bites into the tarmac a little bit more and just gives you a bit more grip in really cold conditions so it doesn't necessarily have to be icy or snowy even just in cold wet conditions I did find that the winter tyres just gave me that little bit more confidence in the car the big question is did I need to go for a full winter tire or would an all-season tire have been okay and to be honest and I really wanted to go all season anyway because our weather just isn't inclement enough down here it's just not cold enough to really justify a full winter tire and there is an argument to say oh good all season tire you can actually run all year round if you're not going to be doing too much extreme driving and you know he wouldn't go wanna go on a track day with an all season tire on the full winter tire when it wasn't cold in conditions like this actually if you're just driving around normally you probably wouldn't notice to be honest you know with the greatest of respect to mrs. petrol ped she wouldn't have known whether there was summer tires or winter tires on the car it doesn't make a huge amount of difference the road noise wasn't that different it's just when the conditions start to get in Clement or when you push on a little bit you just start to feel that there's something slightly different keeping you connected to the road if you push on on this winter tire in conditions like this it's just a little bit more tacky and it doesn't quite grip as well and for sure things like dry weather braking performance wouldn't be as good now touchwood I'm lucky I haven't had an emergency braking situation but it's a fact that if you've got a winter tire compared to a summer tire under dry braking conditions that summit R is going to win likewise in wet weather braking conditions the winter tires probably going to do better so you know there are circumstances where having a winter tire on when it's not winter isn't a great thing now the question is would an all-weather tire have been a better choice I think undoubtedly as I said in my intro unfortunately Han kook who I was doing the promotion with who effectively gave me the set of tires didn't have an all season tire to fit my car and mady's the only reason I went for a full winter on the car you know and and you know if I was spending my own money and I would have gone for an all season tire they just give you a better compromise between their kind of dry weather performance you get with a summer tire and the cold and wet weather performance you get with the winter time they are a compromise but I think in the South of England of where I live and the types of weather we get I think that compromise would have been absolutely perfect and I don't necessarily think a winter tire a full winter tire down here is something that we need I've lived down down here now for what although I'm from the Midlands I've lived down here for 25-30 years and I can count on one hand the number of times we've had really heavy snow and really bad inclement weather where a winter tire would have been a lifesaver the other thing to note is because this car has the four-wheel drive system Quattro four-wheel drive even on a summer tire that can helped you get out of some issues but what it doesn't help you get out of issues with these things like breaking it doesn't matter whether you've got four-wheel drive or two-wheel drive when you're braking that's the tires job and your braking systems job and your stability control systems job and then just general traction out of the corner four-wheel drive helps a lot I think if you are driving a rear-wheel drive car especially a BMW I think moving to an all-season or winter tire it would be an absolute must because you know I'm not being w bashing here because Mercedes are just as bad at it a massive pot Wow but yeah the the having a pure rear-wheel drive you speak to any Mercedes or BMW driver when the weather gets cold especially if it gets snowy their cars almost become unusable and I know quite a few people who've put winters on and then they're they're fine you know they can deal with quite with quite inclement weather so we're not a million miles away from protoid where I'm going to get my tires changed over I'm not sure I'm not going to probably film too much around the process of swapping the tires over I think we've all seen tires being fitted I'm also not sure what their coronavirus measures are going to be like I doubt this time I'm going to be allowed in the workshop like I was last time so what we'll do is we'll park up now get the tires switched over then what I'm gonna do is I'll Drive home get rid of because obviously on the way back I've got to put those the winter tires in the back of the car I'll drop go home drop them off and then we'll go for a nice drive and I'm really looking forward to driving the s4 back on it's summers well I've arrived I've unloaded all the tires and now I've got two gone basically amuse myself for about an hour typically because of the covert stuff they got no waiting facility so I'm going to go and have a nice walk around the local vicinity while I sawed the tires over for me well that was quite painless had a bit of a walk around for an hour while they swap the tyres over I thought I wasn't able to get any footage of them changing their tyres over one thing I have noticed though here the difference between the winter tyres and their summer tyres upon is their overhang on the rim of the winter tyres is far less pronounced than it is on the summer tyres and and I guess that overhang is there to try and protect you from curbing as much as possible in my experience it kind of helps to a point but at the end of the day if you're gonna curb a wheel you're gonna curb a wheel no matter how much of an overhang the tire has but it does just make you it may be a bit more of a comfort factor I think the summer tire certainly look like there'll be a little bit more curb proof than the winters I'm gonna head home but what I'm dying to do is basically drive this car like it's meant to be driven on summer tyres and I can't do that at the moment with all of these tires in the back anyway I am gonna drive the short distance home it's only about six miles and I'm going to basically get rid of these tires in the back and then we're gonna go for a bit of a drive so yeah let me go ditch these tires so by the magic of YouTube the tires in the back of the s4 are about to disappear haha and as if by magic the tires have gone the seats have been put up and I'm on a completely different piece of road but I just happened to be at the bottom of one of my favorite bit of Road I'm so excited about just getting to feel what these car is now Oh welcome back baby now I have driven here from the house and look on the public road really the difference between our winter and all season and a dry tire is really quite small but what I would say is already the car just feels that little bit more sure-footed it doesn't kind of feel quite as floaty problem with our full winter is the tread blocks just move around that's what they're meant to do but when it's dry like it is today and you stick it into a corner like that now the difference is quite noticeable there feeling through the steering just that little bit sharper that little bit more precise the car doesn't quite feel so floaty and these counters sound good that isn't it yeah like a now I'd start to enjoy the car far far more and then the other thing is I've already mentioned before the dry braking performance of this tire will be way way better than the winter so in conclusion then what do I think about having ran winter tires for the winter well I can't fully comment as I would have liked because we didn't really have a severe winter and when we did I didn't have the car with me but certainly in the colder conditions I did feel like the car had a little bit more grip when it when it dropped down below kind of seven degrees and it was raining and horrible a car just felt a little bit more secure and I like that a lot and I mean I'll certainly be running them again if I were to do it for the first time living where I do I'd definitely go all season tire I think that would be a better compromise but if you lived in the north of England or up in Scotland where the weather's far far more in Clement I think a winter tire would probably be the right choice so I think it really does depend on where you live terms of the costs and so on well to get those tires switched back was 20 pounds of tire so you're kind of looking at that twice a year aren't you plus the cost of the tires so obviously that depends a great deal on the manufacturer you go with and the car that you drive but I don't know let's say you're gonna go anything between 100 to 150 pounds of tire for the average kind of car so you know it's it's not a cheap thing to do but I think in terms of safety it's a really good one obviously the logistics of swapping the tires over if you don't have two sets of wheels is a pain and if you don't have an estate car like I do it's a really big pain and because getting the tires to the dealership unless the dealership for looking after those tires for you like many main dealers would I think that kind of tyre concierge type service would be well worth it for me if I'm lucky I've got an estate have to transport the tires and I've got somewhere to keep them over the winter and now obviously I've got to keep the winter tires over the summer so it is a pain so I think if you could have a spare set of wheels and I know what a lot of people do is they'll either buy a cheaper set of alloys or in some cases steel wheels especially if you're in a really grotty part of the world that gets lots of snow and salt on the road you might not want to run your best alloys through the winter and I think that makes it a lot easier because you can do the swap on your own at home all you need really is a trolley jack you know and a tire lever and a torque wrench to put the tires back on again and you're away so yeah there you go there's my findings really interesting my first ever running of winter tires on the whole a very positive experience I think in summary for me I I think all season tires will be better for me for where I live I went all winter tires as I've already explained I was doing somewhere with Hankook and actually the video that I did for them was about their all season tire but because of the kind of car I have unfortunately they don't do an all season tire for this but anyway it's good to be back in the s for this car I forget just how ridiculously fast bitchin car is but it feels so much more planted now is back on its summers anyway hope you enjoyed this one if you have done so please give me a thumbs up comments below are always welcome and if you haven't done so already please subscribe to Petra boat for plentiful causes pick up and I'll see all the next film guys but you take care stay safe the world\n"