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From: Bod on 6 Jan 2010 14:52 Stephen wrote: > "Bod" <bodron57(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message > news:7qivm2Fon2U1(a)mid.individual.net... >> How many drivers in this group actually fit winter tyres? >> >> >> My hunch is......not many. >> >> Bod > > I drive my know plough everywhere all year round... helps to get the bmws > out of the way ;-p > > I'm thinking of fitting caterpillar tracks for the snow. Sod yer silly winter tyres :-) Bod
From: Stephen on 6 Jan 2010 14:55 "Bod" <bodron57(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message news:7qk80jFi1kU2(a)mid.individual.net... > Stephen wrote: >> "Bod" <bodron57(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message >> news:7qivm2Fon2U1(a)mid.individual.net... >>> How many drivers in this group actually fit winter tyres? >>> >>> >>> My hunch is......not many. >>> >>> Bod >> >> I drive my know plough everywhere all year round... helps to get the bmws >> out of the way ;-p > I'm thinking of fitting caterpillar tracks for the snow. > Sod yer silly winter tyres :-) > > Bod hehe :) ... tommorow I might rty and get hold of a hovercraft like the chap in farnboro' drove it to his local pub :) ... man after my own heart.
From: Bod on 6 Jan 2010 14:58 Stephen wrote: > "Bod" <bodron57(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message > news:7qk80jFi1kU2(a)mid.individual.net... >> Stephen wrote: >>> "Bod" <bodron57(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message >>> news:7qivm2Fon2U1(a)mid.individual.net... >>>> How many drivers in this group actually fit winter tyres? >>>> >>>> >>>> My hunch is......not many. >>>> >>>> Bod >>> I drive my know plough everywhere all year round... helps to get the bmws >>> out of the way ;-p >> I'm thinking of fitting caterpillar tracks for the snow. >> Sod yer silly winter tyres :-) >> >> Bod > > hehe :) ... tommorow I might rty and get hold of a hovercraft like the chap > in farnboro' drove it to his local pub :) ... man after my own heart. > > I wonder if you can get done for drink driving while driving a hovercraft when pissed? Bod
From: Silk on 6 Jan 2010 16:00 On 06/01/2010 08:24, Bod wrote: > How many drivers in this group actually fit winter tyres? No one with any sense, because we have better things to spend our time and money on.
From: Ret. on 7 Jan 2010 03:33
Silk wrote: > On 06/01/2010 08:24, Bod wrote: >> How many drivers in this group actually fit winter tyres? > > No one with any sense, because we have better things to spend our time > and money on. I think, for most people, it has to be a case of a simple cost/benefit analysis. Look at it this way: There is a risk that any one of us on this thread could be killed sometime in the future by a roof-tile sliding off a shop roof when we are in town. Buying a crash helment, and wearing it whenever we were in town would reduce that risk to zero - so why aren't we all rushing out to buy crash helmets? The answer is obvious. Whilst there certainly *is* a risk of being killed by a falling roof tile, that risk is statistically insignificant and therefore, investing in a crash helmet to protect yourself against an insignificant risk is unjustified. So, moving onto winter tyres. The situation is somewhat more complicated because the cost/benefit analysis must include personal circumstances including the geographical area where you live and the type of motoring you undertake. The factors will be entirely different for a retired person living in Plymouth city centre and a farmer living in the Scottish Highlands. For me, it works out like this: Is there a risk that sometime in the future I will be involved in an accident, or become stranded, in winter conditions? Answer- yes, of course there is such a risk. Will fitting winter tyres remove that risk? Answer - no. Fitting winter tyres may well *reduce* that risk - but it certainly would not remove it. So how significant is the risk of me being involved in an accident or becoming stranded due to winter conditions? I can call upon very nearly 47 years of driving experience (including 30 years of driving police panda cars and traffic cars, all on summer tyres) to arrive at an answer. The fact is that in that mass of driving experience I have never been involved in an accident, nor become stranded due to using summer tyres in winter conditions. The answer, for me, to the 'risk' question, therefore, is that the risk is absolutely minimal. If the risk is minimal, and fitting winter tyres is no guarantee that I will not be involved in an accident nor prevented from becoming stuck, is the not inconsiderable expense of purchasing a full set of four tyres and wheels justified? The answer has to be a resounding 'NO'. Kev |