How can you tell if tyres are all season as opposed to summer? Do they have a specific code?
Thanks. I can’t see that symbol on the Bridgestone Turanzas that are on our new car, so I’m assuming that we don’t have them. The X1 is prone to some road noise, so I’m guessing they’ve gone with a very quiet tyre as a priority. Clearly winter or all season tyres are preferable in poor conditions, but we get snow around once every two or three years where we live and thankfully being retired we can just stay in, so it certainly wouldn’t be worth our while changing them and on balance I’d be better off sticking with the quietest tyres as I’d get the benefit from those year round. I guess my point is that if your car is supplied new with regular tyres and you don’t want, or need, winter or all season tyres, then having 4WD at least gives you some traction advantage over a 2WD car with exactly the same tyres. Certainly that’s been my experience when I’ve had to go out in snow. No problem at all in any of the 4WD’s we’ve had, but a ruddy nightmare in my rear wheel drive BMW.