Everyone taken off their winters yet?

[MINIme:)]

I'm thinking surely 'soon'! Anyone heard of any mad :snow: heading this way?? :

[Mon the fish]

Winters are now staying on the Clubby for a larger part of the year than the summer rims

[ELFMAN]

Winters are now staying on the Clubby for a larger part of the year than the summer rims

Well, the Winter seems to be staying for longer than any other part of the year... :frown:

[Craig]

Already off both ;)

[ianking]

Had new summer tyres fitted on Saturday.

I think you will be fine to remove them.

[Neil - TXJ]

Hope to take mine off this weekend although haven't seen above 7 degrees very often.

[Stewart]

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We are due a heat wave :thumbs up: I tell you!

[Gismo]

Erm, just run mine all year :Whistle:

[Stewart]

Aye but you have snakes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hate Snakes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:smilewinkgrin:

[Mini Ecosse]

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We are due a heat wave :thumbs up: I tell you!

:off topic: Kelly's Hero's, brilliant film :thumbs up:

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Never had winters on mini, but other car going in for a service next week so will come out with the summer boots on:thumbs up:

[Mon the fish]

Still not got above 4 degrees here, so winters remain for the next few days at least. I don't care, my car is parked in the garage going nowhere!

[Alex from NM]

Sunday. No choice really, need to get the 4 new summer ones scrubbed in before Highland run

[stoney]

nope well not off the van where only on the GP for 2 days :lol: but i go skiing so still snowing up the hills the now so prob wont come off till end of month/ middle of next month :)

[Duncan Stewart]

Took mine off last Saturday, and drove to work in snow on Monday - typical!

[MINIme:)]

yeah I'm thinking I'll try and sort something out soon. Apart from anything else I'm getting bored of people asking "what happened to your wheels?" and "didn't you want alloys?" .......and then snorting at me for having winters cos they are so pointless. Apparently. I don't care, I like having them :yes nod:

[AndyP & Lenore]

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We are due a heat wave :thumbs up: I tell you!

Love it. Love that movie. One of Clint's best (of that era) in my humble opinion.:thumbs up:

As for Winters... Ahem, took mine off mid March. just before we got all that frikkin snow!!! :frown::frown:

[Angib]

I was just thinking today, as I slipped and slid around some little country roads, that this weekend might be the time to swap.

But even down 'ere, just in England, I haven't been seeing much of the magic 10 degrees that makes me worry about driving on winters, and I have been seeing those 3 or 4 degree mornings when the winters are useful psychologically, if not in reality.

But like most Springs, I can't wait for that extra cornering grip on summers.

[rpn]

Made the change-over last weekend after having the summer alloys refurbished. Will post up some pics soon.

[Mon the fish]

yeah I'm thinking I'll try and sort something out soon. Apart from anything else I'm getting bored of people asking "what happened to your wheels?" and "didn't you want alloys?" .......and then snorting at me for having winters cos they are so pointless. Apparently. I don't care, I like having them :yes nod:

Paint them orange, then tell them you're rocking the GT40 look

[MINIme:)]

oh yeah :smug:

[Neil - TXJ]

Job done - 40 mins. Took me half a day when I first started found it 😄

[MINIme:)]

it would take me about a week if I tried to do it myself. Actually my back is really playing up and I'm not sure it's even a good idea for me to lug them out of the shed and try and hoik them into the boot :sad:

[Angib]

It's thread resurrection time again!

I finally took my winters off last weekend which seems to have been good timing as the temperature has really gone up, even if it doesn't feel it in the wind.

So I finally got all the grime off the winters and found several small dried-up river beds in the inside edge of the rims - no wonder the wheel balance didn't feel too good! That's probably a penalty of running 17" winters as the wider rim gives plenty of space for muck to settle.

Taking wheels off to clean the backs of the rims on a regular basis is one of those things that I think life is waaay too short for - I rate it up there with only serving biscuits on a plate with a paper doilie and permanenetly keeping plastic covers over the living room furniture.

I also thought I would take out all the small stones embedded in the rear tyres - there were none stuck in the front tyres where I guess the traction effort throws them out. And there were so many that I had to record this scientific find. This is the contents of each rear tyre with a 20p piece for comparison.

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[MINIme:)]

nice! I hope you recorded which was left and which was right. You should keep them for next year and compare again :thumbs up:
Mine are still pending but will be swapping in next week or so. The winters have been feeling quite unsteady recently, even out of the wind, ...probably relating to the fact I haven't checked the pressure for ages! :blush: need another week in my week.

[Stewart]

I also thought I would take out all the small stones embedded in the rear tyres - there were none stuck in the front tyres where I guess the traction effort throws them out. And there were so many that I had to record this scientific find. This is the contents of each rear tyre with a 20p piece for comparison.

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All this technology and its comes to this, I’m looking at stones on a plate that came out mini tyres. And the really sad part its the most interesting post of the night on here! :smilewinkgrin:

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