I’ve not noticed ANY negavite issues with them, come wet, dry, hot or cold. Personally, i see no eason NOT to have them on all year round!
The only negative I've spotted is that four Cross Climate van tyres cost me £640😳
They do appear to be quite good though....
Our Fiat Ducati ambulance prove the difference in tyres. They come with continental all seasons and they’re rubbish in most conditions. The replacements are Cross Climates and they are a completely different experience. The ambulance can actually get places!
They come with continental all seasons and they’re rubbish in most conditions
Via the tyre test site above I learned the Contis had a Silica upgrade in 2021 which improved them a lot. They also perform better when wider.
If you scroll through various testing sites this is borne out by those.
Switched the MPSS off my M2 out week before last with the temps dropping over to my winters (Conti 870p), the difference even before we started getting the cold weather in a rwd car is huge, add in a bit of snow and some ice and it changes the game completely. I was hoping for a good chunk of snow but its managed to avoid me so far with just a few dustings.
Apparently the winter tyre take up in the UK is somewhere around 2%, Probably be a lot less cars down embankments and in hedges if people just ran all season tyres as a minimum.
All seasons is all you need. In tyre tests of all season which include a winter tyre for comparison the all seasons get about 80-90% of the winter tyre performance on snow.
The big clear result from tyre tests is that summer tyres are useless on snow.
In this test - interestingly, the winter tyre came equal best overall with it's main flaw being poor dry braking.
https://www.tyrereviews.com/Article/2019-Auto-Express-All-Season-Tyre-Test.htm
All the crossclimate users - how did they fare in our (now seemingly annual) 3 months of 30 degrees? And when it got up to 40?
Feels weird saying that but they are the conditions I'm interested in knowing about now that we are getting those kind of summers - just as much as it sounds ^ like they're great in our general crap autumn/winter conditions
All the crossclimate users – how did they fare in our (now seemingly annual) 3 months of 30 degrees? And when it got up to 40?
this is not something I am concerned about in the NE Scotland
The only negative I’ve spotted is that four Cross Climate van tyres cost me £640😳
They do appear to be quite good though
£640!? I checked Asda Tyres and Blackcircles and they were cheaper than that. Fully fitted.
I kept the crossclimates on all summer… no bother at all. They’re not proper winter tyres, they’re genuine all season tyres that work well in winter.
this is not something I am concerned about in the NE Scotland
I think those 3 months were condensed into a Tuesday this year around here.
Yes missing having winter tyres and wheels for the now sold golf. Wife has cross climates on hers so I’ll use that if we have to go somewhere if there’s more snow at the weekend.
Can anyone comment if EV range has been significantly affected by putting on all seasons once their oem tyres wear out as if not that’s what I’ll do.
All the crossclimate users – how did they fare in our (now seemingly annual) 3 months of 30 degrees? And when it got up to 40?
Really don't notice them, they are designed for all year use. You might notice on back-to-back comparisons on a fast bendy road but day to day, they are fine. We had some Nokian Weatherproofs for a while, they did feel a bit squirmy in hot weather but if you google a picture you will see why! The crossclimates have a lot of rubber on the shoulder so they are also pretty good at resisting the tendency to scrub the shoulders off on roundabouts compared to other all-seasons.
£640!? I checked Asda Tyres and Blackcircles and they were cheaper than that. Fully fitted.
Premium commercial 8ply (ake LT/Light Truck) van tyres are expensive. The Falken Wildpeaks I fitted were £585, I had road biased all terrrain General Grabbers on there before but couldn't swallow the £680 cost! You can't fit the car ones.
Premium commercial 8ply (ake LT/Light Truck) van tyres are expensive. The Falken Wildpeaks I fitted were £585
Gotcha. I was just looking for my car.