Langers
Well-Known Member
just got in from ferrying the doris around (she is a care in the comunity carrer) loads of cul-de-sac's and off the main roads .
its started to rain/sleet here on top of compact snow/ice
my new bfg mt's were fookin amazing easily as good as the general at's
Yer it's a small difference... to be honest though, any Defender with a good driver should be able cope with 90% of snow/ice situations regardless of tyre choice. Last year on my 110 I was running two worn out Goodyear Wrangler 7.50 R16s, and two ancient 'bar grip' muds, and it still pulled its way through the worst of it.
The right tyres however just seem to give you that extra 10% that you need sometimes. T'would be quite interesting to do a proper scientific comparison side-by-side of road tyres vs A/Ts vs M/Ts, to see which would come out on top.