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E53 manual says this:



Wikipedia says in the North America its 3PMSF ("Three Peak Mountain Snow Flake"), nothing defined for Europe.


The AA says 'The sidewall of a winter tyre will be marked with a symbol showing a snowflake or snow-topped mountains'.

Black Circles says 'If an all-season tyre bears the "M + S" mark on the sidewall, these will be considered as an adequate alternative', for example for Austia.

So in summary real winter tyres are 3PMSFs, although Europe seems to accept M+S tyres as well. Correct?

Country rules vary, but this article might help.

Note also the comment about the freezing point of UK diesel compared to EU diesel.

Richard

Voila, from our own forum: http://xdrivers.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,2646.0.html

I saw this before and was gong to reply  "tyres made for winter conditions" oh and I think they should have a snowflake on them &/or on marketing material.

I bought Dunlop Winter Sports. Tyre wall Suitably designed with the snowflake and all that:).

Off eBay from Germany, 7+mil thread, £330 for the lot.

There are loads out there but I wanted thread depth (min 4 for snow), wanted proper snow stuff not just M+S which is actually crap.

were they staggered ? what size ? keep posted what they are like as have Vreds on mine will need to change next year .

didin't spot this post.

i bought the OEM 17" off ebay, so not staggered on the winter kit.

could have bought for my standard rims as well but then a) i didn't want to compromise from the recommended if i was already spending; b)have to keep taking them off the rim everytime i want to swap summers to winters and the other way around. so went with oem 17"s.

they look like shopping trolley tyres though, compared to the fat-ass standard staggered kit!