Macan in the snow/ ice

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Wing Commander wrote: Fri Dec 21, 2018 10:34 am Cheshire Cat, prices are much lower than you think. Taken today from the Porsche Tequipment website:

18" winter wheels & tyres = from £1,949 including VAT.
19" " " " " = from £2,766 including VAT.
20" " " " " = from £3,664 including VAT.

No reason that your 21" shod Macan can't 'slum it' on 18" wheels for a few months over the winter. ;)
Very much agree on using smaller narrower tyres as winter options, of course still using aproved sizes. Especially on snow, narrower is much better. Thats what I've always done. I had a similar bad experience with a Touareg on snow with wide summer tyres. The thing just didnt want to alter course or stop. A nightmare.
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I received an email from Design 911 yesterday with some winter wheel and tyre offers. Might be worth checking them out.


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My S is transformed on 19 inch winter rubber. "1's are parked up 'till April
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Guys although I'd decided against selling my 18" setup, if anyone was genuinely interested message me for a deal at £1250, they've covered 150 miles as the car barely moves. Wheels are the 18" set off a 15k miles car refurbished black, tyres are N0 rated conti wintercontact TS830P, tpms fitted are brand new with black stems.
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Wing Commander wrote: Fri Dec 21, 2018 10:34 am Cheshire Cat, prices are much lower than you think. Taken today from the Porsche Tequipment website:

18" winter wheels & tyres = from £1,949 including VAT.
19" " " " " = from £2,766 including VAT.
20" " " " " = from £3,664 including VAT.

No reason that your 21" shod Macan can't 'slum it' on 18" wheels for a few months over the winter. ;)
!8" ain't going to happen. EBAY is full of 18 and 19" 'genuine' Porsche wheels and N rated tyres for not much money. It's not so much the dosh as the need. I've gone almost 50 years without Winter tyres on my cars and the only issue I had was doing a 360 or more in a Ford Escort on Cross Ply tyres one winter. Must have been the power from the 1.3 lt motor :roll:
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Not my advert, but I just saw these on eBay - AFAIK these fit all Macan wheel sizes and could be a bargain for anyone planning a trip to the Alps, covid permitting!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/KONIG-THULE- ... SwDiZft~C2

Amazon are currently selling for £307.
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Post by CamGTS »

If you've never tried winters you have no idea what you are missing (or indeed talking about :roll: ). I run winters all year round and they are much better than summers or all seasons as an all round tyre. (Pun in there somewhere). They last longer too.
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Winters are supposed to wear fast and perform less well over 8 degrees.....
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Madelvic wrote: Sat Nov 21, 2020 7:20 pm Winters are supposed to wear fast and perform less well over 8 degrees.....
Hardly ever above 8 degrees in Scotland :lol: :lol: :lol:

Nicola and Boris permitting, I am due to visit Glencoe area in Mid April and if the trip looks likely to go ahead, my winter set won't be taken off until I get back.

With the cost of Macan alloys, it won't happen, but for my last two BMW's I found the overall improvement in wear rate by using a tyre roughly designed for the prevailing temperature paid for the sets of steel wheels my winters' tyres were on
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