Volvo V70 2.5
(205/55 R16) on
a combination of roads
for 8,000
average miles
I’m not a tire expert and I don’t push a car to its limits so I don’t feel qualified to score these tires but I will say this... I acquired these tires second hand last year on the advice of my garage; they had very little wear. I drove from London to Les Arcs, Val d’Isere and Celerina and back and there was a lot of snow on the roads and I felt the Cooper Weathermaster Snows handled admirably. This year, I drove to Lech with them. 6 feet of snow but the roads had been cleared. All good until the final 400 metres of unusually steep road... I couldn’t get my car up there! All manner of other cars (without chains) made it up and down daily, My local hotelier (who’d lived on that road all his life) couldn’t, either. We even tried reversing up (to have more weight on the driving tires). In the end, I had to put chains on. “Not good tires,†was his verdict. Mine is: they’re fine if driven in towns and motorways and not aggressively on ordinary (ie not very steep) mountain roads.