Summer tyres: Continental ContiPremiumContact 2

This is the ‘do nothing’ approach, and is most likely to leave you stranded. The summer tyre had the least grip in both tests, and this was a new tyre – not worn rubber most of us drive on.

Just driving to the test area was tricky, with braking and cornering on snow poor at no more than walking pace.

For: No cost or effort to switchAgainst: Half the traction of a winter tyre in hard snow, poor braking and cornering