MickyBee Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 Hi, I have just bought a 1.0 2013 Ecoboost and it's pretty awful in the snow (I'm used to a big diesel). Where can I get some steel rims, so I can stick some winter tyres on? I was looking on https://www.mytyres.co.uk/ but I have no idea what FLH,STH and Turnier mean, or what the kW or ccm are. Thanks, Mick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isetta Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 ccm is the engine size (cubic centimetres - more usually shown as cc) 1600ccm = 1.6 litre. KW is the power output of the engine. I don't know why they are showing it in KW to confuse us. In UK we normally show as bhp. 1bhp is about 0.75 kw roughly so if car is 100bhp engine then kw = approx 75kw. I don't know what the others are but as they seem to be showing engine size and power in ways that is more suited to mainland Europe terminology they may have done the same with the other stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isetta Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 just found this on a different website, sounds like it might be correct "Turnier is the estate (in German), guess FLH & SLH are hatchback and saloon." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JW1982 Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 Turnier = Wagon (Estate) FLH = Fliessheck = Hatchback STH = Stufenheck = Sedan (Saloon) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobr Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 I have exactly the same car and I've had no problems in the snow. Have RainSport 3 tyres on the fronts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FatHead1979 Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 5 hours ago, Bobr said: I have exactly the same car and I've had no problems in the snow. Have RainSport 3 tyres on the fronts. A large part of the performance of a car in snow/ice/heavy rain is down to the tyres not the car, after all the tyres ARE the only things in contact with the road. Having experienced multiple big name brands of tyre and a few variants of cheapo LingLong "Ditchfinders" in poor weather, the RIGHT tyres make all the difference. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trailertrash Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 We don't get much snow in the West Country but we do get wet and muddy roads. I have recently gone for Michelin CrossClimate+ all round and I am very pleased with them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickyBee Posted January 1, 2018 Author Share Posted January 1, 2018 Thanks, yes I am tempted by the Cross Climates, a few friends have them. They are pretty expensive and I think that we have made the decision to get a set of winter wheels and swap them over, like they do on the continent, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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