Originally Posted By Rob Thornton
I have been contemplating Cross Climates when I come to renew my tyres this year very happy with them on my Volvo and am now encouraged by your Morgan experience. Would be interested to know whether your fuel consumption has been affected, particularly when touring.

Rob. There are a couple of things to consider.

Firstly the tyres are uni-directional. If you have a spare wheel it is probably best to leave it as the original or, get a bidirectional tyre for the spare. This is not something that I had considered and the spare is really only valid for one side. I have never needed the spare anyway and if I had thought about it I would have kept the original unused tyre.

I found a slight difference in traction by comparison to the original Yokohama tyres under hard acceleration in a 90° turn in hot dry conditions, for example out of a side street onto a main road. Nothing to worry about, just a bit of tyre squeal, but if you are always driving like you had stolen it you may want something with a bit more grip.

Having said all that I would not hesitate to fit them again. Interestingly Callum had a CrossClimate fitted to the rear of Red Three and he quite liked it too.

Peter

[Linked Image]