At the end of this October my wife and I drove to Stockholm to visit our daughter. I panicked about possible bad weather conditions a couple of days before we set off, so had two new tyres fitted to the front, even though the fronts had 5mm tread and the rears (Avons) nearly 6mm. The tyre depot manager recommended Bridgestone A001 ‘all weather’ tyres. Glad he did. We hit snow not long after entering Sweden and our car, a 2008 Octavia 1.9TDI estate, coped wonderfully. Our traction control light did not illuminate once. We did 2500 miles, mostly on motorways cruising at 70-75mph.