Looking closely at the new 'un (MY11 SD4 HSE) it seems to be sitting on Pirelli Scorpion Zero tyres.

Anyone got any experience of them in the snow?

Andy 2011 MY SD4 HSE + planning some interesting stuff
Previously: 2004 Discovery Td5 ES Premium + lots of stuff
Previously: P38A Range Rover 4.0 SE
Hampshire and Berkshire 4x4 Response Founder and Treasurer

Yes, I have.
I almost shìt my pants when at one moment the car started to slide laterally...
Yes, the road had a little lateral gradient but nowhere near to justify such a behavior...

I have them on mine.

no real issues and have been happy with them so far, but at 25000mls they are showing their age a bit and think I will need to replace next year.

Iain

Ran my Evoque all winter last year with Pirelli scorpion summer tyres, no problems. 21MY Defender 90 S 3.0 D200

andycwb wrote:

Looking closely at the new 'un (MY11 SD4 HSE) it seems to be sitting on Pirelli Scorpion Zero tyres.

Anyone got any experience of them in the snow?

Andy

I have a 2011 FL 150 HP 4WD.
A have the Zero on four wheels and I found theme really great, mainly on winter roads with water.
The P ZERO ROSSO SUV ASIMMETRICO are good also, but no so positive off-road (mud; grass)
The ZERO are the best relation between price and performance on the market.
You can try also the HANKOOK DYNAPRO HP2 RA33; very good performance for the price!
And an friendly advice: forget the originals, and terrible, CONTINENTAL
Best regards

Had them on the one day that we had the heavy snowfall in the SE (forget when that was). Skidded to a stop at a roundabout with ABS kicking in, perhaps I had approached too quickly, but certainly wasn't going fast. Back end was slipping away from me at one right hand turn at a T-junction. Total journey is only about 10 miles, so no great experience in snow other than that. I certainly wouldn't want to put you off the vehicle because of the tyres. I did find though that performance degraded with age, and like Iain at 23k I had one tyre at 2mm (rest were 3,4 & 5) so changed them for GG GTs. Now it's 2 years since the Pirellis were new, but my recollection is that the GTs are a better tyre, the car feels very planted and never had any reason to be concerned about grip. I don't throw the car around, but I do like to make progress.

To be fair though the GTs are a summer road tyre, the Zeros claim M&S so perhaps not a like for like comparison. My intention is to get some winter tyres this year.

They were totally useless last winter. To be fair I was towing a trailer with two round bales in a foot of muddy snow.
I repeated the exercise a week later with the wintracs and they were superb. I found the Pirelli ATRs better than the zeros.
I'd get yourself some wintracs (shameless advertising for the wheels I'm selling!)

My SD4 61 plate came with these tyres. 2 yrs and 43k miles later they are due for a change. Great tyres and I went through 2 snowy winters on them.

Never had any problems with mine, although this set are now down at 4mm and noisy, will try them and see what happens.

We run them on the D4's at work and tbh don't like em plus they wear down very quickly 5-6k max, in the snow the other year they were pretty poor,

Wife had some Dynapro's on her FL2 and tbh they were a good tyre, hard wearing and held the road, we still have them as spares but last winter pur some Wintracs on and ran them through the snow etc, wife said they did not feel as good as the Dynapro's, done about 10k on them just normal roads and they are down to 6mm so will be swapping them after winter for some GG AT's. I have run some GG AT's on my D3 for past few months and very happy with them

Had them on my last FL2 (my11 hse) and found there to be excessive tread wear on the outer edge of the tyres. Dealer told me that the pirelli has a soft tyre wall and gives a bit more on cornering.

Glad to be back to goodyears. MY13- TD4 XS Mauritius Blue, Privacy glass, Cold climate pack, Tailgate spoiler, Armrest pack, LED signature, Body side mouldings, Full size spare and finally Mudflaps

GONE - MY11 TD4 HSE LAGO GREY Privacy Glass

GONE- 08 GS Stornoway Grey Privacy Glass
GONE- 07 GS Stornoway Grey Privacy Glass
GONE- 04 Silver

Finally changed my Scorpions after 44k, totally even wear down to the tread indicator and I have replaced them with The Scorpion Verde 107V tyres. 44k was pretty impressive I thought from one set of tyres!!

My Scorpions have done 7k and the wear so far is negligible. Don't know what they are like in the snow, and shan't find out, as I've just swapped them for the Wintracs!
Following which, speaking as someone who has never seen the point of the obsession with wheels that some have on here, I'm amazed how different the car looks going from 18" back to 17". Beginning to see why people change their wheels.

I've got these but the website shows them as being poor for mpg ?

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andycwb wrote:

Looking closely at the new 'un (MY11 SD4 HSE) it seems to be sitting on Pirelli Scorpion Zero tyres.

Anyone got any experience of them in the snow?

Andy