Hello, we bought a new car (a Renault Megane 1.6). The car is 14 months old and comes with a set of winter and a set of summer tires. We have always used only universal tires, so the theme is new for us. We live in Bremen, there you get quite well without. The car has driven 22,000 km, so I assume that the tires each have about 10,000 km down (brand summer is goodyear; winter I get to know only on the pick-up day). The questions: 1. Is it realistic to sell the 8 existing tires used, and to buy one set of universal tires from the proceeds? 2. If you expect to need new universal tires every 4 years (we drive about 15,000 km a year), would you be able to exchange the seasonal tires every 8 years, so keep seasonal tires twice as long as full-year tires? Have you read that winter tires should be exchanged every 6 years at the latest. 3. What if I then n can’t I do it myself, i.e. about 80,- / year) ? In the bottom line, is it worth to switch directly to universal tyres?