Overland to Turkey in March/April

[Jack TGA]

In March/April, rather than take the Venice-Greece ferry and drive across Greece to Turkey, I'm considering driving through Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey.
Someone mentioned winter tyres. I don't have winter tyres but I have snow chains.
Does anyone have any experience of driving this route March/April time?
(I've checked the Covid and visa requirements)

 

[Blue Knight]

If I was venturing into those places again then I would swap my tyres for all terrain/winter versions.

Snow chains are great for proper expeditionary travelling but, as I see it, your rig doesn't currently have an 'inbetween capability' for when the roads are too poor for normal tyres but are not sufficiently bad enough for snow chains.

I once had a terrible crash in Croatia a few years back where more grip would have saved the day (and that was just on a wet and slippy road).

All the best,

Andrew

 

[MarionK]

Dang I forgot about the likelihood of snow on the roads at that time of year.
I've been vaguely planning a similar route, at that time, to avoid summer heat, and have the best of the spring weather at destination.

eta: How consistent is snow cover on the roads at that time? IMVLE the nubs on snow tires wear down pretty fast on dry roads.

 

[The Wino]

Dang I forgot about the likelihood of snow on the roads at that time of year.
I've been vaguely planning a similar route, at that time, to avoid summer heat, and have the best of the spring weather at destination.

eta: How consistent is snow cover on the roads at that time? IMVLE the nubs on snow tires wear down pretty fast on dry roads.

Do you mean studded tyres for ice I don't think snow tyres have " nubs" on them. We have all seasons on both our cars they're almost as good as snow tyres in the winter but drive similar to ordinary tyres in the summer.

 

[tacr2man]

Overlanding Sophia , and Tread the globe on YT should give you some recent road condition insights . An AT type tyre with chains as a failsafe should suffice in most places If its worse than that, then with 2wd you shouldn't be there HTSH

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[Jays2]

Not sure about Serbia, looking on the map it’s the obvious route.
I know a guy who does have a home in Bulgaria, he tells stories of police in Serbia, taking thing from people travelling through.
Will ask him the next time I see him the route he takes.
Could be a couple of weeks until I see him.