Does it depend on whether your car is front, rear or all wheel drive? Does it matter what sort of tyre you have? What about the rim size? The answer is none of these things. The tyre that will wear the quickest (in the UK) is your passenger, near side rear tyre. Not everyone knows […]
GEM Motoring Assist Offers Care Tyre Advice
Road safety and breakdown organisation GEM Motoring Assist is urging motorists to make regular checks on tyres, to ensure tread depths are sufficient and pressures are correct. GEM chief executive David Williams MBE comments: “We rely on our tyres to keep us safe on journeys. After all, they provide the only contact between the car […]
Even If You’re Not Buying Winter Tyres…
It’s essential that you check your tyre pressures regularly and this especially applies to winter. If you’re getting near to the tread wear markers and you see cracking on a tyre, this is not a good sign. You might well notice some deformation too if the tyre is old. All this means you could well […]
Cracks Showing In Tyres
As there have recently been some comments on a previous tyre article, I thought I’d cover in brief something that could happen to an older tyre – cracking. It is self explanatory but it is simply the rubber of the tyre perishing, and cracks appearing therein. Unfortunately, there’s no substitute or solution when you have […]