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Are you unsure what tyres you have on your car? Are you looking for improved grip, traction and safety in the colder months? Are you worried your tyres are approaching the legal limit?
Pop into Tyre2you in Radstock and we can have a look at your tyres and offer you a free safety check or book online at www.tyre2you.co.uk We can also check your wheel alignment to make sure your tyres are not wearing unevenly.
Winter tyres are specifically designed to remain supple in colder temperatures and maximise traction when driving on snow and ice. The key differences between winter tyres and summer tyres are:
To more effectively displace water, winter tyres generally have deeper-tread grooves than conventional summer tyres.
Winter tyres use a softer rubber compound (usually by including more natural rubber in the mix), which stays softer in low temperatures. The surface of the tread blocks is covered with small, jagged slits – called sipes. These increase the tyre's surface area against the road and improve traction. The sipes help not only because of their edges, but also because they enable localised movement of the rubber as the soft compound clings to the road. A larger single solid-tread block, like the ones you see on summer tyres, would stay rigid in such conditions and be unable to maintain grip as effectively. Winter tyres are also designed to gather a snowy 'in-fill' in the tread grooves and in the sipes to help with grip on packed snow. Nothing grips snow better than snow itself, and winter tyres exploit this by gathering and holding as much of it as possible.
Most UK cars are fitted with summer tyres and in the UK, there is no legal requirement to fit winter tyres but for improved grip, traction and safety in the winter months more and more people are buying winter tyres.
So, if you are interested in getting winter tyres in time for the cold weather, we can offer a free tyre safety check, call us on 01761568118 or book online at www.tyre2you.co.uk