When should you change your tyres? It’s an important question to know the answer to. If your car doesn’t grip the road as well as normal in wet weather, or if it’s not handling as well, or takes a little longer to stop when you apply the brakes, this could be an indication that your [...]
All the major car manufacturers recommend that you check your tyre pressures at least once a month, or every 3000 miles whichever comes first, however very few of us actually do this simple task even though it could make a huge difference to the way our car handles and also to the cost of running [...]
Wheel balancing might sound like something out of a circus act rather than something important for you to know about your car, but actually wheel balancing is very important if you want to maintain your car so that you get a good comfortable drive and a safe one. Each wheel has to be balanced so [...]
There are laws across the UK and European community relating to the minimum tyre tread that it’s legal to have on any tyre on any car. Every tyre must have a minimum tread depth of 1.6mm. You must have this minimum tread depth of 1.6mm in a continuous band around the central part of the [...]