Important info on your tyres

When you’re driving – whatever the speed or conditions – your only contact with the road are the four postcard size ‘footprints’ of your tyres.
Statistics show that almost half of all car accidents are caused when a car skids – tyres are your vital link with the road and it pays to have the best fitted by professionals here at Cars2 Barnsley.

What is the legal limit in the UK

The law demands that tyres have a tread depth of 1.6mm in a continuous band around the centre three quarters of the tyre.

These levels represent the absolute minimum and tyres as worn as this should be replaced immediately.

To help you judge how much tread you have on your tyres, manufacturers often mould tread bars at roughly 1.6mm. If you can see these bars your tyres are about to become illegal and unsafe.

Recent research conducted by the independent automotive research and testing centre, MIRA, has proved that there is a significant deterioration in wet braking distances when a tyre wears below 3mm.

What causes a tyres to wear prematurely?

Often tyres have to be replaced long before their specified life has been reached principally because of rapid or uneven tread wear.

The most common causes of avoidable tread wear are:

Under Inflating – Causing rapid wear along the edges of the tread.
Over-Inflating – Causing rapid wear along the centre of the tread.
Incorrect wheel balancing – Causing bald spots around the tread of the tyres.
Incorrect wheel alignment or ‘tracking’ – Causing rapid wear along the inside or outside edges of the FRONT or REAR tyres.

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So why not have your check by professional at Cars2 hyundai in barnsley south yorkshire