Tire maintenance is extremely important for the safety of your vehicle, and it can also ensure that you save a lot of money. So these are two important incentives to make sure you perform proper maintenance. Visual inspection The easiest thing to do is to check the tires by visual Read more…
From the day you have new tires on your vehicles, it is important to track the tread depth and how it decreases over time. It is advisable to measure the tire’s tread depth on a regular basis. Initially, you will not check it as often, maybe every six months, but Read more…
When driving during summers, you are spared from most of the challenges you have when driving during the winter season. You are spared from snow, ice, and slush, which are very slippery conditions that can be very difficult to drive in. During the warm seasons, you mainly have rain can Read more…
Rotation of tires is done to ensure that the same wear on every tire. If you use the same set during the whole year, then you need to make sure that you rotate them to even out differences in wear. Since you are not alternating with winter tires, there is Read more…
Winter can cause a lot of havoc in the traffic, with a lot of traffic accidents. When people decide to drive their vehicles regardless of what tires they have on them, there can easily be problems if there is snow and ice. When you drive in winter conditions all vehicles Read more…
When you are planning to purchase a new set of tires you should learn a bit about tires and why some tires are better than others and what tire options that you have. Tire selection will depend on what type of vehicle you have, what weather conditions you will experience Read more…
The advantage of premium tires is that they constantly improve and develop their tire technology to help deal with dangerous situations like slushplaning. Most premium tires will incorporate some technology to prevent or reduce the risk of it, but no tires can completely eliminate the risk. This is why it’s Read more…
One of the trickiest weather situations as the spring approaches is the slush that is created when the snow is melting and you get a mixture of snow and water. Slush is difficult as you will still need to have the properties of snow tires or winter tires, which they Read more…
When it comes to winter tires, they have actually passed stringent tests to achieve approval so that they can be used during winter conditions. This is symbolized by the severe service emblem aka snowflake (3PMSF) symbol. This is different than the M+S marking that you sometimes can see on tires Read more…
By default, winter tires should be approved for winter use, but it is always safer to check it is really the case. Winter approved tires should have a severe service emblem that shows a mountaintop with 3 peaks with a snowflake inside it. This is also commonly referred as Alpine-symbol Read more…