Tyre Law - BE TYRE SMART

Whether you drive a limousine, a family saloon, a flash sports car or something more humble. Your cars have one thing in common. The safe performance of your vehicle is highly dependent on the quality of those four tyres, each with a road contact patch not much bigger than the average persons hand whether you are travelling at 20mph or 70 mph!

Your tyres are your contact with the road and are responsible for:

Acceleration
Steering
Safe stopping of your vehicle.

Tyres are not just black and round; they are highly complex engineered products resulting from years of investment in research and development. Tyre performance characteristics can vary markedly and so it is important to ensure that they are the correct specification for your car.

Every new car-type tyre, other than retreads, must meet European standards for load/speed performance and be marked on the sidewall with

On passenger cars, trailers and light vans up to 3500kg in weight there must be a minimum of 1.6mm tread depth in continuous bands around the tyre across the central ¾ width of the tyre. But don’t wait until you get to the legal minimum, Tanvic would recommend tyres are changed at a minimum of 2mm and preferably closer to 3mm.

When you consider that new tyres have approximately 7mm of tread depth the water shifting capability of your tyres on wet road conditions is steadily compromised as tread depth diminishes.

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