Tyres are your only point of contact with the road surface. You cannot neglect the condition of your Tyres, if you do you could endanger not only yourself and your passengers, but also other road users. Barrys Tyre & Exhaust Centre recommend that you should check the condition of your Tyres regularly, in fact we recommend you check your tyres at least once a month.

Did you know that you are most probably not insured when driving on illegal tyres? Worn tyres significantly impede the performance of your car, you should be aware that a worn tyre reduces the effectiveness of braking, steering, and acceleration, all of which are vital in staying safe.

How important are a few minutes put aside now to check your tyres, when you compare it to your own safety and that of your family?

The Tyre Industry Council have devised a five point tyre check:

Check overall condition of tyres, including inner and outer sidewalls.

Check tyre tread depth.

Check all tyre pressures.

Check signs of irregular wear, i.e. alignment.

Check and examine the spare tyre.

Were you aware that a tyre can be under inflated without looking flat? To be safe you should check tyre pressures once a fortnight. To find out what pressure your tyres should be set at please refer to your Vehicle Handbook. Remember that tyre pressures should only be checked when your tyres are cold,  a good guide is to leave them for an hour to cool down before checking. You must not drive on under or over inflated tyre’s, this will impede your vehicles handling, in cases making the vehicle unstable. The wrong tyre pressure will increase tyre wear and is likely to cause irregular wear patterns.

The minimum legal tread depth required on a tyre is 1.6 millimetres, there are little raised humps in several places around the base of the tread pattern of your tyre that indicate this minimum wear level.

It is reccommended by research that you should consider changing your tyres when the tread depth becomes less than 3 millimetres as the braking and road holding performance of the tyre becomes seriously reduced below this level, infact, at a tread depth of 2 millimetres it has been proven that your braking distance is more than doubled.

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