October is tyre safety month

panesar007

October is tyre safety month. Do you know how to check your tyres? Are you aware their is a 1.6mm tread, anything less than this makes your tyres illegal.

Here is more advice http://www.uccc.co.uk/how-to-check-tyre-tread

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Rolandtheroadie

panesar007 wrote: »

October is tyre safety month. Do you know how to check your tyres? Are you aware their is a 1.6mm tread, anything less than this makes your tyres illegal.

Here is more advice http://www.uccc.co.uk/how-to-check-tyre-tread

Thanks Unipart

Depends what you're driving/riding tho

MX5huggy

Who has decided its Tyre Safety Month?

societys_child

This is great news. Does it mean I only have to check my tyres once a year?
:huh:

panesar007

Tyre Safe have decided

daveyjp

Now is the best time to change. If you have 2.5mm or less on the driven wheel tyres (4x4 included) you may not get very far if the snow comes down. 8mm will give you much better traction.

OddballJamie

daveyjp wrote: »

Now is the best time to change. If you have 2.5mm or less on the driven wheel tyres (4x4 included) you may not get very far if the snow comes down. 8mm will give you much better traction.

Last year in the snow I had couple of month old Bridgestones on and couldn't even get off the drive. Embarrassingly I left mine at home and took my partners KA which only had a few mm of tread and was brilliant in the snow. Got winter tyres this year, so bring it on!


Btw I'm not suggesting that lower tread is better in the snow, just mine were shocking. More to do with the width than anything in my case.

Yolina

Whoo-hoo Tyre Safety Month :j :dance: :j so we can just ignore our tyres totally for the other 11 months of the year then.

So what's next - screen wash week?

A._Badger

panesar007 wrote: »

Tyre Safe have decided

Let me guess. It's funded by the tyre industry?

Joe_Horner

MX5huggy wrote: »

Who has decided its Tyre Safety Month?

At a guess, whoever seems to have employed the OP to start lots of threads promoting Unipart?

Joe_Horner

societys_child wrote: »

This is great news. Does it mean I only have to check my tyres once a year?
:huh:

No, you should be checking them on average every couple of weeks. Luckily, that comes to 26 times a year, which can all be fitted in between the 1st and 31st Oct to maintain the yearly average