One tyre with a different speed rating

force_ten

bod1467 wrote: »

But the OP's tyres are higher rated than specified (except for 1 which is at the specified rating). You're right if people fit lower rated tyres, but higher rated tyres are NOT a get-out for insurance companies.

How many cars have a minimum rating of W? Even V rating is a step up in rating for most cars.

did you know that to be the case before the post at 3.56pm today stating

Thanks for the info.
I have checked the door plate and it states 215/55 R16 93 V
So all the tyres on the car are above that.

we did not know the oem spec of tyres for the ops car and this is why i suggested

if your door plate says 215/55 R16 97V then you are good to go if the door plate 215/55 R16 97W then you should not have the lower V rated tyre fitted to the car

Ectophile

Joe_Horner wrote: »

You'll be very hard pressed to find any road legal tyre on sale rated at lower than "S" (118mph) and an attempted insurance refusal for an accident at, say, 70mph on a tyre rated for 118mph would be laughed right out of the Ombudsman because the fitting is both (a) perfectly legal and (b) well within the capabilities of the tyre.

I've had Q rated tyres (99 MPH) on a Land Rover before. But since that particular Land Rover wasn't capable of doing 99 MPH, that wasn't a problem.

Joe_Horner

Ectophile wrote: »

I've had Q rated tyres (99 MPH) on a Land Rover before. But since that particular Land Rover wasn't capable of doing 99 MPH, that wasn't a problem.

Yeah, in the long distant past I've had L rated remoulds (75mph) which were legal on the basis you're breaking the speed limit if you exceed it anyway. But even remoulds tend to be S rated (or higher) if you can find them now.

Iceweasel

We had an interesting thread on speed ratings a few years back:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3337142

Also if one were to think of this from an international point of view perhaps there would likely be other implications.

There are several countries in Europe where to have tyres speed rated at less than the maximum speed or the car would be illegal.

In the UK with our laughably low national speed limit almost any tyre would have a high enough rating if we were to look only at the speed.

But it's to do with heat dissipation -so fast accelerating cars that never exceed 70mph could well need higher rated tyres.

The best solution is to stick with at least the cars recommended tyre ratings for both load and speed.

The OP in this thread has nothing to worry about, but I do know people who have replaced tyres on high performance cars as they didn't see any need for tyres that were capable of speeds well over 100mph when the speed limit in the UK is 70mph.

Ebe_Scrooge

jessmist wrote: »

I have never really bothered checking the tyres only the tyre pressures.

Oh dear