My car has TPMS. What is a Tyre Pressure Monitoring System?
Every car on the road that’s 64-reg (2014) or younger will have TPMS or a Tyre Pressure Monitoring System. Although this is intelligent technology, it might not be as intelligent…
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Every car on the road that’s 64-reg (2014) or younger will have TPMS or a Tyre Pressure Monitoring System. Although this is intelligent technology, it might not be as intelligent…
You might have seen the letters XL on the side of your car’s tyres. These are special tyres that are designed for heavy cars or in the case of vans,…
Tyres are a great deal more than the black round things most of us consider them to be. They are rated according to the load they can carry and they…
Every tyre has what’s known as a load rating or load index. It’s vital to fit tyres with the correct load index for your vehicle to guarantee maximum tyre life…
Our reader was washing their car and noticed what looked like cracks in the sidewall of their tyre. They want to know whether cracked tyres is something they should worry…
Our reader was inspecting their tyres and they noticed a strange bulge in the tyre sidewall. They described it as looking like the bump that appears when someone is hit…
We always recommend that you check tyres on your car at least once a month. Tyres are the only contact your car has with the road so ensuring they’re in…
How long car tyres last depends on a cocktail of factors. These include the make and model of tyres, how you drive on them, the kind of driving, and the…
Our reader wants to know if they can have different tyre tread patterns on the same axle, meaning one kind of tyre on one side, a different one on the…
We’re all looking for ways to save money and what are known as string repairs to tyres may be advertised by some as a simple way of cutting the cost…