The label that comes with every new tyre exists so that tyres can be compared by people who cannot see them, which is exactly the position you are in at four in the morning. It carries three graded figures: rolling resistance, which shows up in fuel, wet grip on a scale of letters, and exterior noise in decibels. None of them is a marketing claim. They come from standardised tests, and they are the only numbers on a tyre that mean the same thing from one brand to the next.
At night the one to ask about is wet grip, because it is measured as braking distance on a wet surface and that is the thing you will notice on the first roundabout. So when you ring and read us the size off your sidewall, we can tell you what grade the tyres we carry in that size hold, and how that sits against whatever has just failed, before we set off. What the label will not tell you is how a tyre behaves once it is half worn, how it rides, how it steers or how long it lasts, because every figure on it is measured on a new tyre under controlled conditions. Treat it as a floor to work up from rather than the whole description.
Cold nights take pressure out of every tyre on the car, and one of them is usually already leaking. That is why the calls cluster on the first properly cold mornings of the year: a tyre that had been coping suddenly is not. We are out on those mornings from before it is light, across E3, checking whether it is a genuine puncture, a perished valve or simply four tyres that have all lost a few psi. Whichever it is, it is sorted where the car is parked: a repair to British Standard, a valve, or a replacement from the van. No journey is needed to get an answer.
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The A11 through Bow does not go quiet at night the way most roads do, and the run up to the flyover carries traffic at a genuine speed at three in the morning, with nowhere sensible to be standing about. That is the argument for settling what is going on the car before anybody sets off rather than after we arrive. Read us the size and the ratings off the sidewall while you are still sitting in the car with the hazards on, and the choice, the grades and the price are all agreed before our van reaches you.
A late call from a driver stopped off Bow Road. We gave the wet grip grades of the two tyres we had on board in that size before leaving the yard, so the decision got made in the warm rather than at the roadside.
A tyre replaced near Bromley-by-Bow edge at half past three went on carrying a higher wet grip grade than the one it replaced. That is not always possible at that hour, but it is always worth asking the question.
A driver on Fairfield Road asked which of two options was the quieter. The decibel figures were the starting point. The more useful answer was which of them we had fitted most often and what people said about them afterwards.
Three standardised measurements: rolling resistance graded by letter, wet grip graded by letter, and exterior noise in decibels. They are produced by the same test on every tyre sold, which makes them the one part of a tyre's description that compares straight across brands.
Yes, provided you read us the size and the ratings off the sidewall when you call. We will tell you what we hold in that size and what it is graded, so nothing has to be decided by torchlight at the roadside. That conversation takes a minute and it happens before the van moves.
It is the grade that comes closest to something you can feel. It is measured as wet braking, and the gap between the top letters and the bottom ones is a real distance rather than a rounding error. On a wet night that is the figure worth spending on.
How the tyre behaves at half tread, how it rides, how it steers, or how long it will last. All of it is measured on a brand new tyre in controlled conditions. It is a reliable floor and a poor complete picture, which is why we will also tell you what we know from actually fitting the thing.
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