Mixing tyre types on the same axle is a mistake that looks harmless. Two tyres of the same size but different tread patterns, or a summer tyre paired with an all-season one, behave differently in the wet at the exact moment you most need them to behave the same. The car ends up braking unevenly, and on a fast dual carriageway that is a real handling issue rather than a theoretical one.
It happens innocently. A tyre gets replaced somewhere in a hurry, the closest match goes on, and nobody mentions it. When we come out to look at a damaged tyre around Bedford we look at what else is fitted, and if the axle is mismatched you will hear about it. That is information rather than a sales pitch, and plenty of the time the answer is that it is not ideal but it is not urgent. The one thing we will not do is add another mismatch without saying anything.
Big alloys and low-profile tyres look good and break easily. We check both when we come out to Kempston or wherever the car is standing: the tyre for cuts, splits and bulges, and the alloy for damage, before anything goes back on. Every street in Elstow, every close in Putnoe, every junction on the A6. Tight in Kempston, easy in Brickhill: neither stops the job. Level in Goldington, sloping in Queens Park: we set the car straight first.
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Bedford spreads along the Great Ouse with the A6 through the middle and the A421 and A428 carrying fast traffic around the edges, and those are roads where uneven braking across an axle shows up rather than staying theoretical. Mismatched tyres are extremely common and almost always accidental. Pointing it out while we are already at your driveway in Putnoe costs nothing and occasionally saves rather more.
A car in Goldington had two different tread patterns on the front. The damaged one was replaced with a match for its partner.
A car in Putnoe had an all-season tyre fitted opposite a summer one. It was explained clearly and the driver chose to match them up.
An owner in Kempston expected bad news about mismatched tyres. Both were the same specification and nothing needed doing.
Mixing different construction types is not permitted, and mixing patterns is legal but not advisable. Braking and wet grip become uneven across the axle.
In the dry, less so. In heavy rain the two tyres shift water differently and the car brakes unevenly, which on the A421 is exactly when it matters.
Yes, whether or not it changes what we are there to do. It is your car and you are entitled to know what is on it.
Not always. If the surviving tyre has plenty of life and the mismatch is mild, we will say so rather than push you into two.
Typically 30 to 60 minutes across the town, from Kempston through to Brickhill, with common car, SUV and 4x4 sizes on the van.
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