If the tyre being replaced has a mountain and snowflake symbol on it, or the letters M and S, that is worth mentioning on the phone. Those markings mean the tyre is rated for cold and winter conditions, and the rubber compound stays soft at low temperatures where an ordinary summer tyre goes hard and loses grip. All season tyres carry them too. Replacing one of a set with a standard summer tyre gives you a car with mismatched behaviour in the cold, which shows up exactly when it is least welcome.
So the replacement gets matched to what is actually on the car rather than to the size alone. Budget, mid-range and premium all travel on the van in the common car, SUV and 4x4 fitments, and if the exact type is not aboard you are told plainly and given a realistic timescale rather than sold the nearest thing. Once the right tyre is there it goes on the rim beside the car, is balanced on site, torqued to the manufacturer's figure and set to the plate pressure, and the failed casing is taken away.
6mm across the central three-quarters and the tyre is illegal, not merely tired, and no amount of careful driving changes that. When there is no time to wait for a garage slot, we bring the right size out to you in Shepherd's Bush and fit it where the car is parked. A 4am Brackenbury call and a noon Goldhawk Road call reach the same fitter. Whether it is Goldhawk Road in rush hour or Westway at midnight, we answer.
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An urgent replacement is still a tyre you will be driving on next winter, so matching the type rather than just the size is worth the thirty seconds it takes to ask. The right tyre goes on where the car has stopped, whether that is a bay off Askew Road or the verge of the A40, balanced and torqued before you drive, with the wrecked one taken away.
A car near Wood Lane had all season tyres and had been about to be given a summer tyre on one corner. Matching the set was the point of the conversation.
A tyre wrecked with the car pulled off the A40. Correct size and matching type fitted at the roadside, balanced and torqued before it moved.
A tyre ruined against a kerb while parking. The car stayed exactly where it was and the replacement went on beside it.
Mud and snow, which along with the mountain and snowflake symbol indicates a tyre rated for cold conditions. All season tyres carry them as well as winter ones.
In the cold and wet, yes. A summer tyre alongside three all season ones behaves differently at low temperature, which is when you would rather everything behaved the same.
It is moulded on the sidewall. Read out what is written there when you ring and the right type comes out with the fitter.
You are told straight away, with a real timescale for getting it. Nothing goes on just because it is the right size.
Typically 30 to 60 minutes. Give the street and the nearest junction and the fitter will find the car.
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