Every new tyre carries a label with three ratings on it, and they are worth understanding for about two minutes before you buy one in a hurry. Fuel efficiency is graded A to E and reflects rolling resistance, which is real money over the life of the tyre but a small effect on any single journey. Wet grip is also graded A to E and is the one that matters most: the gap between the best and worst grades is a substantial difference in wet braking distance from motorway speed. Noise is given in decibels, which sounds precise and is largely about how the car feels rather than how safe it is.
On an emergency job the temptation is to take whatever is quickest. What is worth doing instead is asking about the wet grip grade specifically, because that is the number that changes what the car does in the conditions where the car most needs to do something. We will tell you the grades on what is aboard rather than leaving you to guess from the price.
The gap between "needs replacing" and "needs replacing now" is usually a journey you cannot move. A run on Cambridge Heath Road on a tyre that is already down to the markers is not a risk worth taking. Same tools in Aldgate East as in Stepney, same on every call. Valve in Shadwell, balance in Spitalfields, pressures before we go.
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E1 driving is mostly slow, wet and stop-start, which is exactly the environment where wet grip earns its keep and where rolling resistance barely registers. When a tyre has to go on at short notice, the useful question is not which brand it is but what it grades for wet, and that is a question we are happy to answer at the kerb before anything is fitted.
It happens more than you would think. Same size, similar money, and a real difference in wet braking. Worth asking about, particularly on a car that mostly drives in traffic.
Rolling resistance is genuine but it is a slow, small saving. Trading wet grip for it on a car that lives in stop-start city driving is the wrong way round.
Noise ratings are about comfort rather than safety. Nice to have and not worth a grade of wet performance if you have to choose.
Fuel efficiency and wet grip are each graded A to E, and noise is given in decibels. Wet grip is the one with the largest safety consequence.
Across the full range of grades it is a substantial difference in wet stopping distance from speed. It is the number worth asking about.
Not always, and the grades let you check rather than assume. We will tell you what is on the tyres we carry in your size.
In most cases, from van stock in the common car, SUV and 4x4 sizes. Read us the full sidewall code when you ring so we can confirm.
A parking bay near the hospital, a yard off Commercial Road, a driveway, or the kerb. Nothing needs moving before we arrive.
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