Every tyre sold comes with a label, and the letter in the middle of it is the wet grip grade. It is the only figure on there that describes how quickly the tyre will stop you. The grades run from A downwards, and the gap between them is not decorative. Each step represents a real difference in wet braking distance measured against a fixed test. Stack up two or three steps and you are talking about a car's length or more at the sort of speed the A13 runs at.
Most people never see the label, because it comes off the tyre before it goes on the car. It is worth asking for. The label also carries a rolling resistance grade and a noise figure, but those are running cost and comfort. Wet grip is the one that matters on a wet evening on the Heathway when somebody stops in front of you. When we price a set we will tell you which grade each option carries in your size, and where a mid range tyre with a good wet grade beats a big name with a mediocre one. Fitting happens at the house, on the estate, or wherever you work.
One tyre or four changes the price and nothing else about how it works. The van brings what you have agreed to and fits it where the car sits, on Wood Lane or on a driveway, balances each wheel as it goes on, and sets the pressures to the plate figure rather than to whatever was in there before. The wheel comes off in Chadwell Heath, not on a ramp in Romford. Nothing is towed out of the Marsh Green area or Rush Green; the work finishes there.
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The A13 is fast and the Heathway is stop and start, and both are worse in the wet than they look. That combination is where a wet grip grade earns its keep, because the fast road decides how much speed you carry into a problem and the busy one decides how often you meet one. Choosing a set on the label rather than the badge costs nothing at all. We fit at the door across RM10 and out through Becontree.
A driver in Becontree was choosing between two tyres at a similar price. One was two wet grip grades better than the other, which turned out to be the whole decision, made in about a minute.
A familiar brand on the shortlist for a car near Chadwell Heath carried only a middling wet grade in that particular size. Grades vary size by size within a range, which is why the label beats the badge.
A set fitted outside a house near the Heathway while the owner was at work. Balanced, torqued, old tyres away, keys back through the door.
Wet braking, against a standard test on a wet surface. The grade is a band rather than a single number, and each step down represents a longer stopping distance. It is the most useful single figure printed on the label.
On a car used all year round in this country, it is the one we would protect first. Rolling resistance saves a little fuel over a long period. Wet grip pays for itself the first time somebody brakes hard in front of you.
No, and that surprises people. A model can score differently in different sizes, because each size is tested separately. Ask for the grade in your size rather than for the range as a whole.
Yes. You get the wet grip grade for each option we are offering in your size at the point we quote, so the choice is made on the numbers rather than on the name moulded into the sidewall.
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