Before you settle on a brand, get a look at the inner edges of the tyres you are replacing. The wear pattern on the outgoing set is better information about how long a new set will last than any review you will read, and almost nobody looks at it. If the inside shoulders are down to nothing while there is still plenty of tread in the middle, the geometry is out, and fitting four new tyres without dealing with it simply buys the same result a year later.
Toe is the mechanism. Each wheel should point very slightly in or out by a specified amount, and when it is wrong, the tyre spends every mile being dragged sideways as well as rolled forward. It is a small angle doing constant work. The tread wears into a saw tooth pattern you can feel with a flat palm swept across it even when you cannot see anything, one shoulder goes down far ahead of the other, and the car often tramlines or sits off centre on the steering. Kerbing a wheel into a tight bay is enough to start it, and so is a hard hit on a worn junction. We fit and balance where the car is parked, but setting geometry needs a machine and a level floor, so that is the one part we will tell you to book elsewhere.
The awkward one is the night before a long drive. You load the car, glance down and see the tread has gone, and every fitter within reach shut at half five. We are the exception: the phone is answered at that hour and a van can be with you on Stockwell Road or on the drive with the right size on board. It is fitted and balanced properly rather than nursed, the valve is checked, and the pressures are set for the load you are actually carrying. Anywhere in Greater London, at any hour.
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The junctions where the Clapham Road meets Stockwell Road and South Lambeth Road are worn hard by traffic that is constantly braking and pulling away, and the estate bays at the other end of most journeys are tight enough that kerbing a wheel is routine rather than careless. Both of those knock a car's geometry about. It is worth reading the old tyres before you spend anything on new ones, because they will tell you whether you are buying tyres or buying tyres twice.
A driver near Larkhall was about to order four tyres and found the inner edges of the front pair worn to almost nothing with good depth still across the centre. The tyres were not the problem and never had been.
One tread looked unremarkable and felt sharp in one direction and smooth in the other when a hand was swept across it. That is toe wear, and it had been building for months without showing itself.
A set fitted in a bay off South Lambeth Road, with the old fronts kept out on the pavement long enough for the owner to see the pattern before it went into our van.
Look at the shoulders of the front tyres and compare inside with outside. Then run a flat hand across the tread in both directions. Even wear that feels smooth either way is a good sign. One edge worn away, or a tread that feels like a row of small steps, is not.
Kerbing a wheel while parking, hitting a pothole or a sunken drain cover hard, and general wear in suspension bushes and joints as a car gets older. In heavy stop start traffic with tight bays at either end of the journey, the first two happen far more than anyone admits.
Faster than the mileage suggests it should. A noticeably wrong setting can take a shoulder off a new tyre inside a year of ordinary local driving, because the scrubbing happens on every mile rather than only under load or in corners.
No, and we would rather say so plainly than pretend. Alignment needs a level floor and measuring equipment. What we will do is tell you what the old tyres are showing, so that you get it corrected before the new set has a chance to go the same way.
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