Tyres
Tyres are the only part of your vehicle that is continuously in contact with the road, and their condition greatly affects your safety.
Bad tyres can decrease your car’s performance, reducing the efficiency of braking, steering, speeding and driving comfort. Therefore, it is necessary to take care of your tyres and check them occasionally.
The number of traffic accidents is 6 times larger in winter than in summer. In order to protect yourself and your family, you must have winter tyres.
Find out what are the advantages of winter tyres and you won’t be driving with summer tyres this winter.
Keep this in mind: whether it’s snow, melted snow, ice, or just water on the road, tyres have much less traction in winter and therefore lower overall performance.
Keep in mind that the tyre's contact area with the ground is the size of a palm. This makes choosing a good winter tyre paramount.
To be safe while driving in snow you should follow these few simple rules:
- Avoid aggressive cornering
- Avoid sudden acceleration —acceleration should be gradual
- Avoid sudden braking
- Keep a safe distance to the car in front
- If you have manual transmission, when driving uphill, use a higher gear than you would in dry weather.
While googling for websites of some tyre brands, we found out that it's quite hard to find websites of some lesser known brands. That is largely because its quite simple to create a brand - you can order a quantity of tyres to be created to your specification from tyre manufacturers. Thus, we've compiled a comprehensive list of websites of tyre brands, even of those lesser known.
- Air Pressure
- The measure of force by which the air inside a tire is pressing outward, which is expressed in pounds per square inch (PSI), or kilopascals (kPa), the metric designation for air pressure.
- Alignment
- When all wheels on the vehicle are adjusted so that they are pointed in the optimum direction relative to the road and each other.
- All-season tires
- Tires that provide a good balance of traction in rain or snow with good tread life and a comfortable, quiet ride. Check the other types of tires.
- Aspect Ratio
- The relationship of a tire’s sidewall height to its section width. In a tire size designation, it is 65 in "195/65R15". It is also referred to as the tire’s profile or the series. Read more on the tire designation and the tire aspect ratio.
- Aquaplaning
- An extremely dangerous situation where water builds up in front of the tires resulting in the tires losing contact with the road surface. At this point, the vehicle is skimming on the water surface and is completely out of control. Also called hydroplaning.