Choosing tyres

Summer, winter, all-season and part-worn tyres: what matters and what the sellers made up. Width, profile, tread, studs, tests.

Subsections

Articles in this sectionIn reading order.

  1. How do you choose tyre width for the season?In reality, all else being equal, tyre width only affects one parameter: the size of the tyre’s contact patch with the road surface. What does that mean?980 words
  2. Tyre testsOften the main argument for choosing a particular tyre becomes the place it won in some “independent” test - how justified is that?1,344 words