Choosing tyres
Summer, winter, all-season and part-worn tyres: what matters and what the sellers made up. Width, profile, tread, studs, tests.
Serhii Maslov
30 articles
Subsections
- Summer tyres6 articles
- Winter tyres10 articles
- Winter tyre tread5 articles
- Part-worn tyres4 articles
Articles in this sectionIn reading order.
- 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?982 words
- Tyre testsOften the main argument for choosing a particular tyre becomes the place it won in some “independent” test - how justified is that?1,471 words
- Does an electric car need “special” tyres?A new label has appeared in tyre shops, “for electric cars” or simply “EV”, and, as usual, a new price to go with it. EV owners argue about whether ordinary tyres will do, on a Tesla and a modest…1,283 words · new article
- Cheap tyres: what to expect of them todaySome motorists are convinced that a cheap tyre is always a lottery, others that only the naive pay extra for a big name on the sidewall.1,305 words · new article
- Tesla Model 3 and Model Y tyres: sizes, pressure, T0Tesla owners hunt for the “right” tyres as keenly as for a vacant charging point, and sales assistants are happy to hint that “ordinary” tyres will not do for an EV.1,564 words · new article