As the only thing connecting your vehicle to the road, there’s no questioning how important tyres are. Frankly, we wouldn’t get far without them! That’s why regularly inspecting and maintaining them is so crucial to ensure your safety on the road.

So here are some tyre care tips to follow

Checking you tyre air pressure

Tyres need to be strong enough to hold the weight of your vehicle. To understand the importance of having the right tyre pressure, let’s put it this way: your vehicle is carried by the air pressure in the tyres, and not the tyres themselves. Correct tyre pressure helps to distribute the weight of your vehicle evenly across the tyre’s tread pattern, so that your vehicle is most stable. If your tyres are over or under-inflated, then your vehicle loses stability, and you won’t have enough control of your wheels. This can be extremely dangerous and put you at risk of getting into a car accident.

To top up your tyre pressure, visit your local service station where they should have an air pressure gauge. The process is very easy and should not take long at all – just make you inspect your tyre placard before doing so, which is usually located inside the driver’s door, glove box or fuel filler cap.

Rotating your tyres

Tyre rotation involves changing the position of each of the tyres on your vehicle. If you want to keep your tyres in optimum condition, then rotation is necessary every 5000kms, or as recommended on your owner’s manual. By doing so, you will help to even out the wear on all four of them, and keep them for longer.

Inspecting your tread depth

Tyre tread is designed to evenly disperse water between the tyre and the road surface so that it’s safer to drive when it’s wet. The minimum legal tread depth in Australia is 1.5mm, so you should inspect your tyres every so often to make sure it does fall below that measurement. If your tyres have significant tread wear, then this will increase the distance that your car takes to stop and will reduce your grip levels on the road. This can cause serious risk, especially when driving in wet conditions.

Regularly cleaning them

Regularly cleaning your tyres may seem like an ordinary task, but it’s actually a key preventative maintenance step that you shouldn’t forget. Firstly, by cleaning your tyres properly, you are forcing yourself to inspect them regularly. It can be easy to forget all about tyres, so giving them a quick wash will enable you to notice any potential signs of damage. Secondly, you will also slow down the wear and tear of your tyres, which is always a plus!

If you’re unsure whether your tyres are in good condition or not even after reading these tyre care tips, let our expert team inspect them by booking an inspection today!