“Next one is R. R for rubber. So R for rubber is tyres. Three things to check with your tyres is ACT. A for air. Check the pressure. C is for condition. Check there are no bulges, scratch or other damage, scratches, cuts, damage that sort of thing. And T is for tread. Tread minimum legal is 1.6 across 3/4 of the width across the circumference of every tyre.
In the real world, that’s really not good enough. You need to have 2.5 to 3 mm, which is when the advanced driving organisations, the police and your driving instructor, will be changing their tyres. After about 2.5 to 3, the performance significantly drops. Anybody leaving it to 1.6 mm may well be legal, but they. may well be in a ditch or under a truck. So, it’s important to get the tyres sorted out. The other one, the extra letter to you, I would suggest is that you look at the type of the tyre.
In the winter, you should really have winter tyres. In the summer, you should have summer tyres. You might get all weather or all season tyres, which means you don’t have to do the change, but whatever you do, you must always have a full set of the same. You must never have, for example, two winter tyres and summer tyres, or any sort of odd combination like that. Always the same type.
So, it doesn’t mean the same manufacturer. It doesn’t mean that. But always the size corresponding to the manufacturer’s recommendations in the handbook and the same type whether it’s winter, summer, or all weather. And you really ought to have a spare wheel as well. A spare wheel will enable you to continue a journey even if you have a puncture that can or can’t be repaired. And this is where the breakdown service comes in, coming on later. So, that’s R for Rubber.
