As winter approaches, it might be a good idea to invest in some winter tyres for your car, but is there anything else you should know about them?

Just like the clothes in your wardrobe, tyres for your car are seasonal. Drivers are now offered the choice of summer and winter tyres - or can get their hands on 'all-season' ones that promise to ...

Michelin has made the bold decision to develop a summer tyre that can also work in winter. Called ‘Cross Climate’, the new tyre mixes the best of summer and winter tyre technology. And now, we've had ...

Essentially, socks are textile bags that slip over the tyres on the driven axle, and they proved a match for the winter tyres in our traction tests. Unlike the chains, we had no problems at speed or ...

Chains are our least favourite alternative to winter tyres. They’re trickier to fit and remove than the socks, although the chain is self-tensioning and designed not to damage rims with low-profile ...

Winter tyres are becoming more popular with UK motorists and they not just for when the snow hits. Sure drivers who don’t want to get stuck in the snow will benefit from the specialist rubber as they ...

Sunny skies, dry weather, minus five degrees Celsius on the thermometer—and summer tyres on the road. Starting 1 June next year new legislation will allow drivers of private vehicles to use summer ...

Following two of the worst consecutive winters in living memory BMW has revised its specialist winter tyre programme, designed to help drivers get the best on-road performance from their car ...

Winter tyres are invariably directional so two can only be put on one side and the other two can only be put on the other side so the tyres rotate in the direction of the arrows on their sidewalls. I ...

You write that a FWD car on winter tyres is better than a 4WD car on summer tyres. Clearly you have little experience of driving in the snow and ice and it’s flat where you live. In Devon there are ...

A popular method for checking this without purchasing specialist equipment is to use a 20p coin. For this reason, keeping a ...