Contents: Tires for winter 🠛 Retreaded tires 🠛
- Anyone who wants to put a car on a wider base and is ready to spend the corresponding amount of money should select the "next" tire size with the corresponding disk in the technical documentation for the car. The old set of narrower disks can be used for winter tires.
- When installing new tubeless tires, be sure to use new valve cores. This prevents air leakage as valve cores age over time and the rubber becomes cracked.
Tires for winter
Wide summer tires for high-speed driving are prone to slippage on snow and ice. Depending on the climate of a particular area and the properties of the summer tire set, you cannot ignore the purchase of special winter tires.
- Regardless of what tires you drive on, always remember: at temperatures around 0°C (freezing point) on slippery ice, when skidding, a film of water forms, which reduces the grip efficiency of even the best winter tires.
- As for the size of winter tires, we recommend buying the thinnest tires possible. First of all, this will reduce your costs: thin tires are always cheaper than wide ones. The money saved can be used to buy suitable rims, since regularly changing summer and winter tires is very expensive and time-consuming. In addition, thin tires require a 13-inch rim, while the 16-valve Renault 19 requires 5J x 14 rims.
- M+S tyres with a tread depth of less than 4 mm are not suitable for winter. If, for example, somewhere in the mountains it is prescribed to use only winter tyres with a winter tread pattern, then M+S tyres are recognized as such only if the tread depth on them is at least 4 mm.
Retreaded tires
Car enthusiasts do not trust retreaded tires, although various tests prove their suitability for use. Tires with the "RAL" mark have a quality stamp and meet all quality criteria, in addition, they have passed tests when working at high speeds.
However, according to our tests, they are only suitable for quiet driving. Defects in the retreaded tire appear in most cases at high speed or when fully loaded - above all, if the pressure is not correct.
The contrast to the low price is: short service life, increased imbalance, rotation with radial runout especially with high mileage of the car, as well as different driving characteristics of the wheels, compared to new tires that have the same tread.