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All Michelin Tyres Stuff

All Michelin Tyres Stuff

Vehicle tyres, were originally made to provide the vehicle with traction that could go anywhere. They were developed to give the 4X4 driver excellent durability whilst also giving good wear and traction in any weather that the vehicle could come up across, including heavy snow falls.
Most tyres, were technically designed with the help of racing tyres and were derived from a “cut-chip and tear-resistant tread compound”. This would give the tyres tread exceptional grip and wear resistance when driving on roads that would normally tear tyres to shreds, such as gravel roads.

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Tyre Industry Responsible for Poor Tyre Knowledge-Tread Reader on Twitter

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Tyre Industry Responsible

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Michelin survey: 36% of respondents unsure of legal min. tread depth; 62% don’t know the penalty for illegal tyres. pic.twitter.com/FceWAbI36i

This Tyre Industry Responsible survey does not surprise me at all?

Tyre are the last thing on most drivers minds, as drivers are still under financial pressures and the young drivers would rather buy expensive clothes or spend their money on a good night out.

Sometimes I think that we in the tyre industry moan too much about what the customer knows and should know?
I think it is a good idea to carry out tyre research and we all have to thank Michelin in this instance, but are the results really so surprising?
Many of us in the trade (and that includes me).

 Are to blame for this. Over the years,. We have constantly launched tyres at the public. Hence, most motorists today just see tyres as a consumer product that they buy when they are told that they need one.

Many people who read my blogs are in the tyre retail industry and this means that we can all relate to the same or similar problems. For some reason, the tyre industry have failed to educate the public in the safety aspect of their tyre products.


Each manufacturer brings out a new tyre and promotes it the same as skin cream or perfume, but never really explains exactly what a tyre is all about. Take a recent innovation: run-flat tyres. As far as I know, they were just brought out and fitted to cars as original equipment. Nothing was explained what the tyre safety features were?

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I remember the days when “features and benefits” were a buzz word in the tyre industry, but now it is more about market share. Would it have hurt the industry to put out informational facts in the press or on TV,

Even such programmes as “Top Gear”, could have done a piece about run-flat tyres. The majority of tyre manufacturers will be producing new styles of safety tyres, and some new car models will come with them. Things like this would have educated the public as to why these tyres were so expensive.


We, as tyre retailers, have all this to put up with?
To be truthful, we don’t really mind. Consequently, I do think that the tyre industry. Particularly the manufacturers. Hence, it should play a bigger part in helping to educate motorists. what tyres are really about. Therefore, they should be looked after more carefully. I am thinking about tyre pressures and how to check their tread depth.

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Bald tyres like these that were changed on a very nice BMW really make me angry, but are now commonplace

We here at Pellon Tyres experience these problems on a daily occurrence.

Drivers have very busy lives and should be made more aware. Thus the importance of their tyres. Cars are getting bigger?

I am thinking about SUV’s here; more and more young drivers, including many ladies, are now drivers.
Should we be targeting this age group and gender group? Who are the drivers of the future?

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It does concern me about the number of our customers who do not even know their tyre size. But worse of all the large number of tyres that we are removing that are worn down to the steel cords,.


I do appreciate that we have now got Tyresafe working on this problem, but the tyre manufacturers are leaving all the hard work to the tyre retailers, and most of them have staff that are not trained and, in some cases, know practically nothing about tyres except how to fit them?
But that’s another story.
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MICHELINS Experience

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MICHELINS Experience

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MICHELINS Experience

Michelin’s experience: Nothing is as unpredictable as the weather. Now it’s your turn to change the game.Put the new, innovative MICHELIN CrossClimate tyres to the test in the weather..

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Michelin CrossClimate tyres are no doubt one of the tyres to watch out for this coming autumn. Michelin have now released stocks of the CrossClimate and we are now getting our own stocks in here at Pellon Tyres in Halifax, Yorkshire UK.

it would be impossible to keep all the sizes in stock and so we just stick to the top ten sizes.

Other tyre  manufacturers also make similar products, what we call “all-weather tyres”.

Apollo vredestein have just brought out another tyre from the long line of the The new Vredestein Quatrac 5 is characterised by the sleek, asymmetrical design of the tread.

Michelins experience in designing and making tyres

that are suitable for driving in winter conditions. Stems back to the early days of rallying. Michelins experience in rally tyres is second to none>Of course, with Pirelli and Goodyear probably come in close second.

In my opinion, the CrossClimate tyre is the culmination of all this experience. The video shows the extreme conditions and driving that these tyres are put through on testing.

This is something that was only available to the tyre trade at one time. Now though we have advanced visual aids for all to see, thanks to YouTube, these tyre companies can show the public exactly how their tyres can perform.

There are a couple of interesting points

that i think about when looking at the climate. So is the use of a directional tread pattern. The modern trend is for the development of the asymmetric tread pattern design. Which has the “holding the road on all four corners effect”. Another

The point is that Michelin shows the “snow flake emblem” on the Cross-Climates side wall. This is a good point and means that the tyre has been thoroughly tested in snow conditions, as the video shows.