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Is your insurance company being winter tire friendly?

Thanks to the coldest winter in 30 years, insurance companies paid out over £395 million across 268,400 motor insurance claims during the worst of the ...

Video: Do you need winter tires if you drive a 4x4?

Why yes, yes you do! Click to watch the video

Summer VS Winter tires - Warm weather performance

There's no arguing that winter tires offer more grip than summer in temperatures below 5-7c, and that below 0c that performance gap is even wider, but how do...

Part Worn Tires

Part worn tires create a lot of debate around the internet, and any thread started usually turns into a heated debate between the positives and negatives of ...

Is the Michelin Pilot Sport about to get super..?

Thinking back over my history with tires, one moment sticks in the mind - the first time I had a set of Michelin Pilot Sports fitted. The aggressive tread de...

Tire reviews total tire guide

The tire reviews total tire guide is now live. The guide is a collection of articles explaining everything about tires, from how they are made, the meaning o...

Tire Seasons

Tire care and Tire life

Tire sidewalls - What does it all mean?

Is true tire price comparison finally here

Price comparison websites are big news online, with sites like Kelkoo and Pricerunner generating hundreds of millions of pounds worth of business for their r...

2010 Reader Track Day Tire Comparison

Nige (also affectionately known as wh00sher on pistonheads.com) does a few trackdays. 10,000 track miles in the last 2 years to be precise, which includes ov...

EVO does winter tires... on track!

Leading British car magazine EVO has an unusual slant on the regular winter tire test. Taking 2 identical Jaguar XFRs (5.0 litre Supercharged 500bhp V8!) and...

Michelin Launch the Michelin Pilot Sport 3

So, one of our all time favourite tires, and arguably the tire that first got us into rubber has had a facelift! With big expectations the Michelin Pilot Spo...

Video: All Season Tires VS Winter Tires

Still not convinced a set of winter tires can really make a difference on snow and ice? This might convince you otherwise. Two identical cars, one fitted wit...

2009 Year in Review

As the year draws to a close now is good time to reflect on the past 12 months in the world of tires. This is tirereviews first look at the year as a whole w...

7 Reasons to Consider Winter Tires

After a week of snow and ice on UK roads people are finally starting to take winter tires seriously. A legal requirement in most of northern Europe winter ty...

2009 Tirerack Ultra low rolling resistance tire test

With petrol prices rocketing and "green" being very much on the agenda, ultra low rolling resistance tires are very much in fashion with the tire manufacture...

SEMA Roundup - new tire launches

The SEMA show in Vegas (Specialty Equipment Market Association) was in full swing last week, and as usual there have been a number of new tire launches.Read ...

Tirereviews is now on twitter!

Well it had to happen sooner or later - tirereviews is finally on twitter! If you're interested in tires and want to stay up to date with current news, infor...

<b>Win Prizes:</b> Submit reviews to win

To celebrate the official launch of tirereviews.co.uk we're giving away prizes! After we reach 1000 reviews a draw will take place and the winners will be no...

How a tire is constructed

Tires are wonderfully complex and often misunderstood pieces of engineering so here are tirereviews we've cut one up to show you exactly how they're construc...

Michelin and Goodyear rank highest in JD Power tire survey

Michelin ranks highest in original equipment tire satisfaction in three segments, while Goodyear ranks highest in one segment, according to the J.D. Power an...

Auto Express Tire of the year 2009

Auto Express has named the Pirelli P Zero Tire of the Year, ahead of three other competing brands. According to the magazine, Pirelli won the award for desig...

Dunlop Qualifier RR

Is it too far to claim a tire saved your life? Perhaps, but the Dunlop Qualifier RR certainly saved me the embarrassment of my CBR600 sliding down the track ...