Volkswagen Tyres

Know Your Tyres

At Marriott Volkswagen, your safety and your vehicle’s performance are our top priorities. Tyres play a crucial role in both, helping you stay safe on the road while ensuring your Volkswagen performs at its best.

If you have any concerns about your tyres, we encourage you to visit us for a professional tyre health check. However, basic tyre checks can also be done at home. For your safety, we recommend checking your tyre pressure, general condition, and tread depth at least once a month.

Using the correct tyres for your Volkswagen is essential. Original tyres are selected through extensive testing and collaboration between the vehicle and tyre manufacturers. This ensures optimal performance in areas such as road noise, fuel efficiency, and handling. For this reason, if you believe your tyres need replacing, we recommend seeking advice from an authorised Volkswagen centre.

Should your tyres need replacing, we can provide tyres that are of the exact same quality of the original factory-fitted tyres. All at competitive prices.

Maintenance

In order to keep your tyres roadworthy, regular maintenance as well as correct replacement of your tyres is advised.

There are three basic checks you can do on your tyres, in order to help prolong their life, enhance fuel efficiency and decrease CO2 emissions, which all will allow your Volkswagen to brake, accelerate and go around corners correctly.

Check the pressure of your tyres.
Check the tread depth is not below 1.6mm, which is the legal requirement; anything under this number is deemed illegal. Tread depth is also paramount in cold and/or wet weather conditions.
Inspect your tyres for any irregularities such as cuts, bulges, uneven wear or embedded objects.

We recommend you do the aforementioned regularly, to ensure your continued safety and performance of your car.

Tyre Pressures

Maintaining the correct tyre pressure is essential for both your safety and your vehicle’s performance. Under-inflated tyres can negatively affect handling and grip, leading to unpredictable driving behaviour. They also increase the risk of a blowout, particularly at higher speeds such as on motorways.

Incorrect tyre pressure can also impact running costs. Under-inflated tyres require more effort to rotate, which can reduce fuel efficiency. In addition, both under- and over-inflated tyres wear out more quickly due to uneven contact with the road.

By keeping your tyres at the correct pressure, you can benefit from improved fuel efficiency, longer tyre life, enhanced safety, and reduced CO₂ emissions.

We recommend checking your tyre pressure at least once a month and before any long journey.

You can find the recommended tyre pressure for your vehicle in your owner’s handbook or on the inside of the fuel filler flap.

Tread Depth

During rain or snow, having above satisfactory tread depth is vital to your safety, as the tread removes the water from the road surface allowing the tyre to more easily grip to the road. As the depth of your tread wears down it loses some of its ability to remove this water, meaning grip is reduced which negatively influences your safety.

Within the UK, the legal requirement of tread-depth is 1.6mm across the central three quarters of your tyre throughout all of it. Failure to meet this standard can result in a fine worth thousands of pounds and three penalty points for each illegal tyre! Not to mention that using tyres in such a state is highly dangerous to yourself, passengers and pedestrians.

If you're sceptical as to whether your tread depth is sufficient, bring your car to us and we will happily check for you. Alternatively, you can do a simple test using a 20p coin to assess the tread depth on your tyres.

Place the coin in the main tread of your tyre. If the marked rim of the coin does not totally disappear into the tread, you may be using illegal tyres which can be verified if you bring your Volkswagen to one of our local Volkswagen Centres.

The most precise way to assess the tread depth of your tyres is to use a calibrated tread depth gauge, which can check the depth in three different points around the tyre.

For more information, please contact Marriott Volkswagen today and speak to our service team who will be able to help you further.

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