Wut? More than 200,000 cars drive on winter tyres

Posted on 12-06-2015 at 13:38 by ricardo – 86 Comments”

Autoblog Verkeerswaarschuwing: while the mercury at some places of the country to the 31°C rises, and asphalt in the sun today, warmer and warmer, there are many motorists on too soft rubber drive.

No, we did not really feel to be on this epic Friday with epic temperatures on winter tires to begin with, but this statement of Euromaster, we could not ignore. The bandenboer claims, on the basis of own data, that in the Netherlands there are currently 200,000 automobiles are the winterrubber have not yet swapped for summer tyres. Jos Gesthuizen of Euromaster says that five to eight per cent, the bill has not yet completed.

“This number is slightly higher than last year at this time, [ … ] Motorists are in bad weather, much less aware of the need to timely change. In addition, there is always a small group that is aware longer drive on winter tyres with as argument the summer tyres to spare. It comes here often to winter tires that are almost worn out, and the next winter season, not more”

And the reason is that the number of winterbandenvergeters this year is higher, they call them the bad weather of the past few months. Top of people who simply do not know (we are afraid that this is an awfully large group), and procrastination.

Reminder: winter tyres with these temperatures, a longer braking distance, rolling resistance is higher making your car drink more, but most of all: a little bit of sporty drive with winterrubbers causes them to wear faster than the seat bolsters in the Mercedes-Maybach from Rick Ross. Change those things, now.