Ensure winter tyres are just for more damage?

Posted on 09-03-2015 at 15:59 by ricardo – 43 Comments”

Say, winterbandenmaffia, this was not the appointment, eh. That soft rubber of you should understand prevent motorists chunks.

Yes, it is spring, but we deposit us one more time on the winterbandendiscussie. Leasing company Alphabet has the data of more than 20,000 Dutch leasebakken with winterrubber analyzed, to come to the conclusion that this extremely mild winter “in terms of percentage damage for a reason, motorists on summer tires are stay away.”

24 percent of reed damage

A bold claim, that the leasing company is found with the following figures: in the winter of 2013, 2014 and 2015 reed more than 24 percent of the cars with winter tyres damage. That is a whole percent more than the cars that are still on the zomerrubber were. Not a terribly big difference, but the winterrubber would be correct for a much larger discrepancy.

Alphabet suggests two possible causes:

““Winter tyres are very suitable for use on snow, and less effective on a dry road surface. Not only the mild winter could be a cause for the many damage, it is also possible that motorists roekelozer going to drive when they are winter tires.”

Especially the latter argument is by a competitor LeasePlan regularly cited as the cause for the non-collection of the damages. Drivers feel winterrubber apparently less vulnerable, and therefore more risk is taken.

Ergo: only if the Rayonhoofden to the Tour to discuss is the time to agree on winterrubber thought to (or if you’re in one of these EU countries). Until that time, did you do with that soft rubber only but less grip, which only leads to more damage.

Nevertheless, we buy more winter tyres than ever

From the figures it was further determined that the use of winter tyres hard in recent years has increased. Six years ago, only 64 percent of the leaserijders for winter tires, this winter share has increased to almost 90 percent.