Tyre Wear Indicators

[Daniel]

Turns out my car is (over)due for it's MOT. Since I have a 1st Lotus Day in March I was hoping not to have to put new rear tyres on before then.

 

The tyres are basically down to the wear indicator (May have 1/2 or 1mm to go). What I wanted to know is whether or not the wear indicator is the law for minimun tread and will it fail a MOT on this?

 

I'll probably take it to Horizon for a service and a MOT in the next couple of weeks depending how busy they are. I believe they have a MOT centre nearby them.

[Scott_Mac]

Minimum is 1.7mm acorss 70% of the tyre... so check the depth and you should be ok.

 

I think the wear indicators are set to about 2mm to give a little leeway.

 

Seen as most places give a free re-test, or cheap one... i'd stick it through and see what happens. Alternatively get Mike to check, if its close he may suggest the same, but he'll have more of an idea.

[Daniel]

Cheers Scott. I'll give it a bash then. Seeing as you seem to know Horizon well, do they have a courtesy car or something cos I'd need to get back to work after leaving the car with them.

[Wuddie]

excuse my ignorance..

 

But what does the tyre wear indicator look like??, i just gauge my tires by the process "do they look bald" no? dont need replacing then!

 

cheers

[Scott_Mac]

Yup, you'll need to phone in advance to check you could borrow the car though...

[Scott_Mac]

Wuddie, if you check inside the grooves of the tyres there will be ridges occasionally - covering the width of the groove and about 4mm in length.

[ipanter]

Modman i have 2 P0s rears in my garage looking for a new home, they don't have loads left on them but i recon they will be good for another 3-4k miles, i now have T1-rs on my car so they are no good to me.

 

I was given them, so if they are any good to you you can have them free if you collect.

 

HTH

Ian

[Daniel]

Cheers for the offer Ian. I'll check and see what Horizon say when I get around to phoning them. I'll let you know.

 

Cheers!

Dan