Tyre safety tips for caravanners

A high proportion of the 2 million or so caravan owners, encouraged by the current spell of warm weather, will be hitting the road over the next few weeks and mytyres – the online tyre retailer – is offering a number of tyre safety tips to ensure a trouble free holiday break.

Out of season storage conditions can sometimes have a detrimental effect on motor caravan and trailer caravan tyres and so owners are advised to carry out simple checks to ensure their safety and the safety of their passengers is protected:

Carefully examine tyres to ensure that there are no cuts or bulges and that the sidewalls are sound and not affected by ozone cracking

By law, tyres must have a minimum of 1.6mm of tread although mytyres recommends that tyres with less than 2.5mm of tread should be considered for replacement.

Owners of trailer caravans with tyres that are over 7 years old should have them replaced irrespective of their condition

Tyre pressures are vital and should be checked and adjusted in accordance with the manufacturer’s handbook

Caravan owners wanting to replace tyres and looking for the best deals should log on to mytyres.co.uk.