TYRE SAFETY TIPS FOR CARAVANNERS

Timely advice from mytyres as caravanners hit the road over the holiday period




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 www.mytyres.co.uk



For further press information contact Chris Wakley or Tom Callow at Automotive PR on 020 7494 8050 or cwakley@automotivepr.com / tcallow@automotivepr.com



Note to Editors



Delticom is Europe’s leading online tyre retailer and operates in the UK as mytyres.co.uk. The company was founded in Hanover in 1999 and has 107 online shops in 35 countries. It offers private and business customers an unrivalled range of competitively priced tyres for cars, motorcycles, truck and bus, 4x4 and light commercial vehicles. The company offers 100 tyre brands and more than 25,000 specific tyre models. The service offers direct delivery to a customer’s home, place of work or to one of more than 25,000 service partners across Europe and over 1,700 in the UK alone, who will provide a quality and expert tyre fitting service.