Summer Tyres in Leicester

Walk down any street in Abbey and most of the cars will be on summer tyres, on a compound made to be at its best above about 7°C, in dry weather and warm rain, and to wear slowly even at motorway pace. Colder than that, the compound goes hard, most of all when it is raining, which is the whole point of the 7°C rule around Leicester and nearby.

Around Leicester summer tyres do their best work, by the 7°C rule, across the April to October window, and the month strip below says the same. It is the soggy winter that catches them out: at anything under 7°C the compound firms up and wet grip falls away from Abbey to Blaby.

If the car is rarely out before the frost has lifted, or a second set covers the cold months, a summer set is the sensible buy on Leicester roads. Where the car cannot stay at home when it is cold, then, an all-season set is worth pricing up, and all 16 centres fit both in LE2 or any other district.

LE2 and LE2 hold the 2 closest to the middle of Leicester, 1 mile and 1.3 miles out; both are bookable for summer tyres at checkout, as do the other 14 centres from Leicester to Nuneaton, with free slots shown centre by centre at checkout.