Summer Tyres in Edinburgh

Look under any car parked from Edinburgh to Whitburn and the odds are it is on summer tyres, and its compound is set up to do its best work above about 7°C, on dry roads and in warm rain alike, and to wear evenly at motorway speed. Under about 7°C the rubber hardens and the grip goes with it, and braking distances in the wet grow, which is why the 7°C rule matters on any road in Edinburgh.

In Edinburgh a summer set is properly in its element, on the 7°C rule, in a window running May to September year in, year out, as the month strip shows. Where they struggle is the long, wet winter: at anything under 7°C the compound firms up and wet braking suffers from City Centre to Portobello.

Where the car can be left alone on an icy morning, or a second set covers the cold months, a summer tyre is the obvious choice for drivers from Edinburgh to Whitburn. If there is no sitting out a frosty morning, then, an all-season set is the better answer, and both come fully fitted in Edinburgh and the towns around it.

The 2 centres nearest the middle of Edinburgh are 0.5 miles and 1.6 miles out, in EH2 and EH6; either will fit summer tyres, as do the other 25 centres from Edinburgh to Whitburn.