Winter Tyres in Edinburgh

Winter tyres are built around a soft compound and a finely sliced tread, and that pairing keeps its grip below 7°C, on frost, on slush and on cold wet tarmac across Edinburgh and the towns around it. Once the roads warm up they wear faster and feel vaguer, so they are fitted for the cold months and taken off again from Edinburgh to Whitburn.

Climate-wise, the pattern around Edinburgh is long, wet winters, with a frost most weeks from November right through to March and, most years, a proper cold snap, and that is the backdrop. Across November to March, that is winter-tyre country, for early starts, exposed roads and anyone who cannot take the day off when it snows for drivers from Edinburgh to Whitburn.

In practice, two sets and two swaps a year is the routine, and each swap is done in a booked slot anywhere around Edinburgh. Better still, keep the other tyres on a spare set of wheels and the swap takes minutes on the ramp for anyone in Edinburgh.

Measured from the middle of Edinburgh, the nearest centre is 0.5 miles out and the next 1.6 miles; winter tyres are on the list at both, and the same fully fitted price applies across the 27, with free slots shown centre by centre at checkout.