Tyre Neglect Highlights General Reluctance to Spend Cash on Car Safety

Tyre Neglect Highlights General Reluctance to Spend Cash on Car Safety

This release is all about tyres, but it highlights a general problem; UK drivers are cutting corners on car maintenance as renting a vehicle replaces ownership. If you don’t own it, you have no interest [...] The post Tyre Neglect Highlights General Reluctance to Spend Cash on Car Safety appeared first on .

ETRMA Q1 2025: Truck and Agricultural Tyre Sales Down

The European Tyre and Rubber Manufacturers’ Association (ETRMA) released first-quarter 2025 replacement sales data, highlighting declines in Truck and Agricultural tyres. ETRMA First Quarter 2025: Truck and Agricultural Tyre Sales Decline Amid Ongoing Market Pressures As reported by ETRMA, the Truck tyre category’s volume in the first quarter was very weak, at -4% compared to the same quarter of 2024 and -11% compared with the pre-pandemic first…

Tyre defects lead to 2.15 million MOT failures

New figures from the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency have revealed that 2.15 million vehicles failed their MOTs because of tyre defects. This is up from just over two million […] The post Tyre defects lead to 2.15 million MOT failures first appeared on Bodyshop Magazine.

Tyres in Europe: the replacement market between signs of recovery and new uncertainties in the ETRMA balance sheet of Q1 2025