HALF OF THE TYRES WE REMOVE ARE ILLEGAL, WARNS DORSET TYRE TECHNICIAN
15 May 2015A technician at a tyre and vehicle maintenance centre on Wimborne Road, in the Bournemouth suburb of Kinson, is urging motorists to check the condition of their tyres ahead of the May half-term, when many families will set off on long journeys. Darren Rankin of ATS Euromaster warns that more than half of the tyres he and his colleagues have replaced in Kinson this year have had less than 1.6mm of tread remaining – meaning they were illegal when customers drove onto the forecourt. He blames a rise in the number of vehicles on the road with low profile and wider tyres, which