TYRE SAFETY A “TICKING TIME BOMB”, WARNS MANCHESTER TYRE BOSS
15 May 2015The manager of a tyre and vehicle maintenance centre in Waterloo Road, Manchester, is urging motorists to pay closer attention to their tyres – warning that the number of illegal tyres in circulation on local roads is posing a grave risk to safety. Paul Duff, a Multi Site Manager for ATS Euromaster, says that nearly 90 per cent of the tyres his team have replaced this year have had less than 1.6mm of tread remaining – meaning they were illegal when customers drove onto the forecourt. “Tyre safety has got a lot worse in this area over the last five years,” he says. “More