Tyre Care

Maintaining the correct air pressure in your vehicle's tyres is critical, not only for your safety, but in order to gain maximum life from your investment. While Jarvis Service & Tyre Centres will ensure your vehicle's tyres are inflated to the correct pressure at service time, it is a good idea to periodically check and adjust tyre pressures (including spare) yourself.

Make sure you inflate your tyres when cold and to the manufacturer's recommended pressure on your vehicle's tyre decal, usually found on or near the centre pillar (your owners handbook will tell you exactly) - NOT what is inscribed on the tyre. Doing this will ensure that the vehicle's load (mass) is spread efficiently across the tyre, giving maximum and even contact (and even wear) with the road surface.

Correctly rotating all of your vehicle's tyres (including spare if applicable) can help extend the life of your tyres. Depending on your vehicle, front and rear tyres will wear at different rates. Rotating your wheels and tyres with each service will help to share this wear over all of your tyres and can dramatically extend their life as a result.

Having your wheels balanced also helps to keep your wheels, and hence tyres, spinning smoothly and evenly. This will give you a smoother and safer driving experience as well as maintaining a good tyre life.

Your vehicle's overall condition and roadworthiness will impact on tyre life. Regardless of make or model, there are many steering and suspension components involved in keeping all of your vehicle's wheels safely on the road surface. If any of these are worn or not working as they should, excessive tyre wear can occur. The usual culprits are worn shock absorbers and these can do a lot of damage, but many other components can contribute to abnormal tyre wear, including worn steeing rack ends, stabilisers, control arms and suspension springs.