When to Get New Tires | Bob Moore Collision Center

While brakes might get all the love when thinking of your car's safety system, it's your tires that do the lion's share of the work to keep you and your family safe on the road. Your tires are your first line of defense while driving and are tasked with handling rain, sleet, snow, and a wide range of other challenging terrain. So when should you replace your car's tires? Bob Moore Collision Center is here to help! Whether you know it's time for your vehicle to get a new set of tires, or you've recently blown a tire, our Collision Center in Oklahoma City can help. Schedule your repair with us online today.

How to Know When to Get New Tires

Assuming you haven't blown a tire and you need one right away, you can usually figure out when to get new tires by mileage or tread. Usually, your tires should last about 50,000 miles, though they could last as little as 30,000 or as much as 70,000. Your wear will depend on environmental factors and on how you drive your vehicle. The best way to know when to replace your tires is to measure the tire tread at regular intervals. Tread depth measures how deep your tires' grooves go. They wear down over time, reducing your tire's effectiveness. Deeper tire tread helps disperse water from the road, helping with grip. The deeper the tread, the better your tires deal with water. You can use a tread depth gauge to measure how deep your tread goes, and the minimum legal tire tread depth is 1.6 mm. If you're approaching that level, you'll want to replace your tires as soon as possible.

Bob Moore Collision Center Tire Services

At Bob Moore Collision Center, we're here to assist with all your tire needs. Whether you need tire repairs, such as patching a tire, or tire replacement, our team can help. If you have a flat tire or a blown tire on the side of the road, we'll send a tow truck out to you to ensure you get to our Collision Center safely. We can assist you in finding the right new tires for your vehicle, and we'll walk you through when to get new tires based on mileage, tread depth, and damage. While you can always hit a nail on the road or hit a curb, there are things you can do to keep your tires healthy. Checking your tread at regular intervals is helpful, but the best thing you can do to keep your tires healthy is to get a tire rotation. This helps your tires wear evenly, last longer, and helps keep you safe. This can be done at any of our 15 Bob Moore car dealerships around Oklahoma City, Norman and Edmond. 

What Tires Are Best for My Car?

There are several types of tires, and the best one for your car depends on how you drive! Generally speaking, there are four types of tires: all-season, summer, winter, and off-road. For the vast majority of folks, all-season tires are the best option. That's what the majority of vehicles come off the line with, and they deliver good capability through all four seasons, with strong wet-weather performance and decent snow ability. While those tires are good for the general population, if you find yourself driving in winter conditions several months of the year, winter tires might be best. These snow tires are designed to provide extra traction on snow and ice, to the point where a two-wheel-drive vehicle with winter tires will perform better than an all-wheel-drive vehicle with all-season tires. Summer tires are softer and stickier, and should really only be used on sports cars to maximize grip and speed at high speeds. Off-road tires excel exactly where you think they do, in gravel, dirt, and mud. For specific brand recommendations for your vehicle, visit our collision center in OKC!

Schedule Tire Replacement in OKC with Bob Moore Collision Center

Whether you've found yourself stuck on the side of the road with a flat tire and no way home, or your tread is lower than you thought, our team can help. Visit us today to get your tires replaced.