When to change winter tires ??

When the temperature drops below 7 degrees Celsius, you should consider the safety of traffic with a vehicle equipped with winter tires. They ensure your stability when traveling on potentially slippery roads.

Depending on the climatic conditions of each place, it requires us to know when to replace summer tires with winter tires. It is also important to understand some provincial rules that require winter tires to be replaced

When do you take winter tires off?

When temperatures climb to 7°C or higher and stay there reliably, you’ll take them off. Winter tires are designed to allow use from around 7°C and down.

Are all-season tires good for winter?

All-season tires are the foremost prevalent choice of tires in North America since they can be utilized in a wide assortment of temperatures and territories, thus the title. This moreover implies that the elastic compound utilized for all-season tires are ordinarily harder than the elastic compound utilized for winter tires since they ought to final longer and provide grip at a more extensive temperature run. The destruction to utilizing all-season tires within the winter is that they ordinarily don’t perform as well when the exterior temperature drops below  7 degrees Celsius. On the other hand, winter tires are made from a gentler compound and have tread squares that are outlined to grasp the street more when navigating frigid and snowy terrain. As such, on the off chance that you live in a range where it tends to snow, it’s prescribed that you simply utilize winter tires for extreme security. Whereas all-season tires can in fact get the work done, they won’t perform as well in frigid conditions, which are ordinarily underneath  7 degrees Celsius.

What tools do you need to change winter tires? 

To ensure your safety when replacing tires, here are the necessary equipments: 

• Service jack
• Safety stands
• Lug wrench and/or sockets
• Breaker bar
• Compressor

What’s the cost to change winter tires?

At Autonet, The cost of changing winter tires range from $60 to $80 per set of tires removed from the rim, mounted, balanced and reinstalled.