Selecting your tyres is a personal choice

Just like buying a car, selecting your tyres is a personal choice. Here you can find information on the best way to determine which tyre is for you.

Don’t know where to start?

Have a look around the website to understand the right tyre for you need and budget of feel free to contact us to speak to one of our tyre experts.

We have also included some guidelines below that may help you in your next tyre purchase:

5 things to consider when choosing the right tyre: 

1. 1. Your driving habits 

If you drive an RV or 4WD, you'll probably want an all purpose-built tyre design to match your driving needs. These designs have trade-offs including traction highway ride quality and, fairly recently, performance. Highway ride quality diminishes, as the tread design becomes more aggressive.

1. 2. What size tyre/s you need

You can often improve ride, handling and performance by changing your tyre size. We can tell you if there is a size available, what changes to your cars performance will occur, keep within Government and State regulations and most importantly keep you safe when driving.

1. 3. Your local driving conditions

Your local National Tyres expert is exactly that. Local. They can help you select the best tyres for your situation based on the conditions that your city, town, state or region delivers. A person who lives in Cairns in Queensland will often choose a significantly different tyre for their car than somebody who lives in Melbourne in Victoria.

Most tyres purchased today are the all-season type that appeals to the great majority of drivers who seek acceptable performance and traction across the spectrum of possible driving conditions in all four seasons. We can help you analyse your driving conditions.

1. 4. How many tyres you need

As you know, determining how many tyres you need will directly impact on buying the best quality you can afford. National Tyres can help you decide how many tyres you need now or whether you can opt for a more progressive, rotational approach. We recommend replacing tyres in pairs so there is not uneven wear, no alignment problems and so that you car in remains roadworthy.

1. 5. Buying the best quality you can afford

Obviously the more you pay, the better the tyre quality. However a good exercise would be to calculate the total price for your tyre purchase and divide that by the kilometers of service to get the cost per kilometer. You'll see that the better tyres are the better value. When you have kilometerage guarantees to compare, this is very easy, but there is another way.

When you are comparing tyres within a particular brand, use the UTQG ratings (treadwear) to calculate value; divide the treadwear rating by the price - the highest number should be your pick if you want the best value by wear. This system won't help you compare between brands, however, because there is no standardisation for treadwear ratings. Traction and temperature ratings are standardised and useful for making comparisons between brands.

Let our team of experts help you.

If you have any questions about which tyre is for you, contact us and see for yourself why we’re regarded as pioneering leaders among Australian tyre service companies, or request a quote for new tyres today.