Thanks to everyone for your suggestions. I’ll certainly be taking action next week.
Does anyone have any recommendations of somewhere to get the tyres changed?
I live near Hexham.
I assume taking the car to any old tyre shop probably isn’t a good idea.
I’m seriously thinking also serve adopting the Alternative tyre profile 205 65 15 v.
Are there any problems doing this or is it a straight swap?
Many thanks again,
Nick
You haven't said the size of your existing tyres. If they're 195/60/15 then going to 195/65/15 is fine. It gives you an extra 2inches in circumference or just over 2.5%. Your speedo should still remain slightly on the plus side of true speed.
However if you go from 195/60/15 to 205/65/15 that gives an extra 4inches in circumference over the 195/60 which is 5.26% bigger. So your speedo will probably need to be recalibrated at the very least.
