Winter Tyres in Sheffield

A winter tyre is built on a softer compound, cut with thousands of fine sipes, and together they hold their grip below 7°C, on frost and slush and on plain cold, wet tarmac on Sheffield roads. Once the roads warm up the compound wears quickly and the steering loses its edge, so nobody runs them all year across Sheffield and the towns around it.

In Sheffield, expect winters that are more damp than frozen, frost coming and going between December and February in a normal year, which sets the terms. From about December to February a winter set is a sensible extra, above all for early starts, exposed roads and anyone whose day does not stop for snow for drivers from Sheffield to Worksop.

Typically, two sets, swapped each autumn and each spring, is how most people run them, and the swap is nothing to dread from City to Aughton. One tip: a second set of steel wheels turns the swap into a 10-minute job with the car on the ramp at any of the 21 centres.

2 centres sit within 0.9 miles of the middle of Sheffield, the closer of them 0.6 miles out; both are bookable for winter tyres at checkout, and the other 19 centres are spread from Sheffield to Worksop, with the nearest to your postcode shown first at checkout.