Guide: How to find the right tires
COMPARISON TOOL The Touring Club Switzerland is expanding its online tire portal with an additional search tool. The comparison option improves the selection and contributes to the safety of motorists.
The market today offers a wide range of very different car tires. Finding the right tires for your car and your own needs is becoming increasingly difficult. The expansion of the free online portal to mark the 50th anniversary of the TCS tire tests comes at just the right time.
To ensure greater transparency and expanded comparison options when choosing tires, the mobility club is launching an expanded search tool that includes around 17,000 tires for all needs and in various designs and sizes. This new comparison tool is available immediately on the TCS website.
Important help when buying the tires
In just a few steps, you can directly compare summer, winter or all-season tires with regard to their properties in terms of driving safety, fuel consumption, comfort and noise behavior, as well as sustainability and wear. Those who want to know even more precisely can refine the search and also enter parameters such as tire dimension, load and speed index or tire manufacturer.
Experts have been testing tires for 50 years
This year, TCS celebrates the 50th anniversary of its tire tests (center gallery). The demands placed on tires have evolved enormously over these five decades. Not only the cars, but also the environment and the roads have changed. A tire must be safe to drive on any road surface, it must be optimized for rolling resistance and wear as well as low noise, and it must withstand the continuously increasing speeds and weights of cars.
Continuous product development has, for example, reduced the braking distance on wet roads from 80 to 55 meters compared with 1973, which significantly improves road safety.
