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The law (2007)

It's against the law to have:

• Car tyres with tread worn to below 1.6mm;
• A mix of radial and cross ply tyres;
• Over or under-inflated tyres;
• Tyres with cuts, lumps, bulges or tears;
• The wrong sort of tyre fitted to a vehicle or trailer.

In 2003, the British Rubber Manufacturers Association (BRMA) commissioned MIRA to study the effects of tread depth on stopping distances. The study was carried out on 5 different tread depths - 6.7mm, 4.1mm, 2.6mm, 1.6mm (the legal minimum) and 0.9mm.

Result: At the legal minimum tread depth of 1.6mm, the stopping distance is increased by 36.8% on  hot rolled asphalt and 44.6% on smooth concrete.