While for safety reasons, and to ensure that your car is able to continue to perform properly, it is important to have the correct tyres for drastic weather conditions, such as heavy snow and ice or torrential rainfall, for most of the time all season tyres will enable you to drive effectively. All season, or all weather tyres, are ones which are designed for usage all year round. All season is a more appropriate name, because these tyres are not designed to cope with excessive conditions.

All season tyres are the ones you are most likely to find a vehicle fitted with when you buy one from an online company such as www.motors.co.uk or a local dealership – whether it is a new or used car. They are intended to offer a balance between the different requirements such as grip, traction, durability, safety and performance, without favouring any of these in the way tyres for more particular weather conditions do. They offer a longer life than most specialist summer, winter or wet weather tyres because they are made using a harder compound of rubber; however, this does mean that they offer less in the way of grip and the ability to handle corners. This is not an issue for the vast majority of the time when the roads are not icy or wet, but in such conditions, all season tyres will not match specialist ones for performance or road safety.

Nonetheless they are perfectly suited to driving in Britain for most of the year, as extreme weather is still only an infrequent occurrence. Despite this, their usage is relatively rare – with the majority of drivers opting for summer tyres, which are particularly suited to urban road surfaces such as asphalt and concrete and which offer better braking during high speed driving, such as on motorways.