Summer tyres

Summer tyres

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Find all the important information about buying and changing your new summer tyres at a glance.


Safety and driving comfort in the heat and summer rain: Choosing suitable tyres for your Mercedes-Benz, Mercedes AMG or smart plays a decisive role not only in winter. When bad weather and road conditions prevail, even in summer, a particularly good tyre is essential. Find out here what to consider when buying and changing summer tyres.

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Winter vs. summer

How can you tell the difference between summer tyres and winter tyres?

In warmer conditions, the tread on summer tyres provides extensive contact with the road surface. This not only improves your driving safety, but also ensures a shorter braking distance, precise steering and better handling of the vehicle.
Better for the environment: lower fuel consumption, low noise, less abrasion. As summer tyres have a harder rubber compound than winter tyres, rolling resistance is lower. As a result, the tyres have less abrasion, a lower noise level and significantly lower fuel consumption. However, the summer tyres still cover important properties for bad conditions: the tread is also adapted for aquaplaning, so the better grip in longitudinal and lateral directions ensures more driving stability.

Tyre labelling

How to read summer tyres

Car tyres from different manufacturers have different designations and imprints or symbols. That is why tyres have a tyre label. This provides information about the tyre's various characteristics in the form of numbers, letters and symbols. Not only the tyre marking provides information about your permissible wheel/tyre combination, but also your vehicle documents. The markings on the tyre wall contain the most important data about the tyre. And what do they mean?

How much tread must the summer tyre have?

As soon as the temperatures rise above seven degrees Celsius for a longer period in spring, the winter tyres should be replaced by summer tyres. A minimum tread depth of 1.6 millimetres applies to tyres in Germany. Since worn tyres endanger braking performance, we recommend checking the tread depth regularly. Our tyres are available in quality A as well as quality B in different tread depths and manufacturing data or even as new.

Quality A means:

✓ Age (DOT) up to 4 years
✓ Tread depth from 6.0 mm
✓ Tread condition: normal traces of usage

Quality B means:
✓ Age (DOT) up to 6 years
✓ Tread depth 4.0 to 5.9 mm
✓ Tread condition: normal traces of usage

Our tyre manufacturers

From A-Z

Bridgestone tyres
Continental tyres
Dunlop tyres
Falken tyres
Fulda tyres
Goodride tyres
Goodyear tyres
Hankook tyres
Kleber tyres
Kumho tyres
Michelin tyres
Nexen tyres
Nokian tyres
Pirelli tyres
Semperit tyres
Vredestein tyres
Yokohama tyres

Common winter tyre dimensions

Top sellers by tyre size

205/60/16
225/45/18
245/40/18
245/45/18
255/45/19
235/55/19
235/50/19
255/50/19
245/45/19
235/45/20
255/40/20
315/40/21
265/40/21
275/45/21

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Alternative products you can find in our shop

Tyres

Buy affordable tyres in our online shop. Buying used tyres is a matter of trust, as only a suitable tyre means the highest level of safety on the road for you. Therefore we not only make sure that we can offer you a wide range of different brand tyres, but also want to support you with our customer service. Whether you need all-season tyres, summer tyres or winter tyres. We will help you to find a suitable tyre.

We also offer a selection of Off-road tyres, M+S summer tyres and run-flat tyres . These can be purchased in a variety of tread depths from 4 to over 10 mm or undriven or rolled, DOT, tyre sizes from 165 to 335 and speed index. 

Rims

In the Mercedes-Benz online shop you will find a wide variety of rims for your Mercedes-Benz and Mercedes AMG as well as rims for your smart. The high-quality rims are available in various sizes, colours and designs.

In addition to the steel wheel classics, we offer alloy wheels in sizes from 15 to 23 inches. Discover your new favourite now! And complete it independently with tyres suitable to the season.

Give your car a completely new look with the new rim designs by Mercedes-Benz, rims by Mercedes AMG and smart. You can easily buy original rims directly from the Mercedes-Benz Used Parts Centre online. Our steel wheels as well as our alloy wheels impress with highest quality and great variety.

Find a partner workshop

Are you looking for a suitable workshop to have your summer tyres fitted and balanced? Here you will find the right partner workshop!

 

 

Frequently asked questions

All questions about our summer tyres.

 

In Germany there is a situational winter tyre obligation, according to which the tyres must be adapted to the weather conditions. The rule of thumb is to change to winter tyres from October to Easter. As soon as the temperatures rise above seven degrees Celsius for a longer period in spring, the winter tyres should be replaced by summer tyres.

A statutory minimum tread depth of 1.6 millimetres applies to all tyres.
No, we do not buy wheels, tires or rims from individuals.
The summer tyre may wear out after about six to seven years. Sufficient tread depth and the age of the tyre (DOT*) are decisive for the service life. However, the durability can be influenced by numerous factors such as: Driving style, mileage, air pressure, tyre model, bearing or axle setting.
There is no maximum period prescribed in Germany. However: With advanced age, the rubber compound will harden and becomes more brittle. This means that the tyre loses its positive properties. Therefore, regular checks are recommended from the age of 6 years.
Information on the suitable wheel/tyre combination and tyre size can be found in your vehicle registration document. This indicates the suitable dimension that you can fit on your vehicle. You can also use our VIN search to find the suitable complete wheel set or ask here our trained automotive professionals for advice.
The DOT number of the tyres stands for “Department of Transportation”, i.e. the date of manufacture and the tyre age. The four-digit number is printed on the tyre sidewall. The code contains the production week and the production year. The DOT number is therefore an important criterion when buying used tyres and new tyres. Example: a tyre with DOT 1920 was produced in week 19 in 2020.
Heel and toe wear is a slanted wear of the tire's tread blocks. These are usually located on the outer sidewalls of a tyre. Heel and toe wear only has an effect on driving behaviour in very few cases. Heel and toe wear is often caused by incorrect air pressures in the tyres or by incorrect axle settings on the vehicle. However, this is neutralised again after a few kilometres when the tyre pressure is corrected.
At high speed on summer roads, winter tyres are exposed to much higher thermal stress than summer tyres. The tyre treads of the summer tyres are equipped with a heat-resistant tyre tread compound to cope with these extreme stresses.
Only if the dismantled parts meet our precisely defined quality criteria they are stored and sold. Our quality classes are divided into A and B quality and vary in their requirements depending on the product group. You can view these under the following link and are thus well informed about the quality status you can expect with your order. To get to the overview click here

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