All about tyres | Continental Tyres

Learn all you need to know about tyres – and more besides – with this comprehensive tyre lexicon from Continental.

All about tyres

All about tyres Tyre essentials Buying tyres Tyre care and maintenance Tyre replacement and fitting Tyre damages Hazardous driving situations Continental Winter World

A family car in a white winter scene

Continental Winter World

A variety of SUVs lined up with Continental tyres

Tyre essentials

What is an SUV?

Feel the pressure

Tyre care and maintenance

Tyre pressure

Measuring tire tread depth

Tyre care and maintenance

Tread depth

Patterns with a purpose

Tyre essentials

Tyre tread patterns

Replacing tires

Replacing tyres

All about retorquing wheels

Tyre care and maintenance

Retorquing wheels

Tire mileage

Tyre care and maintenance

Mileage and tyre wear

Balancing tyres

Tyre care and maintenance

Balancing tyres

Storing tyres correctly

Tyre care and maintenance

Storing tyres

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Continental in numbers

First choice for leading vehicle manufacturers

Almost every third car in Europe is delivered
with tyres from Continental.

Multi award-winning tyres

912 tests from 2009 until end of 2019

739 times we have received the highest recommendation.

New test results

ContiPremiumContact™ 5 ContiWinterContact™ TS 850

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544 locations in
60 countries

In the past 10 years, the number of Continental employees has grown by over 100,000.