{"id":12072,"date":"2016-02-12T00:12:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T00:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12072"},"modified":"2016-02-11T10:14:42","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T10:14:42","slug":"continental-and-mercedes-offer-free-tests-of-winter-tyres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/continental-and-mercedes-offer-free-tests-of-winter-tyres","title":{"rendered":"Continental and Mercedes offer free tests of winter tyres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-GB\">Get to know the benefits of winter tyres at the wheel! A free taster session is being offered by Continental Tyres, on 13<sup>th<\/sup> February (Saturday) and 21<sup>st<\/sup> February (Sunday), at Mercedes-Benz World in Weybridge, Surrey.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">Test their latest generation of Continental winter tyres in a 20-minute Driving Experience on two cars. One car is fitted with summer tyres and the other has winter tyres on. Test them on a simulated ice surface, for free. Get a first-hand experience of the big difference in stopping distances! Vehicles on winter tyres come to a stop on a snow-covered road after 35 meters (at 30mph). Normal tyres require 43 metres, at 8 metres more. Winter tyres don&#8217;t harden in lower temperatures (below +7\u00b0C), so give better grip and stopping ability, thus better safety.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\">Some research by Continental found nearly 47% of motorists in UK lack awareness about winter tyres. The Department of Transport found that 48% of car accidents are caused by skidding in the winter. Comparatively, it is only 11% in dry weather. Mercedes-Benz World is the brand experience centre offering an interactive world of heritage, values, passion and innovation. To book a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tyrereviews.co.uk\/Article\/Test-winter-tyres-for-free-with-Continental-and-Mercedes.htm\" target=\"_blank\">free taster session<\/a>, call on 0370 400 4000, to Mercedes-Benz World and check availability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get to know the benefits of winter tyres at the wheel! A free taster session is being offered by Continental Tyres, on 13th February (Saturday) and 21st February (Sunday), at Mercedes-Benz World in Weybridge, Surrey. Test their latest generation of Continental winter tyres in a 20-minute Driving Experience on two cars. One car is fitted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freebies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12073,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12072\/revisions\/12073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freeinuk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}