Winter Tires in Bowmanville

Winter tires in Bowmanville are not a cosmetic upgrade. Once the temperature sits around 7°C, all-season rubber stiffens and stopping distances on King Street, Liberty Street, and Highway 401 get longer. A winter tire uses a softer compound and a tread that bites snow and slush instead of polishing it.

Bowmanville is the east end of the lakeshore Durham drive. King Street, Liberty Street, and the 401 from the Waverley or Liberty exits are the usual routes west to Whitby. It is a longer trip than Oshawa, and it is still an easy highway run to 1020 Dundas Street East.

Roads north toward Hampton and Newcastle hold snow and ice after Bowmanville's town streets are cleared. If that is your drive to work, winter tires are the difference between rolling through it and finding out the compound in your all-seasons has frozen stiff.

411 Drives sells and installs winter tires for daily drivers, trucks, SUVs, and European cars. Many Ontario insurers also ask for a winter tire discount form — we install the tires, and your insurer sets the discount. We do not promise a dollar amount. We put the right rubber on the car.

Look for the three-peak mountain snowflake on the sidewall. That mark is the winter tire. An all-season with a little snow pictured on the label is not the same thing, and it is not what you want on King Street, Liberty Street, and Highway 401 in January.