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Delticom Revamps Irish Website

Delticom has been busy of late. Not only has the company introduced all-inclusive services through its UK portal mytyres.com, the online tyre specialist has redesigned the website for its online presence in Ireland. The Irish site, eiretyres.com, has been totally refreshed with the aim of making it more customer-oriented and easier to navigate.

In addition to a clean, new design, much thought has gone into making the site’s function more user friendly and online purchasing a simpler task. An optimised, clear display of product searches helps customers find the desired product faster, and the various sorting functions help customers choose the right tyre. A leaner order process also shortens ordering times. Compact help functions support the online purchaser and provide answers to the most frequently asked questions as well as offering competent tyre advices.

26th September 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Get Ready for Winter with Deldo

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Winter suddenly seems a whole lot closer, and for many of us that means a change to cold weather tyres is just around the corner. Belgium based wholesaler Deldo reminds customers that it now stocks a complete range of winter tyres, including the recently added Rockstone range. Winter sizes for this exclusive brand are available for the coming winter, with summer fitments available in 2009. In total, more than 25 brands of winter tyre in car, van and 4×4 fitments are available from Deldo, including studdable tyres for the dedicated Scandinavian markets.

17th September 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Delticom Expands its Online Truck Tyre Offering

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Delticom AG, the parent company of online tyre business such as mytyres.co.uk and reifendirekt.de, is reportedly expanding its truck tyres offering at ReifenDirekt. The product portfolio ranges from tyres for light commercial vehicles through business tyres and tyres for heavier trucks right up to special tyres – among other for tractors, forklifts and earth-moving. All well-known truck brands are available, according to the company.

Delticom’s move apparently comes in response to the downturn in the economy that has seen some consumers adapt a “savings instead of safety” policy by taking chances with tyres. Unfortunately, serious accidents involving trucks are not rare. According to statistics, provided by Delti every other truck had a fault in the previous year. In the safety tests prescribed for trucks, more than 47 per cent of the surveyed vehicles had problems, especially with the tyres.

16th September 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Double Coin Makes Retread Specs Available in US

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Double Coin Holdings Ltd. has made retread specifications for Double Coin radial truck and bus tyre casings available in the US. Details include the buffing radius and width for 15 to 24.5-inch rim widths. The specifications also include data for tube type, tubeless, conventional and low-profile tyres. Double Coin compiled the data by working with several strategic retreaders in North America.

Online reports state that the Double Coin truck tyre warranty includes all the normal guarantees, plus a 50 per cent free replacement option. Crucially for retreaders it also includes a casing warranty throughout the life of the second retread.

16th September 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Bad Boy Adds Conti to Online Product Range

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Bad Boy Tires.com, the online tyre retailer in the USA, has made Continental’s products available at its online store, enhancing its brand strategy for online tyre sales.

Jim Seidel, the former Director of Sales for Continental Tire North America, is head of Bad Boy Tires.com, and expects e-tailing to be a growth area for the tyre market: “We are growing our online tire sales business very rapidly and our customers are increasingly requesting tires that they had on their new vehicles as original equipment. As the former director of sales at Continental I know first-hand the strength that the brand enjoys at the O.E. level.”

16th September 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Toyo Web-Based Ad Development System

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Toyo Tire U.S.A. Corp. has launched Toyo ADS (Advertising Development System), a Web-based program that enables Toyo dealers to create their own unique ads for newspaper, print, direct mail and in-store materials. This tool makes it possible for any dealer with a computer, Internet access and a printer to make first-rate ads to promote their own business, according to Toyo.

The password-protected Web site features a step-by-step ad-builder with customizable templates. Dealers create their own print ads using Toyo brand items, product photography and logos along with their own company logo and contact information. The templates also include value-added specials such as a tune-up, brake inspection, oil change and wheel alignment. Personalized ads are saved on the site and can be easily updated at anytime with new products, prices, sizes and sales promotions.

9th September 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Dickies High Vis Range Goes Online

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Dickies high visibility range for vehicle rescue and recovery operators is now available on-line simply by logging-on to www.dickies-rescueandrecovery.co. All garments in the range meet with the current standards laid down in the Safety at Street Works and Road Works Code of Practice. According to the company, the Dickies rescue and recovery high visibility range is designed specifically for the automotive industry.

8th September 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

mytyres.co.uk Offers Fully Fitted Option

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mytyres.co.uk, the Delticom-owned leading online retailer, is now offering a fully fitted service option. The total price of the tyres includes removing the old tyre, fitting the new tyre, valve balance and disposal – all done at a “fully fitted station near you, according to the company’s website. The company is also offering tyres from as low as 20.20 with an extra discount until 10 September 2008.

5th September 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Save £32 Million on MOTs at Kwik-Fit

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Kwik-Fit has calculated that the 2.4 million British motorists due to MOT their car during the peak MOT month of September could save a combined £32 million by heading for their local Kwik-Fit centre. That’s enough cash, the company adds, to fill up over half a million cars with a tank full of unleaded petrol – even at today’s prices. Indeed, despite a recent increase in the RRP of an MOT by 5 per cent, Kwik-Fit says it is pledging to hold its pre-increase offer of £39.95 – representing a saving of £13.15 – 25 per cent below the new RRP of £53.10.

4th September 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

UK Online Car Parts Supplier Reports European Buying ‘Frenzy’

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One UK based online car parts retailer reports a ‘frenzy’ of ordering from our motoring friends in France, Germany and Spain. Quoting a new report, car parts direct says that these continental customers are saving as much as 70 per cent compared with buying in their own country.

Export sales of car parts to do-it-yourself mechanics and the garage trade have increased by 285 per cent in the last year as the value of the euro has risen by around one-fifth. The UK’s weak currency, a good availability of spare parts and fast and low cost delivery into Europe are fuelling record export sales for the online mail order specialist, carparts-direct.co.uk.

27th August 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

TyreSafe Provides Online Tyre Safety Lessons

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TyreSafe – the newly rebranded Tyre Industry Council – has provided an online animated guide to tyre safety for motorists, comprising ten digitally-animated steps. The guide can be accessed at the not-for-profit organisation’s website.

Recent independent research conducted by a leading tyre manufacturer and TyreSafe members revealed that almost 80 per cent of cars on British roads are running with incorrect tyre pressures and 90 per cent of UK drivers do not know the correct pressure of their tyres. With this in mind, TyreSafe has added the visual guide to its website in order to help motorists avoid the problems associated with poorly maintained or neglected tyres, which can include premature wear, increased stopping distances and additional fuel costs.

21st August 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Suffolk Man Charged After Blow-Out Drive

Product News

A resident of Woodbridge, Suffolk has been charged with dangerous driving after he drove along the A12 with a blown-out tyre. The damage to the road – caused by the Ford Mondeo’s screeching wheel rim – was so great that it allowed police to pursue Ashley Durrant using the trail left in the tarmac.

Durrant has been disqualified from driving for at least six months and has been released on unconditional bail following his complete cooperation. If only he’d read TyreSafe’s top tyre safety tips… (See “TyreSafe Provides Online Tyre Safety Lessons”)

21st August 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Safety Scholar Video Contest Winners Named

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Bridgestone/Firestone North American Tire has announced the winners of its second Safety Scholars video contest.

Three grand-prize winners, plus one Critics’ Choice winner, were selected from 10 finalists through an online voting process that was open to the general public. BFNAT said that more than 10,000 online votes were collected.

BFNAT said that all four winning videos will be used as public service commercials, and the winners receive a $5,000 college scholarship and a trip to the 2009 Chicago Auto Show.

The winners were:

• Danny Belkin of Rockville, Md., who warned about the dangers of behind-the-wheel cell phone use.

• Ryan Massey, 18, from Laguna Niguel, Calif., used a first-person accident account as the basis for his seat-belt use video.

• Sarah Wilson of Tampa featured a group of teenagers recounting a collision they were involved in as a result of text messaging while driving.

• Critics’ Choice award was given to Angela Roscioli, 17, of Bethlehem, Pa., who contemplated the impact a collision near her home would affect the family of a young woman who was killed. (Tire Review/Akron)

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20th August 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

UK Batteries Launches Online Ordering System

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UK Batteries has launched an online ordering service. As well as browsing the online product catalogue and ordering stock for delivery, the new system means customers can also access a real time invoicing facility and a product fitment guide.

After receiving a bespoke username and password from staff at the company’s Manchester headquarters, customers can log onto the www.ukbatteries.co.uk or www.platinumbatteries.com websites and access their own personal ordering portal.

15th August 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

Net-A-Tyre: The UK’s Latest Online Tyre Company

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Net-A-Tyre (www.netatyre.co.uk) is the UK’s newest online tyre company, established in Scotland by independent garage group D&G Autocare. www.netatyre.co.uk offers customers the chance to buy tyres online and have them fitted where they want at one of the company’s UK wide network of independent fitting agents. No details of exactly how many fitting agents the company has were given in the launch statement. However, Net-A-Tyre did state that it is actively seeking to expand its network.

Net-A-Tyre Manager Stuart Burns: “There are many advantages to becoming a Net-A-Tyre agent, namely that we can generate traffic into the garages who perhaps do not use their services at the moment or have not known about their locations. This will give those garages the chance to turn these new customers into regular visitors. And if there is extra work required in the vehicles outside of their new tyres being fitted, the garages are free to sell that additional work to the customer, which will boost their revenue.”

12th August 2008/by Tyrepress Editors

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