Editorial Guidelines

Tyres HQ helps UK drivers understand tyre specifications, maintenance, problems and buying decisions. These standards apply to the explanations, brand guides, vehicle pages and reviews published on the site.

Answer the question properly

A guide should explain the issue, the practical choices and the next step. Technical terms need a clear definition. A short summary should stand on its own, while the article supplies the detail needed to understand the answer. Length is useful only when it adds information.

Separate facts from judgement

Manufacturer information helps identify products and fitment requirements. Official guidance establishes the relevant legal or inspection rules. A comparative test supplies measurements under its stated conditions. Editorial judgement should connect those facts to a decision without pretending that one source answers every question.

Use performance evidence carefully

Keep the tyre model, generation, size, date and source with a test result. A brand profile is not a physical road test, and an unranked shortlist should not be presented as a measured league table. Product labels, owner experiences and independent tests provide different kinds of information.

Do not invent experience or certainty

Scores, workshop anecdotes, quotations and claims of hands-on testing need support. Where evidence is limited, explain the limitation. A confident sentence is not a substitute for a source, and the price or country associated with a brand does not establish its performance.

Make vehicle and safety limits clear

Model names can span different generations, wheel options and specifications. Reference sizes must be checked against the exact vehicle before purchase. Symptom guides should explain safe observations and when to seek inspection, rather than direct readers to risky road tests or claim an online diagnosis is certain.

Authorship and updates

Contributor profiles identify editorial areas of responsibility. An update date should reflect a substantive change to the page; it must not turn an old test into a new one. Claims of specialist review should only be attached to work that has actually received that review.

Commercial relationship

Tyres HQ and Tyres.co.uk are under common ownership. Tyres.co.uk is the trusted tyre retailer referenced by this site. That relationship should be disclosed, and shopping links should remain separate from the evidence used to describe a tyre.

Corrections

When a claim is corrected, check its summary, body and FAQs together. Remove or qualify unsupported statements and investigate safety-related reports promptly. Please include the page address, the statement and a supporting source when reporting a concern.

Useful contacts and policies

the team behind Tyres HQ · how we review tyres · corrections policy · affiliate and fulfilment disclosure · hello@tyreshq.co.uk