A Fleet of Nokian Winter Tyres for Witherbys' Employees in Edinburgh

Witherbys, the oldest maritime publishing company in the world, approved us in regard to changing their employees tyres from summers to winters as they were looking for someone with the convenience of going out to their main office instead of their employees going out to a fixed site and waiting around.

With nearly forty cars in their fleet, it was quite a challenge to tackle, but it was no match for the man from the North! Most vehicles already had their winter tyres in storage however, some needed new tyres. Both myself and Iain (the CEO of Witherbys) swayed towards getting the best winter tyres on the market; Nokain. In addition to meeting Iain, we met the other Iain (project and services manager) who organised the whole event.

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Especially up here in Scotland, it's best to swap your summer tyres to winters during the seasonal change as it provides more traction to the road at temperatures below 7 °C, in addition, Nokian tyres have great capability in the snow due to their unique tread pattern. As to be expected, as the company originated in Finland!

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After finalising some details with the company, we started booking the employees in through the middle of the week, leaving both Monday and Friday open to the rest of our customers. Overall, we spent around two and a half weeks changing over the tyres for Witherbys employees, although for Hometyre Edinburgh this was just another day's work!

We only hit one small issue during the days in Livingston, the battery did die because we weren't moving about as much… (a quick jump-start later got us back to full strength!).

Just like our domestic customers, businesses are starting to book in for their tyres to be swapped from Summer to Winter tyres.

Everyone at the company were looking at changing their tyres over including the owner, Iain MacNeil with his Range Rover Sport. But some people couldn't make it to the office such as this lady with her Volkswagen UP! As she was on maternity leave, we popped over to her house and changed the tyres on the drive.

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