TESLA TOUGH ON TYRES
ANALYSIS by the UK car servicing outlet Kwik-Fit has looked at rising wear and tear on EV tyres.
With more than 600 outlets, Kwik Fit claims to fit more tyres in the UK than any other company and has found that the Tesla Model 3 tops their list for tyre issues.
The company’s analysts looked at which models were disproportionately more likely to be brought in for tyre changes than the average car in every area of Great Britain and calculated an index figure for each model.
From its Maintenance Index 2025, Kwik Fit has ranked the models by the number of locations in which they were most likely to have had tyre changes.
The Kwik Fit ranking is led by the Tesla Model 3, which topped the table in 54 areas across Britain.
This is more than twice as many as the model family in second place, the Citroen Berlingo, which comes top in 24 locations.
In third place is another Tesla, the Model Y (16 areas), followed by the Mercedes CLA (9 areas). The top six is completed by the BMW 4 series and the Volvo XC40 both with seven.
The 54 locations where the Tesla Model 3 tops the table cover a wide variety of areas, ranging from Aberdeenshire to Devon. It sees its highest score in the Kwik Fit Maintenance Index in Enfield, where it has an index figure of 9.4. In fact, across London it tops the chart in 14 out of the capital’s 32 boroughs and is in the top three places in a further seven.
The Citroen Berlingo comes top in areas from Argyll and Bute to Wiltshire, with its highest index figure of 9.2 being seen in Medway. Intriguingly, despite being top of the table in 24 areas of the UK, the model doesn’t appear in the top three in any of the London boroughs.
When all the models from each manufacturer are combined, it can be seen that five marques account for the vehicles most disproportionately needing new tyres in four fifths of the country.
Tesla and Citroen remain in first and second place in this combined data, but BMW takes the third position with a range of model families contributing to its score, namely the 2 and 4 series, as well as the X1, X3 and X5.
