For tire shops and services: how to keep every used tire with its own tread depth and age, store customers’ sets between seasons, handle the spring and autumn rush and remind clients when it is time to come back.
M+S (mud and snow) is a marking the manufacturer applies on its own, without a standardised winter performance test. The three-peak mountain snowflake (3PMSF, often called the Alpine symbol) means the tire passed a standardised snow traction test against a reference tire. A tire can carry both; for real winter use and in countries that require it, the snowflake is the marking that counts.
Change to winter tires when temperatures stay at around 7 °C or lower, and before the first frost or snow, not after it. In much of Central and Eastern Europe that usually means from mid-October to early November. Local law can add its own rules: Germany requires winter tires in wintry road conditions, and Austria requires them from 1 November to 15 April whenever conditions are wintry.
A tire hotel is a paid service in which a tire shop or service station stores a customer's off-season tires or complete wheels until the next change. The shop inspects the set at intake, records its condition, keeps it at a known storage place and returns it, usually fitted to the car, when the season changes.
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