Reliable tyre and stud wear testing requires precise and controlled methods, rotation of cars, tyres and drivers, and a range of monitoring in logging.

Wear tests are most often carried out in a convoy formation and tailored to customers’ needs, ranging from tens of thousands of kilometres of main road driving to accelerated city driving simulation, which is a quick way of establishing stud retention.

Testing on ice and snow requires special expertise, because even the slightest change in the conditions produces variation and unreliability in the results. The uniform quality of test tracks is an absolute prerequisite for reliable results. Equally vital is knowing how to take measurements, having skilled test drivers and performing appropriate statistical processing of the results to rectify the systematic differences caused by changes in the conditions.

Test World’s speciality is testing in set conditions – at specific temperatures or on specific surfaces, whether they are smooth ice, ice of different grades of roughness, or snow of specific hardness. It can also conduct tests in deep snow.

Slush planing is the most hazardous road driving condition. The test method that Test World has developed allows it to reliably measure the traction of tyres in slush.

Test World’s services include all standard tests on dry and wet asphalt – for both winter and summer tyres. Its location in the north also allows it to test winter tyres on wet and dry surfaces in the summer, at cool temperatures that suit winter tyres.

The services also include grip and handling tests performed by experienced and professional test drivers and engineers.

The test selection is wide, including all the essential winter and summer tyre tests that the industry R&D and magazines employ. Apart from the measurement technology, Test World provides professional and experienced personnel, including measurement engineers and drivers for the handling tests.

A test project can be composed of a variety of individual tests such as: