Protyre News

I am a very proud dad.  My son plays centre forward for his school Under 10’s team and he is a great footballer – at least that is what I keep telling everyone in protyre autocare who will listen.  But something changed last week.  Last weekend my son’s team won the Portsmouth Schools Year 5 Cup!  Suddenly rather than me having to tell everyone how good he was, here was hard evidence that what I had been saying was true – he’d won his first piece of silverware!  That makes me an even prouder dad.

In a strange way, the same is true for my role at protyre autocare.  For the last 9 years I have been responsible for our website – protyre.co.uk.  Every day I have waxed lyrical on how good it is, and how buying tyres and booking your MOT online is the way to go.  Increasingly people have listened to me and given it a go, but unless you have tried it for yourself, it really has been a case of asking people to believe me, with very little to back that up.

Then last month, something changed.  I won my own Cup Final – our website won an award.  And not just any award.  protyre autocare was awarded – by a panel of independent judges – the best B2C Website of the Year.  This is simply incredible.  A group of people – that I almost certainly do not know – had looked at the work that my team and I have done, and judged the protyre.co.uk website the best consumer website – in the whole country!  Here was hard proof – silverware – to back up my claims.

And when I look at what the judges said, I felt truly vindicated – and proud:

“…the protyre autocare website is based on a well thought-out strategy… the implementation of its latest upgrade has clearly impacted the brand’s online performance… a project that was well integrated with other teams within the business, delivering impressive results in a tough industry…”

But what does this mean to our customers – as they are the real judges here.  Well:

• protyre.co.uk allows you to book an MOT, service and tyres quickly and at the best price

• if you enter your licence plate into the website, it will recommend the correct products for your vehicle and advise you if you have an upcoming MOT – both invaluable as selecting tyres can be confusing and with an MOT being an annual purchase, the date it is due is easily forgotten

• our website carries over 13,000 different products – each quickly searched using the very latest technology and algorithms to find the right product for you

• our site works just as well on mobile phones as it does on desktop computers

• as one of the leading autocare providers in the UK, we have strong commercial relationships with all the tyre manufacturers and vehicle parts providers, ensuring that we secure the very best prices that we pass on to our customers

• most products are backed up with reviews from independent experts, with modern imagery – often with videos – supported by articles providing advice and assistance on everything from measuring the tyre depth on your tyres, or what to consider when booking your vehicle in for a service

• we offer a range of payment options, including the ability to spread the cost with Klarna

• with a full diary system that links to all of our 184 autocare centres, you can select a date and a time for your MOT, service or have tyres fitted, that is convenient to you

• the whole site is supported by the very latest technology and security, so you can be confident that any data you enter is safe, and the website is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

So, what should you do now?  We are all living in the digital age, so when you next need anything for your motor vehicle – a new tyre, an MOT, a service or even topping up your air conditioning – make www.protyre.co.uk your first port of call.  I am incredibly proud of what our website can do for you – winning this award is evidence that I am not bias in that thinking.  Nothing would make me prouder than you trying it out too.