Road RankFuel is the cost you notice every week. Brakes, tyres and suspension are the costs that arrive as a large bill later. The same smooth-driving habits that lift your Road Rank score also make these parts last longer.
Hard braking wears brake pads and discs
Brakes turn the car’s speed into heat. The harder and later you brake, the more heat and wear. Frequent hard stops also wear brake discs unevenly, which can cause vibration.
What helps: look further ahead, lift off early and let the car slow before you brake. Read hard braking explained.
Quick starts wear tyres
Spinning or squealing tyres from a standstill scrub rubber away. Even without wheelspin, hard acceleration loads the driven tyres heavily.
What helps: pull away smoothly and build speed gradually. See how to reduce quick acceleration.
Fast cornering scrubs tyre edges
Taking bends and junctions quickly puts sideways force through the tyres, wearing the outer edges faster.
What helps: slow down before the turn and steer smoothly. Read sharp turns and smooth cornering.
Potholes and kerbs damage wheels and suspension
Hitting a pothole at speed or clipping a kerb can bend wheels, damage tyres and knock the alignment out, which then wears tyres unevenly.
What helps: look ahead, slow for poor road surfaces and park with care.
Low tyre pressure
Under-inflated tyres flex more, heat up and wear on the edges. They also increase fuel use.
What helps: check pressures monthly when the tyres are cold, using the figures for your car.
Riding the clutch
In a manual car, resting a foot on the clutch or holding the car on the clutch on hills wears it out early.
What helps: keep your foot off the clutch pedal when you are not changing gear, and use the handbrake on hills.
Track the habits, not just the bills
Your Road Rank breakdown shows hard-braking, quick-acceleration and sharp-turn counts for every drive. If those numbers trend down over a month, your brakes and tyres are almost certainly thanking you.