Donnelly & Taggart take charge with their with new Tyre and Battery Centre in Ballymena

While most tyre fitting business tend to stock between 200 and 300 tyres Donnelly Group keep over 1000 tyres in stock.

This modern facility has the capacity to stock 5000 tyres, comprising the most popular brands and patterns to meet local market needs as well as all the major brands plus value brands. We also supply winter tyres, carry out tyre repairs, fitting, balancing and wheel alignment.

Opened in January on the Antrim road, just off the Seven Towers roundabout our tyre and battery centres incorporate state-of-the-art technology including computerised four-wheel alignment system, midtronics battery tester, tyre pressure monitoring system (TPMS) and Nitrogen Inflation.

Relatively new to N.Ireland is the process of filling your car tyres with Nitrogen rather than air. Manufacturers like Nissan recommend that Nitrogen is used in their GT-R supercars and it’s been used for years in Formula 1, NASCAR, the American military and planes, even the Space Shuttle uses nitrogen.

The benefits from using nitrogen are pretty amazing. Nitrogen has larger molecules than air so it doesn’t seep out through the walls of your tyres as quickly as air so your tyres stay inflated for longer. It also dissipates heat faster than air, heat cause rolling resistance, Nitrogen reduces this heat and will aid with fuel economy. With your tyres running cooler there is less chance of tyre failure so they will last longer too.

At Donnelly’s we wouldn’t recommend a product if we didn’t use it ourselves and currently we run about 900 of our vehicles with Nitrogen in our tyres.