Tires and the rubber tires on your car. Remarkably they may seem like nothing more than rubber or round pieces of artificial rubber with steel support on your wheel rims, yet these rolling circles that touch the road are one of the most complex , and yet taken for granted items on your car , truck or other form of vehicle.
Yet next to the braking system on your automobile little else is as important when it comes to safety and safety devices as the tires which come into contact with the pavement. We may think that with all of our high tech sensors and anti lock ABS braking systems that tires simply do not matter. Yet consider this. The ABS system on most cars is a most primitive simple electronic device. Most use no more than 8 k of computer memory basically less than a millionth of what any computer uses as its electronic memory - its ram. Do you think that this primitive device - ABS electronic braking systems are going to make up for zero contact and friction on the road from used up or plain useless tires which offer zero friction. Never mind that your emergency stopping situation may be occurring during a rain or snow storm or the Canada # 1 highway on the perimeter around Winnipeg - with a collision between your truck and a semi trailer hurtling to its yard ,dead-heading it back to its depot - all in the dead of night time.
What warning signs should you check or watch out for when trying to assess tire tread life and the residual amount remaining? One trick is to note and take advantage of the built in tread wear indicators that are a basic safety feature of most modern new tires out there on the automotive market and auto aftermarket. What to watch for in routine inspections? A series of smooth horizontal wear bars will appear on worn tires. These are setup by the tire manufactures and makers to be a readily apparent tire safety warning. A series of smooth horizontal wear bars will appear across the surface and surfaces of your tires when the tire surface tread depth reaches the dangerous if not critical level and levels. Overall it's fairly simple just to take a quick glance for these bare spots when filling up your car - either at a full service gas station alongside your vehicle while you are waiting, or at a self service gasoline fueling station.
One tip to automobile owners in this day and age of product recalls is to register your new tires. It used to be that the law required all tire sellers to submit the name of purchasers and owners to the manufacturer for contact from the tire maker or distributor if needed or necessary. However in 2010 this is seldom the case and is no longer required for independent tire dealers.
Lastly what about the case of a family vehicle, or a set of vehicle in a family or even business situation. Should you leave tire safety and inspection to the other parties? To the wind so to speak. In the case of spouses and kids - take it as a personal responsibility to conduct regular and spot inspections. It's a matter of personal care. Even if the inspections have been attended to, it never hurts to check yet again. In the case of "fleet vehicles" or company cars - it is often amazement to many in the tech support service field that not only are routine maintenance often not thought of or even ignored. Many either "don't consider it their job" or even take great pride in how much and for how long they can ignore a vehicle and even run it into the ground. Indeed at one auto dealership a sign was conspicuously displayed in its auto service area of the misconceptions of company and fleet vehicles and their maintenance. Number one on the list was that "Company cars never need their oil changed - ever"
Yet next to the braking system on your automobile little else is as important when it comes to safety and safety devices as the tires which come into contact with the pavement. We may think that with all of our high tech sensors and anti lock ABS braking systems that tires simply do not matter. Yet consider this. The ABS system on most cars is a most primitive simple electronic device. Most use no more than 8 k of computer memory basically less than a millionth of what any computer uses as its electronic memory - its ram. Do you think that this primitive device - ABS electronic braking systems are going to make up for zero contact and friction on the road from used up or plain useless tires which offer zero friction. Never mind that your emergency stopping situation may be occurring during a rain or snow storm or the Canada # 1 highway on the perimeter around Winnipeg - with a collision between your truck and a semi trailer hurtling to its yard ,dead-heading it back to its depot - all in the dead of night time.
What warning signs should you check or watch out for when trying to assess tire tread life and the residual amount remaining? One trick is to note and take advantage of the built in tread wear indicators that are a basic safety feature of most modern new tires out there on the automotive market and auto aftermarket. What to watch for in routine inspections? A series of smooth horizontal wear bars will appear on worn tires. These are setup by the tire manufactures and makers to be a readily apparent tire safety warning. A series of smooth horizontal wear bars will appear across the surface and surfaces of your tires when the tire surface tread depth reaches the dangerous if not critical level and levels. Overall it's fairly simple just to take a quick glance for these bare spots when filling up your car - either at a full service gas station alongside your vehicle while you are waiting, or at a self service gasoline fueling station.
One tip to automobile owners in this day and age of product recalls is to register your new tires. It used to be that the law required all tire sellers to submit the name of purchasers and owners to the manufacturer for contact from the tire maker or distributor if needed or necessary. However in 2010 this is seldom the case and is no longer required for independent tire dealers.
Lastly what about the case of a family vehicle, or a set of vehicle in a family or even business situation. Should you leave tire safety and inspection to the other parties? To the wind so to speak. In the case of spouses and kids - take it as a personal responsibility to conduct regular and spot inspections. It's a matter of personal care. Even if the inspections have been attended to, it never hurts to check yet again. In the case of "fleet vehicles" or company cars - it is often amazement to many in the tech support service field that not only are routine maintenance often not thought of or even ignored. Many either "don't consider it their job" or even take great pride in how much and for how long they can ignore a vehicle and even run it into the ground. Indeed at one auto dealership a sign was conspicuously displayed in its auto service area of the misconceptions of company and fleet vehicles and their maintenance. Number one on the list was that "Company cars never need their oil changed - ever"
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Tire rotation or rotating rubber wheels on which your truck,car or other auto rolls is the practice of moving truck. car .min-van or SUV wheels and rubber wheels on which your truck,car or other auto rolls from one position on the car, to another, to ensure even tire wear. Tire wear is uneven for any number of reasons. Even tire wear is desirable to maintain consistent performance in the vehicle and toextend the overall life of any sets of of rubber wheels on which your truck,car or other auto rolls.
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