The Important Functions of Tires and Why Is It Important To Maintain The Tires Of Your Car
Tire maintenance is an often overlooked aspect of car safety as car owners often focus on various exterior aspects and functionality of the car such as waxing and grooming, car engine & radiator system etc. The importance of properly maintaining your car tires cannot be overemphasized as tires are the only contacts between your car and the ground surface. Any damage done to the tires could result in unstable handling and potentially dangerous especially when the vehicle is going at high speed. There are 4 major functions of tires and they are as follows:
* To support the weight of your vehicle – a average car weighs between 1.4 to 1.8 tons which is equivalent to the weight of about 30 people. The air and the build up pressure in your tire play the important role of supporting the weight of the car plus the driver and passengers on board.
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Selecting Car Tires and Understanding Tread Characteristics
This article sets out to explain the characteristics of automobile tire tread patterns. Four elements make up any tires tread pattern; grooves, lugs, voids and sipes. Lugs are the portion of the tire that contact the road and provide traction.
The area of the tire contacting the road surface is referred to as the ‘footprint’. Grooves run in rings around the circumference of the tires, which allows water to be pushed away from the footprint, increasing wet traction. Voids allow the lugs to move around when entering and exiting the footprint. Sipes are grooves cutting across the tire that allow water to move out of the grooves and away from the footprint.
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Replace Car Tires With Better Ones
When you replace car tires, make sure you do so with better ones. This guide will help you choose the best tires for your vehicle when a replacement is needed.
The tire size can be located on the sidewall of the old tire. Before you replace car tires, you should take note of the tire and conduct some cost comparisons online. When studying the tire size, get to know what all the codes mean. P basically represents passenger tire, while LT represents light truck tire. The number after those letters represent how wide the tire is. The next number is the ratio of the width of the tire to the height of the sidewall. If you see an ”R” after those number, it just stands for radial tire. The last number represents the diameter of the wheel in inches.