Tire care is and should be between the most important forms of vehicle maintenance for the overall health of your car and your personal safety. keeping your tires clean won’t just make them look nice, but will also prevent them from corroding.
Question 1: Why is tire care important?
Our answer:
Taking care of your car’s tires can help you in many ways. For instance, it will prevent any future costly repairs. Tire maintenance will help you extend the life of your tires and cut any cost that will incur from replacing a damaged one.
Surprisingly, maintaining your tires will help you decrease fuel costs over time. Properly inflated tires will reduce fuel consumption in your car by 3% according to Michelin website. Under inflated tires are more prone to overheating, thus needing more fuel and wearing out quicker.
Most importantly, well taken care of tires are safer, more durable and more capable of doing their job properly. Therefor, they keep you safe on the road.
Question 2: What are the most important tire care tips for long-lasting tires?
Our answer:
- Routine Inspections
- Tire Pressure
- Tires Rotation
We will answer each of these notes in the following.
What is routine inspection and how often do I need to do it?
Our answer:
What we usually tell our customers is this; one of the easiest ways to prevent future problems and costs is to routinely check your car, especially your tires. When inspecting your tires, make sure to check for general wear, punctures, and other important issues.
How do I check my tires pressure?
Our answer:
The difference between a good and a bad grip lies in properly inflated tires. Make sure to regularly check your tires pressures, especially when making long road trips. Fuel economy and turning – braking with optimal precision will become difficult and hard while talking about performance with under inflated tires. In addition, excessive friction and rapid wear out of tires are causes of under inflated tires.
You will find the recommended PSI; Pounds per Square Inch; for your tires which is usually between 30 and 35. Using an air pump, stop at agar station and fill up the tires to the recommended air pressure. If you feel uncomfortable doing that yourself, someone will be able to assist you at the gas station or stop by any garage for inspection.
What is tire rotation, what does it do and why is it important to have a rotation of my tires?
Our answer:
Usually, we try to simplify terms so that our customers are able to understand their cars needs. Rotation is the act of moving tires from one position on a vehicle to another. Usually, front tires will be moved to the rear and the rear tires to the front. Simultaneously, they could change sides as well. For example, the right front tire will end up as a left rear tire. This is what we call “the tire rotation pattern”.
Usually, in front-wheel drive vehicles, the power is set to the front axle and wheels to produce forward motion. In cases like this, naturally, the front tires will wear out faster than rear tires in comparison to. rear-wheel drive, all-wheel drive or four-wheel drive models. Your vehicle’s drivetrain will insure that no tire wears down too fast when compared to age whole set of tires.
Tire rotation has four main goals to keep. It maintains traction. A loss of tread depth due to a tire wearing out, leads to reduction in traction which interferes with one’s ability to control the vehicle in certain situations. A rotation insures that no uneven tire wear will occur, thus all tires have the same amount of tread. Second, a routine rotation prevents blowouts. Tires are prone to failure as they get worn down, which can be dangerous on certain routes and roads. Uneven wear in tires working together produce a vibration that will be felt through the steering wheel. A rotation will prevent this by improving the performance of each. In parallel, damaged tires create drag and strain the engine thus increasing the vehicle’s fuel consumption. A rotation where no uneven wear will occur will lead to maximizing efficiency.
In order to maximize the efficiency of your tires and get the most miles out of them as possible, it is important to take care of them. One way is tire rotation every several thousand miles or every other time you get oil change. In that case, you are taking care of your vehicle, getting the maximum efficiency out of your tires and saving a ton of money as tires could be pricey.
If you have any more questions in regards to your tires care, please do not hesitate to contact us on our number or directly chat with us on the website.
