Maintaining Your Tires Keeps Your Car Healthy
We often ignore our tires unless they're flat. But they play a vital role in the overall condition of your car. Maintain them properly, and you'll save money on repairs and on fuel costs.Keeping your tires properly inflated ensures that they wear longer and can prevent accidents. Your car likely has a card or sticker attached to the door edge or the inside of the glove box door. The right amount of air your tires need is specified here.
In case your car doesn't have this sticker, you can check your owner's manual.Serious accidents can happen if your tires are under-inflated or overloaded. One of my tires blew-out on me and caused an accident. Luckily I was on a little traveled country road and was going slowly. I hate to think of what might have happened if I had been in major traffic.Buy your own quality tire gauge. You can't tell if tires are inflated properly just by looking.
And the air meters at your service station may not be correct!Ask your auto supply dealer for a tire gauge calibrated up to 80 PSI. They'll know what you mean, even if you don't.Take a moment at the beginning of each month to check your tire pressure (don't forget the spare! Uhm, you do have a spare tire, don't you??) Check them before you get in the car to drive. Write down the actual under-inflation amount for each tire. Take this info with you to the service station.Now measure the inflation again and record these numbers. (Don't worry, this only takes a couple minutes.) Now inflate the tires to a level that equals the warm pressure (that you just took) plus the first under-inflation amount.
(called the "cold" inflation pressure)If the above instructions sound intimidating or confusing, take your car to a shop and give them the "cold" pressure numbers. They'll put the correct amount of air in your tires for a minimum fee ? sometimes they'll not charge you at all.The leading cause of tire failure is under-inflation. So make a habit to check them once a month.Overloading your vehicle can lead to tire failure, too. Just because you have a pick-up truck doesn't mean it can carry an infinite load.Schedule a tire check into your calendar each month and you'll save money, save fuel, and perhaps, even save your family from a car accident..
Terry LoweryThis article courtesy of http://www.mustang-owners-guide.com.support@arundel.netOffroad Tires - Getting Dirty With Style
What to do with the inherent urge you feel every time you quick spot an opening in the brush, in a trail that may or may not lead to an off road utopia?
What do you think you should do, you Nancy, slam the brakes, twist the wheel, apologize to whomever is sitting next to you for the fact that they will not be making it to their intended, particular destination at that moment and tear off road and into the liberation of street sign-free good times.
Well, wait, hold on for a moment.
While it's true that I do think that, for the most part you should do that, there may be a thing or two slightly over-impulsive to that off roading call to arms.
First off, really you should drop your passenger off and let them walk to their destination (we are members of decent society after all).
But, more importantly, consider if you truck is ready for the offroad.
One of the biggest considerations here will be what your tires are...
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A Guide To Discount Tires
Worn tires compromise an automobile's safety, traction, and gas mileage. Buying new tires is intimidating due to the cost; thus a number of car owners replace worn tires with discount tires. Discount tires may be bought from the original dealership, warehouse stores, or the automobile section at a department store.
When purchasing discount tires, a car owner must be aware of the manufacturer's name, model year, and model name of the vehicle. That is generally all a tire store needs to know to fit correct tires on the vehicle.
It helps to be aware of the size and rating of the tires. If the discount tires are pre-owned, a car owner must make certain that the tread is of adequate depth for gripping the road, that there is uniform wear across the tire, and that there are no bands breaking through the tire.
It is imperative that, even under budget constraints, a car owner does not purchase tires that have a lower speed index or load rating than the original...
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Does dynamometer testing damage the car?
There is no actual proof that dynamometer testing might damage the car in any certain way.
While performing tests, dynos don’t interfere with the engines performance and more importantly, don’t do any damage to it.
The things that damage engines are over-revving (above the engines red line), excessive heating, shock loading or incorrect fuel or ignition settings.
Therefore, if the dynamometer does cause any damage to an engine, it would also have happened if you just drove it at the same RPM or speed on the road too!
In fact, all these things are far more likely to happen while driving on the road than when under controlled and monitored conditions on the dynamometer during testing.
You should always make sure that the operator knows what he is doing, and that the dynamometers cooling fans are large enough.
A 60 centimeter diameter fan that you can talk over is appropriate for a single...
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Mastercraft Tires - Driving With Styile
The contributions of the American company on the landscape of the United States in its history and contemporary makeup have an absolutely wide varied place its difficult to comprehend at times.
Without question, though, a contribution that certainly went beyond the community development and needed product provider that is so commonly connected with various companies, was that if plant usage in the World War II effort made by so many companies.
Such was the case with the future producers of the Mastercraft Tire when the hard goods point of their production facilities was transformed into a production plant for such items as: pontoons, landing boats and other military goods in 1941.
Its probably little more than an interesting anecdote to today's consumers of Mastercraft Tires, but it seems to set a reasonable precedence for a company that has seemingly continued to give to its country of origin.
The makers of Mastercraft Tires, the Cooper Tire...
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A Guide To Discount Tires
Worn tires compromise an automobile's safety, traction, and gas mileage. Buying new tires is intimidating due to the cost; thus a number of car owners replace worn tires with discount tires. Discount tires may be bought from the original dealership, warehouse stores, or the automobile section at a department store.
When purchasing discount tires, a car owner must be aware of the manufacturer's name, model year, and model name of the vehicle. That is generally all a tire store needs to know to fit correct tires on the vehicle.
It helps to be aware of the size and rating of the tires. If the discount tires are pre-owned, a car owner must make certain that the tread is of adequate depth for gripping the road, that there is uniform wear across the tire, and that there are no bands breaking through the tire.
It is imperative that, even under budget constraints, a car owner does not purchase tires that have a lower speed index or load rating than the original...
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