CAR CLINIC | Understanding and caring for your car's tyres

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CAR CLINIC | Understanding and caring for your car's tyres
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People who go in for long-distance hikes will tell you their single most important piece of equipment is their shoes. The same applies to a long-distance car trip. Your car's tyres are crucially important for a safe and stress-free trip

Long-distance hiking enthusiasts will tell you their single most important piece of equipment is their shoes. The same applies to a long-distance car trip. Your car's tyres are crucially important for a safe and stress-free trip.

Then you should have no qualms about scrapping it. Tread separation, incidentally, happens when the glue holding the layers of the tread together breaks down, allowing pressurised air to penetrate between the layers and create a bubble on the tread.Recently the Chevrolet Spark Lite of a friend of mine suddenly developed a pronounced jerky pull to the left on the steering.

Lesson learnt from this merry dance: when a sudden change in steering behaviour occurs, first scrutinise the tyres. Make sure you run your hand over the full circumference of each tyre.Whether it occurs on the inside or outside shoulder of the tyre or in the form of a balding strip in the centre of the tread or as “cupping” or worn patches on the tread , uneven tread wear almost always means the tyre is destined for the spare wheel or the scrap pile.

It is my impression that some foreign tyres cannot cope with our high summer temperatures combined with long distances at highway speeds, and I would therefore always prefer tyres from a manufacturer with long experience of local conditions.

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