TYRES KEEP RECORD

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 21 May 1932, Page 12

TYRES KEEP RECORD

MARKS OF BAD DRIVER. UNDER STANDING REQUT RED. There is no part of a ear which gives; you away quite so surely as your tyres. Each expresses how you drive, the attention you give, the care you take. If you are a driver who leaves it to the last moment before applying your brakes and who must be at the head of the column when the policeman’s hand falls, then you must expect your tjres to wear quickly. If rapid acceleration and deceleration is your only fault, this wear will be found to be evenly distributed around the tread and all four tyres will be in much the same condition. You may neglect that little weekly job of checking and correcting the tyre ■pressure. If you' do, your tyres will tell the tale; excessive wear on the tread edges with the centre worn nor mally always denotes the tyre’s biggest enemy—too little air; for you may be satisfied to dispense with a pressure gauge and judge the inflation with the toe of your shoe. "Well, if you do the results will probably be the same. Pressure cannot accurately be judged by this slipshod method, and you wil either run them too hard—in which case you will suffer discomfort and th< car will suffer from unnecessary vitro tion—or they will be too soft, with the result mentioned above. Shook; you not have the alignment o" yoiu front wheels of your steering cheeked regularly your tyres may tell you thal the front wheel “toe-in” is excessive by the outside edges of their tread

being rounded whilst the inner ones are frayed. Too little “toe-in” produces exactly the opposite result.

BUMPING AGAINST KERB

Bumping against the kerb may have bent the steering connections or altered the camber of the wheels. irregular patches of the wear around the treau indicate the former, uneven wear on each side of the tyre proves the latter, which may to some extent be combated by reversal of the wheels; the oniy real cure, however, is to have the wheels properly aligned with the am of right tools. Your tyres, too, will tell you of that brake drum which needs readjusting by- showing very- rapid wear in one or two places only, of that binding brake by premature wear evenly all round, and of incorrectly adjusted brakes by big discrepancies of wear between the four of them. Cuts and bruises are evidence of careless driving over bad roads and newly laid flints. Cracked walls tell of fast cornering on underinflated covers. Give your tyres a chance. They tell y-ou quite plainly of their troubles am. they will react astonishingly to a litat patient understanding.— 1 ‘Garagenian, in “The Tight Car.”