A SOURCE OF TROUBLE

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3445, 6 September 1926, Page 9

A SOURCE OF TROUBLE

The most prolific cause of beadededge tyres leaving their rims is due to some reduction of inflation pressure below a critical point, due perhaps, to puncture, or some accidental leak which is taking place unknown to tho user, but there are other possible causes, usually requiring special examination of tyre and rim to determine them.

Tho procedure of keeping tyres properly inflated is so simple and takes such little tinie that it would be a very poor motorist who would not undertake it. especially if he i will realise that there is a considerable dividend in it. Tho owner should provide himself with a pressure gauge and set aside 13 minutes each week for dealing with the tyre equipment. Test the pressure in the tyres, and pump up to the correct pressure. If on subsequent weekly examinations, the pressure has dropped slightly, as it probably will have done, restore it by the necessary few strokes of tho pump. This, when done regularly and carefully, is the main secret of successful tyre use, and by its moans tho motorist will, barring accidents, rid himself of 90 per cent, of the tyre difficulties which carelessness or inattention invite. It really amounts to this—the inflation pressure must havo attention and the motorist can choose whether he will give that attention at leisure and in comfort under his own conditions, or give it while he is compelled to by tyro failure on the road, perhaps in circumstances involving discomfort, annoyance and added expense. A pneumatic tyre consists of a correct quantity of compressed air, an inner tube and an outer cover. The two latter parts are correctly made and offered by the tyre manufacturer, but tho supply of the ’first part is a very small duty of the user.