How To Know If A Car Needs New Tires

How To Know If A Car Needs New Tires

Ever wonder when to replace your worn car tires? The efficiency of your car tires is critical to the safety, performance and efficiency of your vehicle. The majority of tires are designed to make similar performance right through their lives. However, someday they start to lose performance when it comes to their traction and braking functionality.

The tread on your tires must not fall below 1/16 of an inch (1.6 millimeters) in depth. As long as you usually drive on slick, wet roads, you'd be even better off with twice that much. You should purchase a gauge to figure the tread depth the way the pros perform.

Insert a penny head first into quite a few tread grooves across the tire. If you continuously see the top of Lincoln's head, your treads are shallow and worn. If perhaps this is the situation, your tires have to be replaced. If part of Lincoln's head is constantly covered by the tread, you have more than 2/32 of an inch of tread depth remaining.

Tread depth isn’t the only issue to consider when replacing your tyres. Tyres carry moisture and oils that help in keeping them supple and assist in dispersing heat. As a tyre ages is loses it’s firmness as the oils evaporate out. In fact a tyre is required to be replaced after 5 years although it still has sufficient tread depth.

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