Tips To Know If A Car Really needs New Tires

Tips To Know If A Car Really needs New Tires

Ever wonder when to replace your worn car tires? The behavior of your car tires is important to the safety, performance and efficiency of your vehicle. Many tires are designed to provide similar performance all through their lives. However, at one time or another they start to lose performance when considering their traction and braking functionality.

The tread on your tires never should slide below 1/16 of an inch (1.6 millimeters) in depth. As long as you constantly drive on slick, wet land, you'd be even better off with twice that much. You should buy a gauge to check the tread depth the way the experts use.

Set a penny head first into a couple of tread grooves across the tire. If you continually see the top of Lincoln's head, your treads are shallow and worn. Assuming this is the case, your tires should be replaced. If part of Lincoln's head remains covered by the tread, you have got over 2/32 of an inch of tread depth remaining.

Tread depth isn’t the only area to consider when replacing your tyres. Tyres normally include moisture and oils that will keep them supple and assist in dispersing heat. As a tyre ages is loses it’s suppleness as the oils evaporate out. In general a tyre must be replaced after 5 years regardless if it still has great tread depth.

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