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Tire Safety - Everything Rides On It Studies of tire safety show that maintaining proper tire pressure, observing tire and vehicle load limits (not carrying more weight in your vehicle than your tires or vehicle can safely handle), avoiding road hazards, and inspecting tires for cuts, slashes, and other irregularities are the most important things you can do to avoid tire failure, such as tread separation or blowout and flat tires. These actions, along with other care and maintenance activities, can also: |
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· Improve vehicle handling, · Help protect you and others from avoidable breakdowns and accidents, · Improve fuel economy, and · Increase the life of your tires. |
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Properly maintained tires improve the steering, stopping, traction, and load-carrying capability of your vehicle. Underinflated tires and overloaded vehicles are a major cause of tire failure. Therefore, as mentioned above, to avoid flat tires and other types of tire failure, you should maintain proper tire pressure, observe tire and vehicle load limits, avoid road hazards, and regularly inspect your tires. Tire inflation pressure is the level of air in the tire that provides it with load-carrying capacity. Vehicle manufacturers determine this number based on the vehicle’s design load limit (the greatest amount of weight a vehicle can safely carry) and the vehicle’s tire size. Because tires are designed to be used on more than one type of vehicle, tire manufacturers list the "maximum permissible inflation pressure" on the tire sidewall. This number is the greatest amount of air pressure that should ever be put into the tire under normal driving conditions. It is important to check your vehicle’s tire pressure at least once a month, according to NHTSA. |
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Reprinted from The Reconstructor, Newsletter of Boster, Kobayashi & Associates, Fall 2005. |
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