Do High End Run Free Tires Make Sense ?

While the song "On top of "Old Baldy" may well be a catch tune its not necessarily the best nor safest place for the vehicle in which you are driving in traffic. It's your family's safety that matters in a pinch, as well as to the other motorists and pedestrians that we encounter on our travels and road trips on the highways, freeways and streets that we all travel on a regular and ongoing basis.

Yet most of us take our simple tires for granted. After all tires were made to roll. What maintenance do they require other than simple checks of tire pressures from time to time - if ever? Yet what do safety and car insurance collision experts recommend and suggest when it comes to automotive tires . their maintenance and care ? While it can be said that is true that in 2013 , there is less availability of local garages and shops as well as more highly trained auto & truck dealershipservice center staff. It's easy to ask for a tire pressure gauge at a local tire shop. At the worst tip the kid a buck or two. You can alternatively purchase an inexpensive tire pressure gauge at your local big box store. Heck there are even now electronic tire pressure gauges that almost do the whole reading procedure for you in a snap, most conveniently as well as accurately.

It can be said in a simplified form and format that a tire and its rim form a compartment containing air under high pressure. Overall experts note that the atmosphere in a tire carry generally between 90 and 95 % of any said vehicle's weight. This could be any of the following automotive products - cars, trucks, SUV's, truck buses etc. Interestingly the rest of the remaining weight is carried by the internal workings and structure of the tire itself - be it the rubber or steel belts of steel belted radial tires or older fiberglass belted tires.

Overall tires work transmitting the auto's engine power itself to the roadway, cushion the vehicle against impacts, steer the car, truck or SUV, and lastly provide traction and braking stability. No doubt about it. Your life and safety as well as that of your family and other passengers depends on you as the senior motorist and vehicle owner checking regularly for early signs of rubber wear and tear.

Lastly what about the case of a family vehicle, or a set of vehicle in a family or even business situation. Should you leave tire safety and inspection to the other parties? To the wind so to speak. In the case of spouses and kids - take it as a personal responsibility to conduct regular and spot inspections. It's a matter of personal care. Even if the inspections have been attended to, it never hurts to check yet again. In the case of "fleet vehicles" or company cars - it is often amazement to many in the tech support service field that not only are routine maintenance often not thought of or even ignored. Many either "don't consider it their job" or even take great pride in how much and for how long they can ignore a vehicle and even run it into the ground. Indeed at one auto dealership a sign was conspicuously displayed in its auto service area of the misconceptions of company and fleet vehicles and their maintenance. Number one on the list was that "Company cars never need their oil changed - ever"