How To Maintain Your Tyres’ Long Life

Check Your Tyre Pressure Frequently

Don’t depend on the stuff at the gas station these days. Half the time, they don’t work and even when they do work, they often give you the wrong pressure. Especially when you are going on vacation on rental cars. Usually they put much low air pressure than recommended for the vehicle.

Because in this self-serving age, be ready to serve yourself. Prepare yourself with a little pump in the trunk and a good gauge that you can just stick in the glove box.

When you do check the tire pressure, do it first thing in the morning when it’s cold. Because, when you drive down the road, then touch your tires after you take a trip. The get pretty warm, and that increases the pressure and you get a false reading. You want to do it when the tires are cold, first thing in the morning.

Another reason you want a good gauge and a pump yourself, is because by the time you drive to a gas station, the tires have already heated up and you’ll get a false high reading.

Don’t Let Tyres Sit Idle

Now the next thing to do to make your tires last as long as possible is to drive them quite a bit. It sounds a bit odd, but if you don’t use the tires, they sit and they dry rot. Even if you are planning to buy tyres uae, that are brand new, make sure to use them as soon as possible. If you got older tires on your car around 5–7 years or older and you see a bunch of cracks on them, then it’s time for new tires. They are not safe anymore; they do rot when you don’t use them. So, in the case of “if you don’t use it, you lose it”, that’s really true about tires.

Be sure to check used or new tyres when you buy them. Chances are, that even though, they might have 90% of tread on them. You can check that with a tire gauge too. But they probably have cracks and holes on them for being rotted out as they were sitting idle, and not being used for a long time.

So. in the case of tires, you are better off using them all the time. Don’t save them up because if you don’t use them much, they are going to dry rot anyways. Eventually, you are going to have to get new tires.

Usually with averagely-used cars, you still end up replacing tyre even with 60–70% of the tread left. Because they all start cracking at an early stage.

But, here’s a warning: if you think you are going to stop the cracks, people will put that tire dressing on to make them look shinny and stuff. It really doesn’t fix your problem at all. Because the tread itself, the part you are driving

on, that’s still going to crack. So, you can’t spray all that stuff on the tread because if you do, that stuff is really slippery and it will make your tires dangerous.

Especially when you are driving a motorcycle, the tread goes a long way to the side. And while you are driving, and you get it far on the side, and then corner it, it will start to slide making you lose the whole vehicle out of balance.

Covering Your Tyres Doesn’t Do Much

Many cars have pretty wide treads on them these days. You don’t want to put that tire dressing on them and make them slippery. They are not going to handle as well or even brake as well if you get some on the tread itself. So, although spraying that stuff on the tires makes them look shinny and everything. It doesn’t make them last longer. It actually makes them slightly more dangerous, if you are a fast driver and corner quickly.

So now you know some hacks to keeping your tires lasting as long as possible. Stuff you can do yourself.

Tires aren’t cheap and you want them to last as long as they possibly can. So, you know how to do it yourself!