“DO NOT USE THE TOE.”

Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 308, 3 October 1929, Page 7

“DO NOT USE THE TOE.”

A CHECK ON TYRES. , s How to Save Money. There is only one way to check up on tyre pressure, and that is not by kicking the tyre with a judicial toe. Four minutes with a tyre gauge once a week will add about one quarter to the mileage of tyres, according to the test just cited. If a motorist uses eight casings a year he should have the price of two tyres by this simple precaution. Last year tyre manufacturers in the United States made nearly 60,000,000 casings, valued at retail more than £200,000,000. Since tests show variations in’tyre mileages as high as 40 per cent, the needless waste can be conservatively estimated at millions of pounds. Observance by all drivers of a few simple rules of tyre care would reduce the waste to a minimum. Paradoxically, the more the car is improved the harder it seems to be on tyres. Four-wheel brakes now stop a car at twice the speed in half the time required a few years ago.

I ! Unfortunately, if habitually put on I high speed these brakes will wear i out tyres far faster and four times as soon. Poor brakes conversely burn up tyres. Unevenly-adjusted brakes are another cause of waste. And (says rm authority) experts declare that 1 nine out of ten cars are habitually run with brakes unevenly adjusted. Increased speed tears down tyres, too, but as the number of cars in use increases traffic must speeded up. Slowing down and .topping remain : about constant, which is fortunate, j for tests have shown that a car J driven at 35 miles an hour and stopped every quarter of a mile will | wear away the tread design on a j casing in about 100 miles, where one j quarter as many stops will not have the same effect in less than 30 times the distance, or 3000 miles.