DON’T ALWAYS BLAME TYRES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 325, 10 April 1928, Page 6

DON’T ALWAYS BLAME TYRES

REASONS FOR LESS MILE-AGE Balloon tyres do not seem to give as long mileage now as they did when they were first introduced.” This is a remark heard more or less frequently among motorists. Appar- ■ day balloon tyres are not as good as those made two or three years ago, -tatcs a tyre expert in the "Goodyear News'’ And we strike at the very heart • ' a condition in dire need of remedy —a condition based upon public mis- • nception and in direct conflict with •he actual facts in the case—for it is the fact that tyre manufacturers today are making the best tyres they jve ever made, and the best tyres they know how to make. Steady improvement has been, and is being, made in the art of tyre ouiiding, and n their several price classes lyres in general are of better quality to-day than ever before. It also is true, paradoxical as it may sound, that even though better balloon tyres are being made to-day than were made two and three years ago, the tyres of to-day do not appear to be giving as much mileage. When motorists find they are not getting as much mileage as they had expected it is perhaps logical that they first blume the condition on the tyres. Few, if any, of them stop to consider th at changing conditions under which tyres are run may be the reasons for the reduced mileage. Here are the conditions directly responsible in cases where balloon tyres appear not tc be giving as much mileage to-day as did the balloon tyres of yesterday: 3. Smaller diameter tyres. 2. Higher motoring six- d. 3. Quicker acceleration of cars. 4. Quicker stopping. 5. Under-inflation.