Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-03-09 | Page 37 | First Tire Lesson by the A.M. Daly Co.

FIRST TIRE LESSON - BHTTKE JLHLDALY CO. A. JI. Daly, tiro and accessory dealer deal-er at South State and Exchange placo, in pursuance of the policy adopted by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber company, is giving.out lessons on tire . cohscrvar tiou which all car owners should read and -preserve. Bumping into curbs, hitting bumps in the road, turning out into gutters, and similar strains, shocks and jolts are vory likely to throw a wheel of your car out of alignment; it then travels with the skidding action which wears down treads very rapidly, even if tho misalignment is so slight that the eye can hardly detect it. You should, therefore, there-fore, test your wheels frequently, to make sure that they are in proper alignment. Probably as many as one car iu thrco has one or more misaligned mis-aligned wheels that are robbing their tires of thousands of miles. Wheels out of line cause tho tread to wear rapidly because they greatly increaso friction with the road. In properly prop-erly aligned wheels thero is only, one source of wearing friction the grip of the tread on the road. In misaligned wheels there is an additional source the grinding of the road at an angle to the wheel. This friction wears down the tread precisely as if it were beiug held against a grindstone. It takes place even if a wheel is only half an inch out of line. Because of tho turn-tO'the-right rule of the road, and also because the position po-sition of tho driver naturally makes him favor the left, side, tho ri(iht front wheel is more often out of line than any other. Test your wheels frequently for misalignment. mis-alignment. Never fail to do it after 3'our car has suffered bumps and jolts. Do it also whenever any one of your tires seems to show undue tread wear. Since the testing of wheels for alignment align-ment is very simple and easily done, many careful car owners are protectiag themselves by' having it done, or doing do-ing it themselves, every two weeks.