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Show Shabby Tires Are Not Favored for Any Car Shabby tires on a good-looking carl Yet stand on any street corner today and count the number of patched-up, dilapidated tires which are being used to the last mile. The cost of keeping these tires running for a few thousand thou-sand miles would nearly pay for new ones. Mileage such as this comes high. Tire conservation does not mean picking up a decrepit tire and putting it back Into service at a big repair cost just to save a little rubber left in the tread. It means taking care of the tire from the first so that It will he able to deliver all the mileage built Into It by the maker. When tires are so far worn that they are soon to blow, it Is poor economy to repair them. Such a course means sacrifice of the Inner tube as well. Cheap, makeshift patches, boots and temporary repairs of all kinds are now being called Into use as never before, but patching up an old casing In which separation of fabric plies has already begun, cannot give the freedom from tire trouble on which the pleasure in motoring so largely depends. |