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Show MOTOR MAIDtt ?Tjg Tire Troubles Are Travel Woes Br Jeanne Smith, Dodge Safety Consultant NOTHING will deflate your vacation enthusiasm more quickly than a blowout or flat tire. Besides Be-sides the hazards involved, the inconvenience and delay resulting from such mishaps can completely complete-ly disrupt a carefully planned travel itinerary. Although we women can re sort to the "helpless female" fe-male" act in such emergencies, emergen-cies, it's better and far safer saf-er to avoid the situation entirly. Studies of driving habits, Miss Smith tire engineers tell me, show that unintentional abuse is one of the main reasons for tire failure. Here are their recommendations for proper tire care and care- ' free vacationing: 1. Maintain car manufacturer's manufactur-er's recommended air-pressure at all times. Over-inflation causes excessive tread wear; under-inflation will flex and eventually break down the side-wall. side-wall. Tires should be cool when pressure is checked. 2. Don't corner at high speeds. In fact, avoid excessive speed entirely. en-tirely. Tread wear at 70 miles an hour is almost twice as rapid as at 45 mph. 3. Avoid sudden stops and "jackrabbit" starts. 4. Have wheel alignment checked and tires rotated before starting out on a vncation trip. 5. Remove any nail and small pebbles lodged between the treads. These may eventually cause a bruise that could lead to a blowout. C. rt'n'f. bump nftainrt or run over rrrbs. Drive rlowly over ;-o;icii tc.s. 7. If r-.u- v:.r 1 I.,- 'o 1 ar.; ! .. c . ..." n. . ' |