Show HERE J ARE SOME TIPS TICS ON OK TI TIRES i SAVE MONEY ON RUBBER COSTS COST I INFLATION I Learn the tho correct air pressure for tor your our tires tirca tIre and check It It- It with a gauge gauge every every few tew days Remember that tour I rounds loss ot of pressure tre In a a balloon tire Ure of ot a certain size for which the cor cor- cor correct pressure may be 30 80 pounds Is Just lust as all serious as the loss lollS pf two or three times that much tn jn i A high pressure tire lire of a corresponding corresponding corre- corre corresponding size sire OVERLOADING O Avoid overloading your tires Uree- tires and when it Is absolutely unavoidable able help the tire the to handle the extra load by putting In ii more air It If the overloading Is likely to be change your tires for larger ones RAPID R TREAD TRE WEAR Anything which causes a tire to drag with more or len lees side aide mo mo- mo tim Instead of ot running true will grind the rubber tr ad awa away luster futor than Is normal Check your car over today to see whether yoU are losing lire tire service because or of any ot of the various forms forme of wheel Irregularities These Include Irude Ir- Ir ude misalignment mis- mis misalignment misalignment alignment Improper camber wobbles wobbles wobbles bles etc and may result from froma frona i a abent bent axle a bent steering knuckle knuckle knuckle kle a loose wheel bearing a broken bro bro- broken bro ken spring a bent spindle or a arim arim i rim unevenly placed on a IL wheelA wheel A brake which drags will v cause caus rapid tread wear near also CHAIN A ABRASIONS See that your skid chains are not so tight that they gouge Into the tread and fabric carcase ot of your tire TREAD CUTS Sharp stones and Pieces olgIa of glass glan B tin or the sharp ahal I edges of ofa ofa ola a switch point will rut cut Into the toughest kind of a tire lire tread The flexing action of ot the tire enlarges such cuts Road dirt and moist moist- moisture moisture ure enter and eventually cause separation of the rubber tread from the fabric carcass of ot the tire Look your tires over o at least every week Clean such euch cuts cute and fm fill them with plastic patching patchin rubber which you may get from any lire tiro dealer SIDE WALL W WEIR WEAR Scraping a tire against curbs curb when hen turning a corner or when parking or careless driving over frozen rutty roads sometimes will wear ear the rubber oft off the and expose the tho fabric carcass Water Vater and dirt then enter and rapid destruction of ot th the tire lire re- re results re results suits Such sidewall Injuries on your tires ought to be repaired promptly by an experienced vulcanize canizer r RIM TROUBLE Take a careful look to see that your rims may not be caul causing you ou the tho loss of some service from flom your tires Slake Make sure that they are true so the tire lire runs rung without a wobble See Ste that the flanges are not bent or badly rusted which might cause them to chafe chat the sido of ot the tire TUBE TUDE CARE CARB The destruction of a tube of- of often otten often ten Is started when It Is being I applied through Its being pinched under the tire the tool or under the th bead of ot thu tire A little tittle care cale car Is II all that Is needed to avoid avol pinching In tires the flap should be carefully and smoothly an-smoothly smoothly applied A wrinkle will cut the tube causing a slow v leak lenk The lock nut on the valve alve stem should hould bo be be tightly screwed down AS should the valve cap Keep you your spare Ipare tubes wh where r they will wll not be chafed or Injured by bi grease or oil STONE BRUISES Probably no one thing causes tires to be scrapped before they have given full tull service more than thana thara a break or crack In the fabric body of ot the tire commonly called a stone bruise A bruise done Is 18 usually the result of the fabric Inside ot of the tire the being forced sharply down against the tho steel rim Most MOlt of such accidents can car be traced to your tires not be- be beIng being Ing sufficiently Inflated or your youl striking some projection In the th road at high speed Striking the tho th curb sharply when turning a corner corner cor- cor corner ner or turning aroun around In the th street is also aleo also responsible tor for man many stone bruises Usually the tire Uro can be saved It such Injuries ar are promptly repaired by a good canizer no nn |