Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-20 | Page 27 | Owners Should Protect Rims

OWNERS SHOULD PROTECT RIMS Manager Oisen Gives Out Data Concerning Automobile Rims and Their Uses "Many motorlats, were they to axam-, In tlio wheels on their cars, would I be surprised to notice that their rims' aie bent along tho edges. These bent 'rim flanges aro ordinarily little, I thought of, yet, they cause a goodly, percentage of tire trouble," says J. E. ! laen of the OgdSH Tire and Repair' Co. "When the wheel hits a frog or a: switch of a streetcar track, there Is a tendency to flatten the rim. Its support, sup-port, however. Is esacntlat to the lift of a tlr If the rim Is bent so thut It doos not fit tho tire and allows tie side walls to 'bulge, the motorist may know that trouble la expected unless he lakes Immediate precautions. "Ben! rims are a direct cause of rim cuts, of tires blowing from tho rim. I 'and of tho breaking of tho wire cables I at tho base of tho tire, often timoaj motorists cannot understand why Urea! should blow' when they are driving i along slowly. The facts of the case are that tho overstrained carcass has r-ached tho limit of itjs endurance from: previous abuss and has given WOJr "By truing up their rims, motorlats, ; according to the Ogden Tire A Repuir Cutnpanv, may prevent tire trouble.. nd half the pleasure of motoring Is' freedom from tire trouble. A good rulg, to follow Is to have both tires and rims Inspected fortnightly. When rim trouble trou-ble ia found, It may usually be corrected correct-ed by careful tapping with a ball bam mer."