If you want your tires to perform efficiently for a longer time, stay on top of the preventive maintenance procedures that AED Marketing Inc. in Pasadena has outlined in this post.

Key Preventive Maintenance Procedures for Your Tires

For Starters, Check Your Tire Pressure

When giving your tires preventive maintenance, make sure to check their inflation at least once each month to keep them properly inflated. Doing this is of utmost importance because tires lose approximately 1 pound per square inch of pressure every month, which means that, without proper monitoring, your tires would deflate over time. As you might imagine, driving with incorrect tire pressure leads to increased gas consumption, premature and uneven tread wear, and unsafe driving. Whereas adequately inflated tires can support your vehicle's weight effectively, underinflated tires struggle to carry the load above them; hence, the engine burns more gas to provide power to the wheels. Under those circumstances, the rolling resistance increases, and the tire tread overheats, consequently getting worn rapidly. On the other hand, high pressure makes tires stiff, minimizing their traction to the ground and making driving dangerous. Considering all the risks of driving with incorrect tire pressure, make sure to monitor their inflation regularly; to that end, look for their operative pressure in your owner's manual or inside the sticker in the driver's door. Once you know what their pressure should be, check on each tire by unscrewing the caps from their air valves to push a tire pressure gauge against them for a couple of seconds. This gauge will tell you the pounds per square inch (PSI) of pressure within each tire; if one of them is under or overinflated, correct their pressure by following your owner's manual instructions.

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Wheel Alignment

Do you know the importance of having your wheels aligned correctly? Each vehicle is designed to have specific wheel angles to be, ideally, parallel to each other and perpendicular to the ground. These measurements are intended to maximize tire tread life and improve the driver's control over the vehicle. Over months of driving through all types of surfaces, your wheels might fall out of their alignment angles, which, as you might imagine, negatively impacts your handling control, fuel economy, and tire-tread life. If, for example, you notice your vehicle pulls to the right or the left while driving, it likely means your wheels are out of alignment. In most cases, manufacturers suggest owners get a wheel alignment at least once a year; however, make sure to check your owner's manual to learn the servicing intervals for your wheels.

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Tire Balancing

Balancing the weight of your vehicle's wheel-tire sets is also critical to improving your tire performance and life expectancy. Altogether, tires and wheels are manufactured with minor weight imbalances; on top of that, rocks, mud, and dirt often gets caught into the tread of your tires, adding to the weight imbalance of each wheel-tire set supporting your vehicle. When the wheel assemblies become unbalanced, their rotation becomes uneven; making the steering harder for the driver; on top of that, the vehicle wobbles and vibrates when in motion; hence the importance of balancing your wheel-tire sets at least once every year, or as recommended in your owner's manual;

Tire Rotation

As mentioned above, your tires are subjected to overcome different types of road surfaces over months of use; consequently, the suspension inevitably wears out, the wheels' angles become out of alignment, and the tires' inflation varies in pressure. As you could expect, all those factors contribute to each tire's tread becoming shallower unevenly. Of course, irregular tire tread wear can result in minimized traction and poor tire performance, hence the importance of getting a tire rotation. This preventive maintenance procedure distributes tire tread wear more evenly by repositioning all tires; from side to side, from front to back. This service maximizes each tire's life expectancy so you can get the most out of each tire's value; plus, it improves your vehicle's traction and performance so you can enjoy a safer ride. That's why you should rotate your tires as described in your owner's manual servicing intervals. This procedure is required at around 5,000 to 8,000 miles in most cars.

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