A radial tire (more properly, a radial-ply tire) is a particular design of vehicular tire. In this design, the cord plies are arranged at 90 degrees to...
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rubber tires with suggestions including leather, compressed asbestos, rayon, felt, bristles, and paper. In 1946, Michelin developed the radial tire method...
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partly due to the challenge posed by radial tire technology, and the varied responses. At the time, the entire US tire industry produced the older bias-ply...
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omitted, it is a cross-ply tire The R in a radial tire may be preceded by an optional letter indicating the speed rating of the tire according to a deprecated...
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Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is an American tire company founded by Harvey S. Firestone (1868–1938) in 1900 initially to supply solid rubber side-wire...
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carriage Radial compressor Radial delayed blowback Radial engine Radial tire Radial, Inc., e-commerce business Axial (disambiguation) Radiate (disambiguation)...
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under the name Heung-A Tire Company. In 1985, Nexen dedicated a facility in Yangsan, Korea, to the production of radial tires. The company changed their...
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and other light trucks and SUVs fitted with Firestone Radial ATX, ATX II, and Wilderness tires. This became a formal investigation on May 2 (PE00–020)...
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Achilles Tire Falken Tire GT Radial Nexen Tire Nitto Tire Achilles Tire Falken Tire Nexen Tire Nitto Tire Achilles Tire Falken Tire Nexen Tire Nitto Tire Former...
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A tire iron (also tire lever or tire spoon) is a specialized metal or plastic tool used in working with tires. Tire irons have not been in common use...
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Bridgestone (category Tire manufacturers of Japan)
manufacture of radial tires, and it was also at this time that further domestic plants were constructed and fitted out. Its Super Filler Radial was placed...
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bias-ply and radial-ply tires. They had a wider tread than most other tires on the market then and used fiberglass belts. Conventional tires up to that...
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Retrieved 2013-03-27. "GT Radial website". "Primewell". Archived from the original on April 11, 2013. "Primewell Tires Review In 2023". TireDepth. 14 April 2023...
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A tire-pressure monitoring system (TPMS) monitors the air pressure inside the pneumatic tires on vehicles. A TPMS reports real-time tire-pressure information...
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Radial force variation or road force variation (RFV) is a property of a tire that affects steering, traction, braking and load support. High values of...
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Giti Tire manufactures a variety of brands of passenger car, truck/bus, and off-road tires for global markets, which include Giti, GT Radial, Primewell...
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Whitewall tires or white sidewall (WSW) tires are tires having a stripe or entire sidewall of white rubber. These tires were most commonly used from the...
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Michelin TRX (category Tires)
related TDX), is a radial tire introduced by the Michelin Group in 1975. It is one of the first volume-produced low-profile tires. Although technologically...
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Tire recycling, or rubber recycling, is the process of recycling waste tires that are no longer suitable for use on vehicles due to wear or irreparable...
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Goodrich and Uniroyal bias-ply and radial whitewall tires for collector automobiles. The company was originally a tire and service center founded in 1958...
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BFGoodrich (category Tires)
Goodrich Tire Company) by the French tire maker Michelin. BFGoodrich was the first American tire manufacturer to make radial tires. It made tires for the...
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The tread of a tire or track refers to the rubber on its circumference that makes contact with the road or the ground. As tires are used, the tread is...
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Tire balance, also called tire unbalance or tire imbalance, describes the distribution of mass within an automobile tire or the entire wheel (including...
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Seiberling Rubber Company (category Tire manufacturers of the United States)
companies who were quick to introduce the radial tire. The company was acquired in 1965 by the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, ultimately belonging...
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Contact patch (category Tires)
vehicle's tire that is in actual contact with the road surface. It is commonly used in the discussion of pneumatic (i.e. pressurized) tires, where the...
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by the supplier B.F. Goodrich. The radial tire option was discontinued after 1968. Pontiac did not offer radial tires as a factory option on the GTO again...
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Tire rotation is the practice of moving the wheels and tires of an automobile from one position to another, to ensure even tire wear. Even tire wear extends...
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global tire and car makers. These standards include the parameters of radial force variation, lateral force variation, conicity, ply steer, radial run-out...
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Uniform Tire Quality Grading, commonly abbreviated as UTQG, is a set of standards for passenger car tires that measures a tire's treadwear, temperature...
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A flat tire (British English: flat tyre) is a deflated pneumatic tire, which can cause the rim of the wheel to ride on the tire tread or the ground potentially...
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