TYRES: ORIGIN

• WODDEN WHEELS:
(WODDEN TYRES, WODDEN TYRES WITH STEEL RINGS AND TYRES WITH
RUBBER CUSHION LINING)
• STEEL WHEELS WITH SOLID RUBBER CUSHION:
(STEEL RIMS FITTED WITH RUBBER LINING)
• PNEUMATIC WHEELS:
(USUALLY KNOWN AS TYRES,INTRODUCED IN 1920, SINCE THEN USED IN
ALL AUTOMOBILES AS STD. FITTING, CONSISTS OF TWO PARTS TYRE AND
TUBES)
 TYRES USED NOWADAYS:

MAINLY TWO TYPES OF TYRES ARE USED

NOWADAYS:
• RUBBER TYRES
• NYLON TYRES
 FXNS OF TYRES:

• CARRY LOAD.
• ABSORB SMALL SHOCKS.
• DAMP DOWN VIBRATION TO SOME EXTENT.
• TRANSMIT POWER FROM ENGINE ;THROUGH WHICH
THE VEHICLE MOVES.
• THEY ABSORB THE RETARDING FORCE WHEN BRAKES
ARE APPLIED.
• THE TREADS MADE ON THE TYRES GRIP THE ROAD
FOR BETTER TRACTION.
 TYPES OF TYRES:
• HIGH PRESSURE TYRES:
(BECAME POPULAR FOR CARS AND TRUCKS,GENERALLY USED FOR TRUCKS NOWADAYS,DUE TO HIGH
PRESSURE ROAD SHOCKS ARE NOT ABSORBED BY THEM PROPERLY AND ARE TRANSMITTED TO STEERING
AND CHASSIS.)
• LOW PRESSURE TYRES:
(USED IN CARS, DUE TO LOW PRESSURE IN TYRES SMALL ROAD JERKS WERE TAKEN CARE OF BY THE TYRES
THEMSELVES,DUE TO LARGER CONTACT AREA STEERING WAS LITTLE HARD BUT OVERCAME BY
PROVIVIDING BETTER STEERING ASSEMBLY.)
• EXTRA LOW PRESSURE TYRES:
(KNOWN AS BALLOON TYRES AND THEY ARE BIGGER IN WIDTH,USEFUL ON SANDY AND SLUSHY SOIL. USED
IN RACING CARS, TYRES USED IN TRACTORS AND HEAVEY EARTH MOVING VEHICLES COME UNDER THIS.)
• TUBELESS TYRES:
(NO TUBE PLACED INSIDE THE TYRES, THE INNER PORTION OF TYRES HAS A SOFT RUBBER AIR RETAINING
LINING WHICH DOES NOT ALLOW AIR TO LEAK THROUGH IT, RIM ALSO SPECIALLY DESIGNED, WHEN TYRE
PALCED ON IT THE AIR DOES NOT LEAKS
TYRE ROTATION:-
TYRE ROTATION IS DONE BECAUSE ALL
TYRES OF A PARTICULAR VEHICLE DO NOT
WEAR OUT IN THE SAME PROPORTION,
ALSO ALL THE ROADS ARE SLOPPY ON THE
SIDES WHICH RESULTS IN UNEQUAL
WEARING OF TYRES. FRONT TYRES GET
WORN OUT FAST BECAUSE OF DIRECT
CONTROL OF THE STEERING ON THEM. IN
SIX WHEEL TYRES THE REAR INNER TYRES
GET WORN OUT FASTER THAN THE OUTER
TYRES.
 TYRE ROTATION:

TO MAKE OPTIMUM UTILISATION OF TYRES,

THE TYRES ROTATED WITHIN THEMSELVES.

TYRES ARE ROTATED:

• AFTER 4000KMS FOR NYLON TYRES.
• AFTER 3200KMS FOR RUBBER TYRES.