B9 - Wednesday, April 20, 1983 - North Shore News

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Off with winter tires

The early arnval of Spring Motorists should store reduce atmosphere
marks the need for motorists mounted snow Ures unin- weathering and stress of

to replace their winter tres flated in sealed bags Ww — internal air pressure.
with conventional types.

Procastinators who wear
their winter treads into late @) U ALI VY
spring or summer face a |
costly and = possibly
dangerous situavion. p R E-O W N FE
Grant McDonald, a B.F.
Goodrich Canada Inc. VEHICLES
senior tire construction
engineer warns that winter
tread tires are not designed
for extended use on warm

paved surfaces. He says | UN DATSUN

winter tires, with their deep i 280 zx

grooves and heavy shoulders Auto. trans

build up heat more rapidly a

than conventional summer 1981

ures at highway speeds. DATSUN
“Heat is a ure’s worst ESCORT 260 sx “SL”

enemy. It can wear a tire out ? dr. sedan 5 spd trans.

in a very short ume,” he
says.

“The heavier tread design
is not as fuel efficient as a
summer tire either.”

Failure to properly store
and mark radial tires can
also result in reduced tire
life. Radial snow tire owners
should mark their ures “left”
or “night” pnor to removal
for storage to maintain the

same direction of forward ; HONDA
rotation when the tres are ESCORT ‘GL’ accord

remounted next winter. 2 dr. H/B Auto trans. 5 spdtrans
“Changing the normal

direction of rotation of a 1969
radial ture after it has been
‘broken-in’ by switching the vw 3
66 ’
tire from one side of the car BEETLE

to the other could result in

nde problems or less than 1978 1980
optimum = service,” says cee
McDonald.

: A aF corata |  TRANS-AM
onventional bias and pee 7

bias-belted snow tres need :
not be marked as they are NOR
normally rotated from one .
; ne NEWS photo Stearn bene side of the car to the other. DATS N

WORKING ON the ime of a 1912 Ameri Laf h hemical dtudded Dias and bias.

t engine of a merican rance ose Chemical wagon is studded snow tires should
Kevin Broadbent of Station 9 in Deep Cove. The engine is owned by local 1183 of the not be rotated from side to 1160 MARINE DR.N.V.
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