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Posted: August 05, 2024Categories: TyresMaintaining your tyres is essential for ensuring your vehicle’s safety, performance, and longevity. At ProShop, we believe in empowering our customers with the knowledge to keep their tyres in top condition. Here are our top five benefits of regular tyre maintenance and why it should be an integral part of your vehicle care routine.
1. Enhanced Safety
One of the most significant benefits of regular tyre checks is improved safety. Regularly inspecting your tyres for wear and tear, checking the tread depth, and ensuring they are properly inflated can prevent accidents caused by tyre blowouts or skidding.
- Tyre Pressure: Maintaining the correct tyre pressure is crucial. Under-inflated tyres can overheat, while over-inflated tyres can lead to decreased traction.
- Tread Depth: Adequate tread depth ensures better grip, especially on w
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Posted: August 05, 2024Categories: TyresChoosing the right tyres for your vehicle is crucial for ensuring safety, performance, and fuel efficiency. This guide will help you navigate the tyre market, providing you with the knowledge needed to make an informed decision.
Understanding Your Vehicle’s Tyre Requirements
1. Know Your Vehicle
- Vehicle Type: Different vehicles require different tyres. For example, SUVs need more robust tyres compared to sedans.
- Manufacturer Recommendations: Always start by checking your vehicle manufacturer’s tyre recommendations. This information is usually found in the owner’s manual or on the driver’s side door jamb.
2. Tyre Size and Specifications
- Size Matters: Tyre size is indicated by a series of numbers and letters on the sidewall of the tyre which includes width, aspect ratio, and diameter. For example 205/55R16 - 205 is the width in millimetres, 55 is t
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Posted: August 22, 2022Categories: Tyres- When the tyres are fully worn out visibly with no tread left on the tyre
- When the tyres are worn out until TWI (Tread Wear Indicator) which is set at 1.6 mm tread depth. TWI will be visible in the tread groves as a raised platform (image to be attached)
- When you have visible cracks, damages and irregular wear on the tyre (recommend to visually inspect your tyres on a daily basis)
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Posted: May 16, 2022Categories: TyresHow to Read Your Tyre Size?- Passenger Car Tyre - A 'P' or no letter at all indicates a passenger car Tyre.
- Width (Millimeters) - This is the section width of your Tyre, in millimeters, measured from sidewall to sidewall.
- Aspect Ratio (height/width) - This is the ratio of the height of the tyre sidewall, expressed as a percentage of width. An aspect ratio of 60, for example, indicates that the tyre's sidewall height is 60% of its width.
- Radial (construction) - This tells you that the tyre is a radial construction. Almost every new tyre built today is a radial tyre.
- Diameter (inches) - This is the diameter in inches of the rim of the wheel that the tyre has been designed to fit on.
- Load Rating - This is the load index of a tyre, also called load rating, and corresponds to the maximum weight the tyre is designed to carry. It can be found on the tyre sidewall, next to the
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Steps for Safety & Maintenance
01. Do a Daily Visual Check- Check that all tyres have about the same inflation pressure.
- Check the sidewalls for cracks or unusual bulges.
- Check for and remove any foreign objects (e.g. stones or nails) that could puncture you tyres.
- Use a proper tyre guage to measure tyre pressure.
- Check pressure and inflate only when the tyres are cold. (a hot tyre will show inaccurate reading due to inflation)
- It takes as long as 4 hours for a tyre to cool down so it’s best to check tyre pressure first thing in the morning.
- Your vehicle tyre pressure chart can usually be found on the driver’s door frame or in your owner’s handbook.
- Don’t forget to also inflate your spare tyre.
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Posted: May 16, 2022Categories: TyresEach tire on your cars support a different amount of weight, this unequal weight distribution causes our tires to wear at different rates. By rotating your tires, you can extend their useful life.
- Rotation preserves the balanced handling and traction of the tyres.
- Rotation will even out tyre wear.
- Rotation can provide performance advantages, like wet handling, braking etc.
What is the ideal frequency of tyre rotation? Pattern of rotations.
Rotation is recommended every 10000kms or even earlier at 5000kms depending on vehicle one is driving.
For Rear and Four Wheel Drive VehiclesUse -
Posted: May 05, 2022Categories: TyresWheel balancing can be defined as, the uniform distribution of mass about an axis of rotation, where the center of gravity is in the same location as the center of rotation. In other words, a balanced tire is when the mass of the tire, is uniformly distributed around the axle, or no heavy spots in the tire.
Why do my tires need balancing?
As we all drive our cars on beautiful roads of UAE sometimes we feel the vehicle body or the steer Wheel Vibrate and shake at certain speeds and all is well as the speed differs, the first line of defense is to balance the tire and wheel assembly.
Improper tire wheel balance may cause:
- Premature worn tires
- Damage to suspension & steering parts
- Unsafe steering, handling & traction
- Reduction in braking effectiveness
- Reduction in ride comfort and
- Reduction in fuel economy
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Posted: April 14, 2022Categories: GeneralRFID is Radio Frequency identification. It helps the buyer to identify the product information by exchanging the data with the reader using RF signals.
In UAE, ESMA (The Emirates Authority for Standardization and Metrology) has reaffirmed that each tyre for sale/Display in UAE must have RFID tags. These tags provided by ESMA to all legitimate importers of tyres will have full specifications like brand name, country of origin, tyre type, temperature rating, traction rating and treadwear rating. The tag incorporates an RFID chip inlay containing a code that is stored in ESMA database and are linked to the tyre details that are printed in the tag itself.
It helps the customer to choose genuine products provided with the legitimate information by scanning the bar code or either the QR code labelled on the RFID.