All-Season Tires Sales, Installation & Repair
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CERTIFIED Mechanics All-Season Tires Sales, Installation & Repair
There was a time when car owners usually had two sets of tires. One set for spring, summer, and fall, and a second set for winter. Some had their tires fully removed and remounted to the rims while others had them mounted to a completely separate set of rims.
In 1977, the first All-Season automobile tire was introduced. As the name implies, the All-Season tire was created to provide adequate traction all year long, even in cold winter months, eliminating the need for the bi-annual tire trade-off. All-Season tires quickly became a consumer favorite. Today, over 95% of all new cars in the United States come out of the factory with them installed. When its time for replacements, an even higher percentage of car owners selected All-Season tires.
All season tires combine elements of winter and summer tires to create a tire that performs well all year long. All-Season tires have the larger tread blocks to maximize road surface contact like the summer tires. Like winter tires, they include slightly deeper treads with smaller grooves and channels that improves handling in light snow. Also, improvements in synthetic rubber compounds increased the tire’s optimal temperature range. Summer and winter tires can wear quickly when exposed to its opposite temperature range.
This made All-Season tires an ideal tire for many suburban and inner city drivers that have modern snow removal services. To get your All-Season tires installed, Give Ohio Autocare Cincinnati a call. We can quickly install, balance and mount your All-Season tires and get you back on the road.
All-Season Tires Sales, Repair & Installation
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All-Season Tires
All-Season Tires
Rubber is the ideal material for automobile tires. It can absorb significant impacts as well as support over a ton of weight, yet still retains its round shape. But winter has a unique impact on natural rubber that the other three seasons typically do not. When the thermometer drops consistently below 40°, natural rubber becomes more rigid and loses it’s elasticity. This makes the rubber more brittle and susceptible to damage and greatly affects the tire’s ability to maintain good traction.
When synthetic rubber became available, this enabled tire manufacturers the ability to make tires that were more durable and had elasticity for much greater performance in sub-freezing weather…but not in the same tire. The synthetic rubber that worked so well in cold weather quickly deteriorated once warmer temperatures returned. Increased temperatures made the synthetic rubber too soft and highly susceptible to damage and wear. Many drivers maintained two sets of tires, summer tires and winter tires and commonly switched them around Easter and Thanksgiving, depending on what part of the country you were in.
By the mid-70’s, US roadways were pretty well established, providing generally smooth surfaces for automobiles and trucks throughout most of the country. We were also getting better at removing snow from these surfaces. But a tire that could be used all year long remained elusive.
The first hurdle was expanding the tire’s operational temperature range to both extremes. Finally, synthetic rubber formulations advanced enough that in 1977, Goodyear introduced the first All-Season automobile tire. This All-Season tire had the larger blocks and grooves of the summer tires while also featuring the deeper treads and smaller channels and slits of the winter tires. Tired of the bi-annual season tire switch, consumers quickly embraced the new product. The tire performed well, but would struggle with colder temperatures and anything above a light snow.
But it couldn’t do all things great. In actuality, All-Season tires sacrifice some performance features of normal driving conditions to accommodate more extreme weather. The All-Season tire will perform adequately in summer’s hottest weather, but traction and control will be reduced relative to a dedicated summer tire. They can also be more prone to higher gas mileage and hydroplaning.
Many drivers still need or prefer the performance of a dedicated seasonal tire for a variety of commercial or personal reasons. But for many city and suburban drivers, All-Season tires delivers adequate performance that’s light on the maintenance.
All-Season Tires
Rubber is the ideal material for automobile tires. It can absorb significant impacts as well as support over a ton of weight, yet still retains its round shape. But winter has a unique impact on natural rubber that the other three seasons typically do not. When the thermometer drops consistently below 40°, natural rubber becomes more rigid and loses it’s elasticity. This makes the rubber more brittle and susceptible to damage and greatly affects the tire’s ability to maintain good traction.
When synthetic rubber became available, this enabled tire manufacturers the ability to make tires that were more durable and had elasticity for much greater performance in sub-freezing weather…but not in the same tire. The synthetic rubber that worked so well in cold weather quickly deteriorated once warmer temperatures returned. Increased temperatures made the synthetic rubber too soft and highly susceptible to damage and wear. Many drivers maintained two sets of tires, summer tires and winter tires and commonly switched them around Easter and Thanksgiving, depending on what part of the country you were in.
By the mid-70’s, US roadways were pretty well established, providing generally smooth surfaces for automobiles and trucks throughout most of the country. We were also getting better at removing snow from these surfaces. But a tire that could be used all year long remained elusive.
The first hurdle was expanding the tire’s operational temperature range to both extremes. Finally, synthetic rubber formulations advanced enough that in 1977, Goodyear introduced the first All-Season automobile tire. This All-Season tire had the larger blocks and grooves of the summer tires while also featuring the deeper treads and smaller channels and slits of the winter tires. Tired of the bi-annual season tire switch, consumers quickly embraced the new product. The tire performed well, but would struggle with colder temperatures and anything above a light snow.
But it couldn’t do all things great. In actuality, All-Season tires sacrifice some performance features of normal driving conditions to accommodate more extreme weather. The All-Season tire will perform adequately in summer’s hottest weather, but traction and control will be reduced relative to a dedicated summer tire. They can also be more prone to higher gas mileage and hydroplaning.
Many drivers still need or prefer the performance of a dedicated seasonal tire for a variety of commercial or personal reasons. But for many city and suburban drivers, All-Season tires delivers adequate performance that’s light on the maintenance.