Pellontyre and Auto Centre

Good Infor­ma­tion about the Cor­rect Tyre Procedures.

Your car­a­van tyre pres­sures should always be checked and adjusted when the tyres are cold before the car­a­van sea­son and before every journey.

In fact Eric Roberts owner of Pel­lon Tyre and Auto cen­tre in West York­shire, rec­om­mends that own­ers of trail­ers and car­a­vans should remove the com­plete wheel or wheels and tyres and take them to their favourite garage or auto cen­tre and have them checked by a pro­fes­sional mem­ber of the team, this will ensure the safest pos­si­ble outcome.

The wheels will be checked for cor­ro­sion and the tyres will be removed from the wheels and checked for inter­nal cuts and dam­age, this is most impor­tant as unseen dam­age can become a night­mare sce­nario when going down a motor­way at sixty mile per hour and los­ing com­plete con­trol due to tyre failure.

The tyre dealer will then check the out­side of the for dam­age to the tread area and the side walls for cuts and cracks. Also impor­tant is to check the age of the tyre, this can be eas­ily done by an expert fit­ter. Tyres do become out of date after six years and are affected by age­ing in the side walls.

Cracks start to form around the rim area due to the tyres been stood in the Sun for long hours dur­ing the Sum­mer months and even­tu­ally the car­bon black, that is used in the man­u­fac­ture of the tyre, starts to break down and small but deep cracks start to form around the rim area and will even­tu­ally join up to cre­ate a very dan­ger­ous haz­ard, indeed this is one of the most com­mon cause for tyre blow outs on car­a­vans and trailers.

 Any tyreswith cracks and cuts should be scrapped and replaced with a new tyre .Finally if every­thing is fine the pres­sures and tyre valves should be checked to the cor­rect load­ing for your vehi­cle and trailer.

hav­ing his tyres checked before spring

 Another impor­tant point is to have the vehi­cle load­ing checked on your tyres, to make sure that the tyres con­form to your car­a­van or trail­ers rec­om­mended weight car­ry­ing capac­ity. Some of the larger heav­ier vehi­cle require more heavy duty tyres to carry the extra load­ing, your tyre dealer will advise you on the cor­rect fit­ments by advis­ing you fit either re-enforced or larger ply rated tyres.

.Finally to sum up you should have your tyres checked by an expert, try to stick to new tyres, load your vehi­cle and trail­ing vehi­cle evenly to give a more even weight dis­tri­b­u­tion across the axle and there­fore your tyres,make sure that your tyres have the cor­rect load rat­ing for the loaded weight of your car­a­van or motor home, and also impor­tant fix your­self up with a spare wheel that has a tyre to match the ones you have on the vehi­cle. Most of this is com­mon sense, but we still see piles of wood on the side of our roads in summertime.