{"id":4323,"date":"2021-01-07T07:28:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T15:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.doublecointires.com\/protect-tire-investment\/"},"modified":"2022-12-20T00:58:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T08:58:42","slug":"protect-tire-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.doublecointires.com\/es\/protect-tire-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Protect Your Tire Investment &#8211; 4 Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0201;\"><strong><em>We received this question recently on our Facebook page: \u00abWhat are the keys to maintaining new tires to ensure the best on-road performance?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p> <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p><strong>A great question. Tires are a big investment and you want to get maximum value for your dollar!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Four Keys<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The four key elements that contribute to the extended life of any tire are:<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.doublecointires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen20Shot202020-01-1020at2010.40.2020AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2020-01-10 at 10.40.20 AM\" width=\"300\" style=\"width: 300px; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">air pressure<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">rotation<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">mechanical maintenance of the vehicle<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">speed<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">While maintaining the proper overall maintenance of steer and drive tires is relatively simple and achievable, the overall maintenance of a trailer tire is the most challenging since trailers are frequently rotated or released in a route or during delivery change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.doublecointires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tire20pressure20gauge.jpg\" alt=\"tire pressure gauge\" width=\"300\" style=\"width: 300px; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;\">Air pressure:<\/strong> For every 10% of under-inflation in the tires on a vehicle, a 1% reduction in fuel economy will occur, which although small in appearance, is actually big when you multiply by tire positions, trucks in your fleet and miles run per year. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">By running a tire constantly underinflated by 20%, its tread life will be reduced by 30%, while 40% under-inflation will reduce the tire life by 50%; not to mention factors like: irregular wear, higher thermal and mechanical fatigue of the casing, lower retreadability and even premature failure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Rotation:<\/strong> The periodical rotation of the tire will not only prevent or reduce the inevitable irregular wear (camber, river wear, toe-in the front axle; heel &amp; toe, step-down in the drive axle), but will extend the life of the tires and will contribute to smoother, more fuel efficient performance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Vehicle alignment<\/strong>: This is one of the top contributors to fast wear, irregular wear and fuel economy in all the tires in the vehicle and is associated with other physical effects like the entire aerodynamics of the trailer with subsequent additional impact in fuel economy (2% or more).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.doublecointires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Add20a20heading.png\" alt=\"Add a heading\" width=\"300\" style=\"width: 300px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Speed<\/strong>: Rolling resistance increases with speed. For every mph (mile per hour) increase in speed above 55, there will be a 2% reduction in mpg (miles per gallon). Therefore a change from 55 mph to 65 mph will result in a 22% increase in fuel consumption while reducing only 18% the travel time. High speed also will end in higher thermal and mechanical casing fatigue, lower retreadability and potential premature failure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Today&#8217;s TBR tires, such as the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.doublecointires.com\/tire\/rlb400\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Double Coin RLB400 closed shoulder drive tire<\/a><\/span>, are engineering marvels! Get the most out of them by following these four steps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">{{cta(&#8216;a3adc2da-9e1b-4685-8245-4cc59bff2ebb&#8217;,&#8217;justifycenter&#8217;)}}<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disculpa, pero esta entrada est\u00e1 disponible s\u00f3lo en English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":4545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tire-maintenance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doublecointires.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doublecointires.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doublecointires.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doublecointires.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doublecointires.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.doublecointires.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doublecointires.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doublecointires.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doublecointires.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doublecointires.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}