Following simple car care routines is the secret to looking after your tires. But beyond monitoring your tire pressure and rotating your tires, there are other things you can do to make your tires ...

To get the most miles out of your tires, you should know what kind of tires your car comes equipped with. Sure, every tire comes with rubber tread, but not every tire features the same pattern or ...

Tire-tread patterns can tell you a lot about a car's overall performance. You may be familiar with palmistry, a category of fortune-telling based on interpreting the creases and lines on the inner ...

Selecting the right tread pattern for tires used on the often-hostile road surface of a construction site, as shown here on this dump truck, can help resist "chipping and chunking" caused by stones ...

Mixing tires is usually a touchy subject due to budget issues and availability, and it comes with a diverse set of risks and potential issues. For example, installing tires with different speed ...

Tires are round and black-what else do you really need to know? That depends on what you want from your tires. If your only concern is to roll down the road, you're pretty much done. But we're betting ...

The following was published in CCJ's Equipment Maintenance Toolkit, 8th edition, sponsored by Valvoline Heavy Duty. CCJ's Equipment Maintenance Toolkit is a complementary industry resource, courtesy ...

FORT MILL, S.C.—For more than a century Continental A.G.'s tires have been defined by greater performance and safety thanks in great part to tread patterns. And this year, the company marks a ...

Tread design subtleties, such as the complex zig-zag shape of the blocks as seen on this Michelin XDA Hypersipe retread, can improve traction by doing a better job of expelling water, mud, snow or ...

Not many companies have shaped the car tire in the same way Michelin has. Founded in 1889 by brothers Édouard and André Michelin in Clermont-Ferrand, France, the company has been responsible for some ...

You may be familiar with palmistry, a category of fortune-telling based on interpreting the creases and lines on the inner surface of a person's hand. Some folks will read the soles of your feet, too.