Keeping up with your car’s tires is a crucial step in ensuring that your car runs as well as you want and need it to run. Here are some tips for recognizing tire trouble from Southcross Auto Service.
You Can See Tread Damage
It’s a good idea to periodically look at your tires to inspect the tread. This helps you to see the wear patterns and whether your tires are wearing down faster than you expected. You can also see uneven tread wear quickly, or even whether chunks of tread are missing. That can happen because of both balance issues and alignment issues, and it’s more common than you might think.
Or You Can See Other Evidence of Tire Damage
But your car’s tires are about more than just the tread. It’s also important to look at the rest of the tire. Does it look scuffed, scratched, or are there cracks forming? Those are structural issues that affect the integrity of the tire. Eventually that tire becomes too weak to do its job and you might experience a failure.
Handling Is Not the Best
How well your tires are holding up affects how your car handles. If your tires are experiencing wear issues or are not in good condition, that may cause you to have vibrations while you’re driving. It’s easy to chalk that up to a suspension or steering problem, but it could just as easily be a problem with your car’s tires.
Air Pressure Is Consistently Too Low
Are you putting air in your car’s tires more often than usual? For some people that might mean that they’re putting air in the tires every couple of weeks, but other car owners might be putting air in tires every other day. Both of these scenarios are bad news, honestly. You should check your tire pressure regularly, but if you’re having to put air in the tires every time you turn around, that means that something is not working right. The problem could be in the tire or the valve stem, but it needs to be resolved.
Need tire help? Give us a call at Southcross Auto Service in Savage, MN. We’ll be happy to inspect your tires for you and give you an idea whether they need replacing or just a simple repair. There could be several issues impacting the health of your car’s tires and we’ll go over all of them with you.
