Tire Safety
Tire Safety Starts with Tire Selection
- Tire Safety Starts with Tire Selection covers the basic guidelines that motorists should follow when selecting replacement tires. The video explains tire sizing and the importance of following the placard as well as the basic differences between all-season, summer, winter and all-terrain tires.
Tire Safety Starts with Tire Selection
- Tire Safety Starts with Inspection covers the regular inspection procedures that motorists should follow to check their tires for sufficient tread depth and irregular wear. The video also includes animation that explains pinch shock, which causes a bulge to appear on the sidewall of the tire after striking a pothole, curb or road hazard.
Tire Safety Starts with Winter Tires
- Winter Tire Replacement is another consumer and industry educational video that covers three specific areas:
• The differences between all-season and winter tires.
• Winter tire selection and installation procedures.
• The performance advantages of winter tires when compared to all-season.
Tire Safety Starts with TPMS
- Tire Safety Starts with TPMS gives a video overview of tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS) that emphasizes the safety benefits associated with a system that warns the driver when one or more of their tires are under inflated.
Tire Safety Starts with Proper Tire Repair
- Tire Safety Starts with Proper Tire Repair places a camera inside the tire so drivers can see what happens to the tread each time the tire makes a revolution. After multiple revolutions, the tire runs over a nail and viewers get a slow-motion replay of what it looks like inside a tire when a nail pokes through the innerliner.