Changing Ideals: Why There May Never Be a Perfect Tire Cheshire CT
With every tiremaker in the world making claims for their particular radial ply entry, beleaguered and confused consumers began to think of fiberglass belted tires as delicate and every bit as breakable as fine crystal. For their part, competitive fiber makers cranked out as much propaganda as possible blasting fiberglass, making consumers all the more wary.
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When I was working in public relations for a major tire company back in the early 1970s, an older scientist with an impeccable track record told me it was sad that he now had to spend his days working on the radial ply tire. When I asked why, he said, “Because we were just beginning to understand the bias-ply tire – what makes it work well and how we could improve it.” Although he was excited about his new assignment, the lines in his face gave away the years he had spent improving the bias ply tire. To some extent, the bias ply tire was the perfect tire for its time. But is there really such a thing as the perfect tire? How about the two- and four-ply polys that came OE on very fast performance cars of the early 1960s? What about the belted tires in the 1960s and early 1970s? Some of those tires were constructed with as many body plies that existed back then, including rayon and fiberglass belts. Was that the perfect tire? No, but it sure seemed like it at the time. Then came the radial tire, which Europe had been touting since 1948. Was it the perfect tire? No, but it sure seemed like it to the Europeans. As radial tire technology found its way into the research and development labs in our country, it was immediately recognized that those were the tires of the future. American-built autos fitted with 2-ply or 4-ply polys might hold up for 9,000 to 10,000 miles back in the 1960s, and that’s a generous number. At the same time, a radial p... |
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