Tread wear resistance

Internal and external factors combine to determine how long a tire lasts. They even can counteract the advantages of radial construction!

By: Jacques Bajer

Due to current economic conditions, many consumers today are delaying tire replacement, sometimes to the point that the steel cord belts are exposed.

This is the third in a series of articles about tire design by Jacques Bajer, president of Tire Systems Engineering Inc. In the first, he analyzed the causes of tire structural integrity degradation. In the second, he explained how tire rolling resistance affects vehicle fuel consumption.

From a pure economics standpoint, tread wear resistance is the tire property consumers appreciate the most, and this we know from consumer satisfaction surveys. Lately, however, I am not so sure that vehicle producers, in the process of selecting a tire for a particular vehicle application, take this into serious consideration.

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