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Dear Dub, Did you see the new 15 Series tires that were displayed at SEMA? I bet you're going to have fun changing them! Bob Holland The only ones that are going to have fun with those are the wheel companies who will get to sell more wheels...

Dear Dub, Do you know a good class action lawyer? My Mazda 3 just eats tires like candy. I can't get them to last more than about 10K miles before one of them is completely shot, worn on the inside or cupped or feathered...

Back in September 2007 I did a blog entry titled, Nitrogen: A Noble Gas? and it's time for a little follow up on how things are going. If you take care of your tires, if your rotate them religiously, keep an eye out that you're running at the proper pressure in your tires, etc., then you're not really going to notice any changes running nitrogen in your tires...

In the battle of curb vs wheel, the curb usually wins. This unfortunate specimen is the result of one such meeting. The inner side of the rim is slightly deformed and the outer rim appears normal...

Today's semi-unusual photo comes from one of my recent visits with my buddies at Tire Town here in State College. People are always coming in with leaking or flat tires that are skewered with strange items and this one was no exception. This poor fellow had his truck tire rendered unrepairable by a misplaced socket...

A lot of folks love the look of those low profile tires, and I have to admit that there are some vehicles that they just seem to look sharp on, but I doubt that I'd ever install them on a car because they're just not practical on a number of points. They're expensive, they wear out quickly, and most important of all, there are very few roads, especailly here in Pennsylvania, where you're not in danger of damaging a tire and/or wheel because of road irregularities or debris under normal driving conditions. My brother bought a new Audi a few years ago...

The snow tire police are coming in Quebec. A new law on the books requires all taxis and passenger vehicles to have snow tires on all wheels in Quebec between December 15 and March 15. This is causing a bit of a potential problem as tire manufacturers scramble to meet the forced increase in demand...

One of my buddies at Tire Town was at a tire seminar last week and he told me about this Bentley on Nokian snow tires. Here's the press release. Bentley Continental GT smashes world ice speed record 2 March, 2007 Oulu, Finland - A Bentley Continental GT, driven by four-times World Rally Champion Juha Kankkunen, smashed the world ice speed record last week, reaching an average speed of 199.86mph (321.65km/h) on frozen sea off the coast of Finland...

While I'm sure many of you are celebrating Father's Day today, and I'm certain a large portion of you recalling that today is the 793rd anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta, one of the key moments in automotive history also took place today. This was the day in 1844 that Charles Goodyear got the patent on the vulcanization process. Vulcanization makes rubber harder, much more durable and also more resistant to chemical attack, which is a handy thing for things like the tires on your car...

The things you see when you don't have a video camera. I was leaving the gas station, waiting for a break in traffic, and several vehicles were turning into the gas station entrance while I was sitting there. The curb cut for the entrance isn't exactly the smoothest you've ever seen, so you get a nice thunk as you go over the small step...