It’s common knowledge that if you take care of things, they last. For example, when you get regular health checkups regularly, it’s easier to avoid problems and concerns to stay in tip-top shape. Similarly, car maintenance keeps your vehicle running well and identifies any issues needing fixing.
However, regular maintenance and services while doing healthy practices may amount to nothing in the end when there is bad driving involved. Similarly, good efforts to care for a vehicle will come to nothing if it’s being constantly abused.
You may not know this, but you’re unknowingly doing some of these things that can affect your car tires negatively and thus lead to repairs when driving. It is important to realize whether or not you have had some practices that are damaging to your vehicle and how to avoid committing them, primarily for your wheels.
Driving Habits That Are Damaging Your Tires
- Vehicle Overloading : Cars usually undergo the most stress during long trips and when they are completely filled. These conditions normally occur during family outings and when going elsewhere. No matter how much weight your vehicle can take, if it is not really designed to do so, it is not a good practice to lift so much weight. Overloading your car leads to an unnecessary stress on tires, brakes, driving and suspension systems, increasing the interval between the car and the repair. Get information about how much your car can take from the owner’s manual. Travel as much as possible and empty anything from your car that is not necessary for daily trips to avoid expensive repairs.
- Hitting potholes or bumps at full speed : A third of car damage, it turns out, is caused by potholes. When you hit a pothole going too fast, you may damage or puncture your tires, damage your wheels, and then cause some problems with your suspension. This sort of driving can also make your wheels wobble, put cracks in your otherwise expensive alloys, and unbalance your wheels. In such cases, repairs and replacements are the only solution. The best-case scenario would be avoiding potholes and bumps on the road altogether, but that is not always possible. Leave slowly before reaching them, and in that way, the extent of possible damage will be minimized or even avoided.
- Skipping regular wheel rotation and alignment : Traffic, especially the bad kind, causes many troubles to the car itself. With a lot of kilometers to go and a lot of bumps along the way, the tires of your vehicle will ultimately wear out. Unfortunately, in skipping the wheel rotation and alignment lies a possibility of shortening its life. On the other hand, rotation provides some relief from this problem. This wears each other evenly instead of doing damage to each other, and it fulfills its use. Tire rotation helps to benefit the front as they are subject to more stress due to steering and directional control. Regular rotation and alignment usually improve tread life, vehicle performance and fuel economy, causing less repair.
- Sudden braking : An emergency stop may occur as a result of numerous reasons, including an unexpected shift of a stoplight from green to red at the very last moment or a quick turn in front of you made by another car. These may result in hard braking, which, if not efficiently controlled, can make treads wear out and brake pads and rotors wear down from hard and repeated use of the brake pedal while stopping. Keeping yourself concentrated and distraction-free while driving is one fine way to stay away from letting your tire condition go down, which would end up costing you expensive repair. It will save you from having an accident, thereby saving you and the other passengers on board, as well as pedestrians, from harm.
- Not routinely checking PSI : Tire pressure affects its functionality; Therefore, being subjected or overflat can cause improper road contact. Over time, it can cause premature damage. Therefore, it is important to check the pressure 2-3 times a month and maintain the pressure to avoid repairing unexpected flats. Tire pressure requirements vary by vehicle; However, most are between 30 and 35 psi (per square inch pound). If you don’t know how much pressure to put in your car’s tire, you can refer to your car’s guidebook or locate the sticker at the driver’s door post. You can also seek help from your neighborhood service shop.
Braving the road in your car entails many demands. Sometimes, drivers forget best practices and form damaging habits that are detrimental to your car’s health. But as a driver, you must be aware of these and correct them to ensure safety and maximize vehicle and tyre life. Maintenance and routine repairs and services will ensure that your car is running smoothly in its optimum condition as you enjoy a ride throughout he streets of Dubai.
