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5 Signs Your Maserati Is Due for Tire Change Service

In any case, your tire tread depth is one of the clearest indicators as to when you need tire change service. When your tires are new, they should have a tread-depth of roughly 10/32” or 12/32” – that’s roughly ⅓ of an inch. When the tread depth reaches 2/32” or less, it’s time for a replacement.

1. Diminishing Tread Depth

2. Vibrations When Driving or Braking

3. Your Tires Lose Air Inexplicably

4. Cracked or Thin Tire Walls

5. Bubbles and Blistering

THE IMPORTANCE OF WHEEL ALIGNMENT & BALANCING FOR SAFE DRIVING

Your car is a complex system of inter-working parts. When one of these parts is damaged, it’s only a matter of time until the other connected parts are affected. One such issue that can get out of hand rather quickly is incorrect wheel alignment. The alignment of your wheels affects your suspension and your tyre health.

What is Wheel Alignment?

Alignment refers to an adjustment to a vehicle’s suspension – the system that connects a vehicle to its wheels. It is not an adjustment of the wheels or tyres themselves. The key to proper alignment is adjusting the angles of the tyres, which affects how they make contact with the road.

What Causes Improper Wheel Alignment?

A common cause of a vehicle’s wheels going out of alignment is due to sudden impact when they hit something at enough speed.

Encounters with potholes and manholes without covers can seriously damage your car’s suspension, wheel alignment, and balancing, and will drastically impair your vehicle’s fuel efficiency, and more importantly, your safety.

Small collisions and hitting a curb can also take a car out of alignment, but because there is little visible damage, drivers tend to ignore them.

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Symptoms of incorrect wheel alignment

1. Car pulling to either side – To check if you have an alignment issue, take your car to a flat parking lot or drive down the centre of a vacant road and pay close attention to how your steering responds.

2. Vibrating steering wheel – Another sign that your alignment could be off is if your steering wheel vibrates at higher speeds. This can adversely affect tyre wear and lead to a flat or tyre blowout if not speedily addressed. You could also have a suspension-related problem.

3. Uneven tyre wear – Tyre wear and tyre health are greatly affected by misalignment. If your tyre-wear patterns are off-centred or one tyre is more worn than the others. One of the common causes of tyre wear is a lack of smooth rotation. A tyre that is not aligned creates other wear patterns to show up, such as excessive wear on the inside edge and/or the outside edges of tyres

What is Wheel Balancing?

Wheel balancing is integral to smooth driving, safety, tyre wear, and stability, and allows the tyres to spin without causing vibrations. It refers to compensation for any weight imbalances in the tyre/wheel combination. It is often performed in conjunction with wheel alignment. When balancing your wheels, wheels should always be balanced off the car, as the modern wheel balancer does both dynamic and static balance simultaneously.